Next week marks the 55th anniversary of Apollo 8: the first mission to orbit the moon. It was manned by astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders - and they became the first humans to witness the phenomenon known as earthrise: the rise of the earth above the surface of the moon.
The photograph of the rising earth (take…
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