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On Christmas Day in 1968, the three-man Apollo 8 crew of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders found a surprise in their food locker: a specially packed

Lucy passes on the Team's Christmas wishes and also looks back to the events of another Christmas - Christmas 1968.

55 years ago today in 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders put it all on the line to get America to the Moon ahead of the Soviets. 

The space race truly began to take flight when the Cold War heated up between the United States and the former Soviet Union in the 1950s.

On Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit and began circling the moon - the first time in history for humans to visit another world. That evening the crews ...

Dorothy Jean Locken was born in Bemidji, Minnesota on May 17, 1933 to Mildred and Rudy Locken and grew up with her two sisters on the family farm in Saum, Minnesota. She passed away on November 15, 2023, at Cornerstone Residence in Kelliher, Minnesota. Dorothy attended Firman community’s one room schoolhouse for 3 years. After the closure of that school she attended school in Kelliher graduating in 1951. As the eldest of three girls, Dorothy did a lot of chores around the farm, from taking car...

Was Apollo 8s iconic view of the Earth rising above the moon more impactful than the Apollo 11 moon landing? A historian digs into the details.

The impact of Apollo 8's "Earthrise" picture – the sight of the Earth from the moon – now seems even greater than that of the first landing.

The impact of Apollo 8s "Earthrise" picture – the sight of the Earth from the moon – now seems even greater than that of the first landing.

Philippine Canadian Inquirer Earthrise: historian uncovers the true origins of the ‘image of the century’ Science