So before the mission, he told NASA that Apollo 8 would be his last mission. He knew his crew's first-ever ride on a Saturn V rocket was also going to be his last. The job was as good as done ...

Apollo 8’s astronauts were the first to witness Earthrise from lunar orbit, on Christmas Eve in 1968. (NASA Photo / Bill Anders) It’s been 50 years to the day since Apollo 8 astronaut Bill ...

To get astronauts to the Moon, Nasa had to build the most powerful rocket ever flown successfully. The Saturn V was just the rocket for the job. 111: Height of Saturn V rocket in metres On 16 July ...

On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were strapped into their Apollo spacecraft on top of the vast Saturn V rocket and ... was," Apollo 8 astronaut Frank ...

The Apollo missions were the answer to a challenge issued by President John F. Kennedy to put a man on the moon. But just to get there, scientists had to build a powerful rocket. And to actually ...

About two weeks before the Apollo 11 mission was launched to the moon, Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman was ... On July 3, the secret moon rocket known as the N-1 had exploded in a fireball at ...

It’s been almost a year since Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos unveiled pieces of the Saturn V rocket engines that propelled Apollo’s astronauts to the moon – and now you can watch a video ...