Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will pilot the Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station, launching from Kennedy ...

The Axiom-4 mission to the ISS, now launching June 8, features India's Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla as pilot, marking a ...

Stay tuned as we greet the station's newest crew members; coverage starts at 7am ... out jointly by the US and the Soviet Union saw an Apollo and a Soyuz dock in space. That mission, which ...

The crew then orbited 10 times over about 20 hours, during which they made the famous Christmas Eve broadcast. An illustration from Popular Science in March 1968, depicting the Apollo 8 mission.

After groundbreaking success with the Mercury and Gemini missions, NASA was rocked by the Apollo 1 disaster, in which all three crew members (Gus ... the launch of Apollo 8 aboard the mighty ...

Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin accompanied the three NASA crew members. Russia's space agency ... They were returning to Earth at the end of the Apollo-Soyuz mission, in which they docked ...

Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969 ... Nixon and the Apollo 13 crew members pay honor to the United States flag during the post ...

He is currently the last surviving member of the crew ... died in training or space mission accidents. In 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 — featuring Air Force pilots Frank Borman and William ...

Anders retired in 1993 and remained Chairman of the Board until May 1994 when he fully retired. “In 1968, as a member of the Apollo 8 crew, as one of the first three people to travel beyond the reach ...

Here we came all the way to the moon to discover Earth.” Together, the Apollo 8 crew members—Anders, Lovell and Borman—were named the Time magazine “Men of the Year” for 1968.

Picture: NASA / AFP A member of the Apollo 8 mission in December 1968, Anders became one of the first humans to reach the Moon, along with fellow Americans Frank Borman and James Lovell. The crew ...