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Earth Rise December 25, 1968
Explanation: During the 1968 Christmas season Frank Borman,
James Lovell, and William Anders flew the
Apollo 8 command module
From the Earth to the Moon and back (launched Dec. 21, achieved 10
lunar orbits, landed Dec. 27).
The Apollo 8
mission's impressive list of firsts includes; the first manned flight
using the Saturn
V rocket, the first humans to journey to the Earth's
Moon, and the
first to photograph the
Earth from deep
space.
The
famous picture above, showing the Earth rising above the Moon's limb
as seen from lunar orbit, was a marvelous gift to the world. This was
astronaut James Lovell's third mission. His last flight would be as
commander of
Apollo 13. Click here to hear what Frank Borman had to say when he first viewed this magnificent sight! (What a powerful message to planet earth! It is to our shame that he would not be able to read this beautiful tribute to our world and to God in our day and time and age of political correctness. - webmaster)
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