NASA; Apollo 8.

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Earthrise. Red number photograph AS8-14-2383. The first colour photograph of our planet taken by a human, photographed by William Anders on 24 December 1968 during the first manned voyage to orbit the Moon. It is considered the most influential environmental photograph ever taken. It is accompanied by two variant Earthrises, photographed moments later.Anders, the lunar module pilot for Apollo 8, captured the iconic image on Christmas Eve using a hand-held 70 mm Hasselblad camera. He recalled that, in order to make the shot, he "deviated from the rigid NASA flight plan. Every photographic exposure had been determined in advance but I had to capture our view with the long lens on colour film. One of those shots became known as Earthrise". The spacecraft and its three astronauts - Anders, Frank Borman, and James Lovell - splashed down in the Pacific on 27 December. The film was processed two days later.The image of the Earth rising over the barren lunar horizon quickly circulated around the world. It is "widely credited for helping to spur the environmental movement and for influencing scientific and ecological theories, such as Lovelock and Margulis's Gaia Hypothesis... Since its release, Earthrise has not only continued to rank high on lists of era-defining images, but has also become a common representational stand-in for environmental and planetary stewardship. Showing up on NASA-endorsed stamps and influential magazines such as Life and Time, as well as in countercultural t

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