There was unprecedented and unfathomable risk to putting three men atop a monstrous new rocket for the first time and sending them all the way to the moon. Here's a look back at the Apollo 8 ...

On the morning of Dec. 21, 1968 NASA’s Apollo 8 spacecraft lifted off atop a Saturn V rocket from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center on humanity's first journey to another world.

Apollo 8, humans' first swing around the Moon, launched 50 years ago today. Here's how it went down. The second manned Apollo mission was as successful as it was improbable.

The flight would be risky. ... Their safe return cemented the US lead in the space race and led to six successful landings on the Moon. Apollo 8 emerged from the moon’s far side on December 24, ...

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.

The Earth shines over the horizon of the Moon in this Dec. 24, 1968 photo shot by the astronauts on Apollo 8. Apollo 8 was launched from Cape Canaveral on Dec. 21, 1968.

News; Nation; NASA’s 1st flight to moon, Apollo 8, marks 50th anniversary Tue., Dec. 18, 2018 FILE - This Dec. 24, 1968, file photo made available by NASA shows the Earth behind the surface of ...

But without Apollo 8, noted George Washington's Logsdon, NASA likely would not have met President John F. Kennedy's deadline of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

Fifty years ago on Christmas Eve, a tumultuous year of assassinations, riots and war drew to a close in heroic and hopeful fashion with the three Apollo 8 astronauts reading from the Book of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s first flight to the moon is marking its 50th anniversary.

Fifty years ago on Christmas Eve, a tumultuous year drew to a close in heroic and hopeful fashion with astronauts reading from the Book of Genesis on live TV as they orbited the moon. Skip to ...