Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8 the first manned mission to the moon The US space program suffered a bitter setback when Apollo 1 ended in a deadly fire during a ...

Apollo 13 was nominated for nine Academy Awards, but for director Ron Howard, the real test was showing the film to the astronauts themselves. (02:08) Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content ...

He explained: "Hours were spent with the lunar crews, including the Apollo 8 crew, in briefing on exactly how to set up the camera, which film to use … these briefings were most comprehensive." ...

Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, wrote in his autobiography, "The NASA of more recent years got the idea that you could put almost any highly intelligent person into a spacecraft and qualify ...

A representative of sci-fi in contemporary China, Liu, 61, has written 40 short stories and seven novels, including the ...

The film is a fresh take on the oft-told story, particularly in the shadow of Ron Howard’s celebrated 1995 dramatisation, 'Apollo 13'. Despite being deeply entrenched in space lore, Middleton's ...

That forced NASA to make Apollo 8 a scouting party — and the first crewed mission to orbit the moon. The main task was to photograph and film the terrain, study the lunar surface composition and ...

Next, you can see Apollo, 27, in the much-anticipated Luca Guadagnino film, Queer, alongside the likes of movie star Daniel Craig. As the son of Mexican immigrants and growing up in the Midwest of ...

Eight students from Owensboro's sister city in the Czech Republic will spend time getting experience as an American student.