Directly f🌟romꦅ the Estate of Chuck Friedlander, NASA

A RARE FLOWN MEDALLION FROM APOLLO 8,💟 PRESENTED BY LUNAR MODULE PILOT WILLIAM ANDERS TO DIANE FRIED♈LANDER 

This medallion was flown by Apꦜollo 8 Lunar Module Pilot William Anders, famous for photographing the first Earthrise seen by human eyes after emerging from the far side of the Moon on their third orbit. Anders said of the incredible moment: "We'd spent most of our time on Earth training about how to study the Moon, how to go to the Moon; it was very lunar oriented. And yet, when I looked up and saw the Earth coming up on this very stark, beat-up lunar horizon, and Earth that was the only color that we could see, a very fragile-looking Earth, a very delicate looking Earth, I was immediately almost overcome by the thought that here we came all this way to see the Moon, and yet the most significant thing we're seeing is our own home planet, the Earth." (Poole) 

Anders presented this flown Robbins medallion to Diane Friedlander, Chuck Friedlander’s wife. Chuck Friedlander served as Chief at the NASA Astronaut Support Office, KSC from 1963-1967, leaving shortly after the Apollo 1 tragedy for CBS News where he was Walter Cronkite’s Space🗹 Technical Consultant from 1967-1969. Anders invited Friedlander to join him in Washington as his Executive Assistant when he served as Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council (NASC) at the White House, from 1969-1972. Friedlander also served as Vice President of the Board of Directors for the International Aerospace🐎 Hall of Fame, San Diego, CA from 1973-1980.  

LITERATURE 

Poole, Robert. Earthrise: Ho💖w Man First Saw the Earth, p. 2; Schick and Van Haaften, The View From Space: American Astronaut Photography 1962-1972, p. 98.