Apollo missions

This picture, taken by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, is one of the most famous images ever photographed in space. It shows the earth rising against the barren lunar landscape on the first human mission to the moon in 1968.

NASA astronaut Bill Anders, who took famous photo of Earth during Apollo, dies at 90

Russell Lewis

Awestruck, Anders snapped the timeless shot of the glorious blue and white planet rising over the horizon of the gray and lifeless moon, and "how tiny and fragile and precious and finite it is."

Fifty years ago, astronauts left the first human footprints on the moon. Today, space continues to inspire.

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Gene Cernan prepares for his 1969 Apollo 10 flight, adjusting his headset outside a lunar module simulator.

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