Apollo 8 – Spaceflight Now

June 8, 2026

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Jim Lovell, Apollo 8 & 13 astronaut, dies at 97

August 8, 2025 Will Robinson-Smith

Lovell served as the pilot of the Command Module for Apollo 8 and the commander of the Apollo 13 mission. NASA said he died Thursday, Aug. 7, in Lake Forest, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

Spending Christmas in space

December 24, 2016 Justin Ray

A Christmas Eve reading from the book of Genesis by the Apollo 8 astronauts — commander Frank Borman, lunar module pilot Bill Anders and command module pilot Jim Lovell — from lunar orbit in 1968.