On Christmas Eve 50 years ago, one-third of the world's population listened for the first time to a message from outer space. A reading from the Bible's book of Genesis was delivered by astronauts ...

While at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, last week, I was recently invited to attend a NASA retiree ‘beer keg of the month’ get together. These guys have been doing this since the early 60s ...

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A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. December 1968 was a difficult time for many in the world, as war and hostages, riots and assassinations drew our ...

The year 1968 was by all measures a terrible one for America. Two of our nation's leaders were assassinated—Senator Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Following King's murder, a series of riots ...

"The systems work! Holy smokes! We can fly around the moon." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's first moon commander in ...

The broadcasts from Apollo 8 invited huge television audiences onboard the spacecraft. The astronauts showed how things worked in the capsule and performed a memorable Christmas Eve reading. But the ...

Fifty years ago, a world wracked by war and division watched as three of its own became the first to enter lunar orbit and transmit an unexpected Christmas Eve gift: Wonderment. Apollo 8 astronauts ...

Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8's historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year, has died. He was 95. Borman died ...

1968 was a year desperately in need of a Merry Christmas. The year had seen student protests worldwide, the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War, a chaotic Democratic National Convention, the ...

It’s hard to believe it was half a century ago. Really hard. On Dec. 21, 1968, a gleaming white rocket, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty, lifted off from Cape Kennedy on a six-day mission ...

(Reuters) -Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed "Earthrise" photo during NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968, died on Friday in ...