NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection

Earth Rise

During the 1968 Christmas season Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders flew the Apollo 8 [ http://www.ksc.nasa…apollo-8.html ] command module From the Earth to the Moon [ http://www.w3.org/h…Literature/Gutenberg /etext93/moon10.txt ] and back (launched Dec. 21, achieved 10 lunar orbits, landed Dec. 27). The Apollo 8 [ http://www.nasm.edu…] mission's impressive list of firsts includes; the first manned flight using the Saturn V rocket [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], the first humans to journey to the Earth's Moon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], and the first to photograph the Earth from deep space [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. The famous picture above [ http://images.jsc.n…], showing the Earth rising above the Moon's limb as seen from lunar orbit, was a marvelous gift to the world. This was astronaut James Lovell's third mission. His last flight would be as commander of Apollo 13 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…].

NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/], Apollo 8 Crew

Frank Borman

William Anders

Saturn

Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Washington, D.C.

Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Earth

Moon

Saturn

Apollo 8

Apollo 13

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