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Apollo 8’s astronauts were the first to witness Earthrise from lunar orbit, on Christmas Eve in 1968. (NASA Photo / Bill Anders) It’s been 50 years to the day since Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders’ ...

FLORIDA, USA — On this day in 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts witnessed something humans had never seen before — an "Earthrise." Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders captured the iconic ...

June 7 (Reuters) - Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed "Earthrise" photo during NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968, died on ...

A superb printing with vivid colors of the iconic first color photograph of the first Earthrise ever witnessed by human beings. William Anders took this historic photograph of the Earth (240,000 ...