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Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman looks back at the landmark mission that reached orbit around the Moon on Christmas Eve 1968.

  Last week actor William Shatner, famous for playing Captain Kirk in Star Trek, flew into space onboard a Blue Origin capsule, making headlines all around the world. But Monday October 18th will be the 58th anniversary of a space mission not many people even know about - the flight of the first, and so…

Francis French says William Shatner's eloquent description of his trip into space stokes the imagination

During the Apollo 8 mission in December 1968, Bill Anders takes the iconic earthrise photograph. This image shows our world as a colorful oasis hovering in the dark void above the gray lunar horizon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969, achieve moonfall with the Eagle. Aldrin’s first words after stepping on the moon are. “Beautiful view.” Then Neil asks, “Isn’t that something? Magnificent sight out here.” Buzz responds, “Magnificent desolation.” These pictures and words convey the unforgiving and harsh nature of spac...

Generation Apollo: Coming of age inside America's space race By: CNN By Samantha Bresnahan, CNN (CNN) -- They are the names written in history books: Armstrong, Aldrin, Lovell, Chaffee, Bean, Cernan, Anders, Griffin, Carr. Their stories of NASA's Apollo program in the 1960s and '70s are the stuff of legend and lore. The telling has mostly come from the astronauts themselves, or members of Mission Control, and occasionally from the astronauts' spouses. But there was another group who had a front-row seat to history. This is the story of Apollo f...