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[Apollo 8]

Bill Anders-Signed Earthrise Presentation

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July 27, 02:32 PM GMT

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[Apollo 8]

Bill Anders-Signed Earthrise Presentation


Chromogenic print on paper with glazing. 21½ x 17¾ inches in frame. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by BILL ANDERS: "To Bob - With Many Thanks For All Your Help + Good Counsel / + Best Wishes In Your New Career! / Bill Anders Apollo 8/USAEC / Dec '73."

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

THE FIRST EARTHRISE TO BE SEEN BY HUMAN EYES


A remarkable image of Earthrise taken by Apollo 8 Lunar Module Pilot Bill Anders after emerging from the far side of the moon for the fourth time. 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, an 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."