“Here was something that was different. Absolutely not briefed on. Nobody had told us on the ground [that] the earth was going to come up.”
Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders took this photo — “Earthrise” — on December 24, 1968.
Learn more about CHASING THE MOON: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chasing-moon/
