[Apollo 8]

Earthrise as viewed from the CSM

Color photograph, 16 x 20 in., SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Mission Commander James Lovell: "03:00:04:46 / The range from here is outstanding. / I wish we had the TV still going / because the brown area is darker / We have just passed over the / Sea of Fertility, and the MARE is darker… / Bills got the 16mm going for us, / James Lovell / Apollo 8 CSM"

An alternate viewꦛ of the iconic "Earthrise" captured by William Anders aboard Apollo 8, here with the spacecraft window visible. "There was nothing in the plan for an Earthrise photo," Anders noted. "Indeed, we didn’t even see an actual Earthrise until, on our third orbit, we changed the spacecraft’s orientation to heads up and looking forward. As we came 'round the back side of the moon, where I had been taking pictures of craters near our orbital track, I looked up and saw the startlingly beautiful sight of our home planet 'rising' up above the stark and battered lunar horizon. It was the only color against the deep blackness of space. In short, it was beautiful, and clearly delicate."