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Earthrise

Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968. That evening, the astronauts--Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders--held a live broadcast from lunar orbit, in which they showed pictures of the Earth and moon as seen from their spacecraft. Said Lovell, «The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.» They ended the broadcast with the crew taking turns reading from the book of Genesis.

Image Credit: NASA

Taken by Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders on December 24, 1968, at mission time 075:49:07, [1](16:40UTC) while in orbit around the Moon, showing the Earth rising for the third time above the lunar horizon. The land mass visible just above the terminator line is west Africa.

The lunar horizon is approximately 780 kilometers from the spacecraft. Height of the photographed area at the lunar horizon is about 175 kilometers. [1]