As Apollo 8 neared its target, the spacecraft was turned so that its rocket engine pointed into the direction of flight. Bill Anders would later describe how he first became aware of the moon ...

Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders was on board the ... On Dec. 21, 1968, a Saturn V rocket launched from Cape Kennedy with ...

from the Apollo 1 disaster to the breathtaking 'Earthrise' captured by Apollo 8. With the powerful Saturn V rocket ready, NASA stood on the brink of making history in 1969. Trump-Zelensky Meeting ...

“Earthrise,” taken by the Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders while in ... A schematic depicts the internal construction of the massive Saturn V rocket, with the first engine powerful enough ...

I can say with complete confidence that if [chief designer for spacecraft] Sergei Pavlovich Korolev were alive, we would have flown around the moon six months ahead of Apollo 8." Soyuz design ...

On February 6, SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy, the most powerful operational rocket system in the world ... "It ranks up there with the first Apollo mission. This is a pretty amazing thing ...