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In December nineteen sixty-eight,

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three astronauts left Earth with a
destination

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no one had reached before: lunar orbit.

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Apollo Eight carried Frank Borman,

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Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders to the Moon.

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On Christmas Eve, their spacecraft became

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the first crewed mission to orbit another
world.

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Then the view changed.

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Above the gray lunar horizon, Earth
appeared:

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blue oceans, white clouds, and a small,

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bright home surrounded by darkness.

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Anders photographed the scene.

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The image became known as Earthrise.

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This was not the first photograph of Earth
from near the Moon;

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an uncrewed spacecraft had already
captured that view.

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What made this moment different was the
human perspective.

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They had traveled to study the Moon.

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The photograph invited everyone to look
back at Earth.

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A journey outward had given us a new view
of home.