Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo program.

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla – Before the rockets. Before the moon landings. There were the names. NASA’s most famous lunar program, Apollo, was named after the Greek god of the sun — a symbol of light, ...

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Salvador Aleguas Jr., 91, of Melbourne, Florida, passed away peacefully in his sleep on April 2, 2026. Born on November 6, 1934, in Colón, Republic of Panama, to Salvador Aleguas and Hilda Aleguas, ...

Orion is on its way home. The Artemis II crew is splashing down in the Pacific Ocean this evening, and they’ll have an easier time reacclimating to Earth than some of their lunar predecessors. Related ...

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On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo program. It was also the first mission to bring humans to the moon. It lifted ...

The Apollo 13 mission was to land on the moon for a third, but it soon turned into a rescue mission. An oxygen tank exploded aboard the spacecraft, causing both the crew on board and ground control to ...