Apollo 8 Recovery

This montage depicts the flight crew patches for the manned Apollo 7 thru Apollo 17 missions. 

Silent video of the Apollo 8 Saturn V rocket launching into orbit

Apollo 8 astronauts and commanding officer of the recovery ship U.S.S. Yorktown walk the red carpet of the flight deck after splashdown recovery in the Pacific Ocean.

This NASA video details the first journey of men around the moon.

Astronaut David R. Scott, commander, standing on the slope of Hadley Delta, uses a 70mm camera during Apollo 15 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface.

In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space.

The Apollo 14 Command Module (CM) splashes down and two of its three main parachutes can be seen collapsing, as the 10-day mission comes to a safe and successful end.

This view from the Apollo 11 spacecraft shows the Earth rising above the moon's horizon.

Carrying astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., the Lunar Module (LM) “Eagle” was the first crewed vehicle to land on the Moon. 

This visualization of patterns of daylight and shadows at the Moon's poles over a period of two lunar days.

Explainer video on lunar eclipses

Rima Prinz is a channel carved by an immense lava flow. 

A close-up view of a portion of a "relatively fresh" crater, looking southeast, as photographed during the third Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA), on Aug. 2, 1971, at EVA Stati...

The Apollo 8 Crew included (L to R) James Lovell, Command Module (CM) pilot; William Anders, Lunar Module (LM) Pilot; and Frank Borman, Commander. 

This animation illustrates how the tilt of the Moon’s orbit often keeps it out of alignment with the Sun and Earth, preventing frequent eclipses.

Astronaut John Young, who walked on the Moon during Apollo 16 and commanded the first space shuttle mission, has passed away at the age of 87.

This photograph of astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, was taken inside the Lunar Module (LM) while the LM rested on the lunar surface.

A close-up view of the plaque which the Apollo 14 astronauts will leave behind on the moon during their lunar landing mission.

Discover the major focus areas for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter during its fifth extended mission phase.

Virtual tour of the Radiation Effects Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Animation of Moon as it travels into and out of the Earth's shadow, along with times at various stages during the May 2022 eclipse.  

Dunned in his space suit, Command Module (CM) pilot Michael Collins does a final check of his communications system before the boarding of the Apollo 11 mission. 

Discover how NASA is returning humans to the Moon with Artemis.

A close-up view of two components of the Apollo lunar surface experiments package (ALSEP) which the Apollo 14 astronauts deployed on the Moon during their first extravehicular activity (EVA).

The Apollo 7/Saturn IB space vehicle is launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 34 at 11:03 a.m. (EDT), Oct. 11, 1968.