"I don't know that I could spend a month on a desert island with Frank [Borman]; we might tear each other apart before it was over. I might get two weeks in with [Jim] Lovell though." When the ...

In that instant, Anders and his fellow astronauts, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, were not just explorers of the Moon but witnesses to a profound new view of Earth, never-before seen by any human.

In 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts -- Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, William Anders -- returned to Earth after orbiting the moon 10 times in a flight that helped open the way for moon-landing missions.

Frank Borman, Apollo 8 astronaut Newsman Walter Cronkite remembers the year of Apollo 8: "The whole 1960s really culminating in 1968 were the most terrible decade, undoubtedly, of the twentieth ...