Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Dec. 24, 1968, as Apollo 8 astronauts send messages of peace and joy from space. Editor’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of NASA's Apollo 8 mission, which was the first to bring humans to another world as they orbited the Moon on Christmas Eve, 1968. As their command module floated ...

All this year, we've been taking a look back at the events of 1968. It was a remarkable time in this country's history. It included raging protests, political assassinations and racial strife. But on ...