Forty-Fifth Anniversary of 'Earthrise' Image
Forty-five years ago, in December of 1968, the Apollo 8 crew flew from the
Earth to the Moon and back again. Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders
were launched atop a Saturn V rocket on Dec. 21, circled the Moon ten times in
their command module, and returned to Earth on Dec. 27. The Apollo 8 mission's
impressive list of firsts includes: the first humans to journey to the Earth's
Moon, the first to fly using the Saturn V rocket, and the first to photograph
the Earth from deep space. As the Apollo 8 command module rounded the far side
of the Moon on Dec. 24, the crew could look toward the lunar horizon and see the
Earth appear to rise, due to their spacecraft's orbital motion. Their famous
picture of a distant blue Earth above the Moon's limb was a marvelous gift to
the world.
Image Credit: NASA
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Guillermo Gonzalo Sánchez Achutegui
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