The ninth Saturn V lifts off in January 1971 to start the Apollo 14 mission. The first people to ride the mighty booster were the Apollo 8 crew in December 1968. Recalled Bill Anders ...

Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders was on board the plane that crashed near Orcas Island Friday, family told KIRO 7 News. Anders died in the crash, his son, retired Air Force Lt. Col, Greg Anders ...

The Apollo 8 mission lifted off shortly before 8 a.m. on Dec. 21, 1968, with the giant Saturn V rocket pushing them out of earth’s orbit for the 240,000-mile journey to the moon. That had not ...

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (WHNT) — 56 years ago today, the Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into space to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later. Apollo 10 launched ...

Apollo 8 was the first mission when astronauts could admire their ... The mission also involved the first manned launch of a Saturn V rocket, and was the second manned mission of the Apollo Program.

“It will be a step forward in how we tell the whole Apollo story.” And a big part of that story is the 65 F-1 engines that propelled 13 Saturn V rockets off the launch pad.