On Christmas Eve 50 years ago, one-third of the world's population listened for the first time to a message from outer space. A reading from the Bible's book of Genesis was delivered by astronauts ...
Jim Lovell, a U.S. Navy aviator, officer and astronaut who pioneered U.S. spaceflight and took part in a widely broadcast Christmas Eve reading of the Bible’s creation story during a 1968 NASA mission ...
In late December 1968, the Apollo 8 crew of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to leave Earth and journey to another world. They spent 20 hours orbiting the Moon, and ...