HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Frank Borman — a former NASA astronaut Col. who commandeered the Apollo 8 to the moon — has died at the age of 95. Borman died on Nov. 7 in Billings ...

Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, wrote in his autobiography, "The NASA of more recent years got the idea that you could put almost any highly intelligent person into a spacecraft and qualify ...

In December 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders returned from history’s first voyage around the Moon with this stunning image. In the following weeks, on newspaper ...

Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman was a stickler for protocol. As long as things had worked before, he saw no reason to change them. He argued for fewer orbits around the moon, and fewer experiments ...

The Apollo 8 astronauts, (from left) Jim Lovell, Bill Anders, and Frank Borman, were the first people to truly leave Earth. In his new book, Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to ...

One of the most enduring and powerful images from America's space program. Earthrise was taken on Christmas eve in 1968 by Astronaut William Anders, Lunar Module Pilot. It is a vintage print in suberb ...

He was 90 years old. The Apollo 8 spacecraft was launched by the US in 1968 with Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders onboard. It was the first crewed spacecraft to leave the Earth's ...

As Apollo 8 emerged from the far side on its fourth orbit, crew commander Frank Borman rolled the spacecraft so as to position its antennas for radio contact with mission control. Looking to the ...

Anders gained global recognition as part of the Apollo 8 mission in December 1968. He, along with Frank Borman and James Lovell, became one of the first humans to orbit the Moon, completing ten ...