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5 days ago · The crew of NASA's Apollo 8 mission: James Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman. Interim Archives via Getty Images Anders, a retired major general, has said the photo was his most significant contribution to the space program along with making sure the Apollo 8 command module and service module worked.
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2 days ago · NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with retired astronaut Terry Virts about what the Boeing Starliner astronauts might going through being in space longer than they thought they would be.
3 days ago · Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, [1] the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module.
2 days ago · Before the flight, Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman contacted USIA Science Advisor Simon Bourgin for guidance on composing an appropriate message for the global audience that would be tuning into the first telecast from the Moon.
5 days ago · WASHINGTON: Frank Borman, the NASA astronaut who led the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon, has died at the age of 95, the US space agency said Thursday. He passed away on November 7 in Billings, Montana.
1 day ago · Astronaut Walter Schirra, center, checks out his spacecraft’s camera equipment with Paul Becker of McDonnell and Roland Williams of RCA. Meanwhile, a second Hasselblad with an 80mm lens was mounted in Borman’s front-facing “rendezvous” window, photographing the lunar surface using an automatic timer that took a new picture every twenty ...
4 days ago · The launch of Gemini 7 went as planned, and the crew began what became a long, uncomfortable ordeal. NASA had always intended this flight to push the boundaries and keep the crew in orbit for fourteen days. Borman and Lovell were going to spend that time in a space optimistically described as being as big as the front seats of Volkswagen Beetle.
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