NASA astronaut Bill Anders took this iconic image of Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon on December 24, 1968.

The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old, dating to the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 that carried Soviet ...

As an astronaut, Lovell had several missions that make up the fabric of historic firsts. He was a part of the Gemini 12 mission, which was his favorite mission, and Apollo 8, where he and his ...