The View From Apollo 8
On Christmas Eve, 1968, astronaut William Anders peered through the small window of Apollo 8 as the spacecraft rounded the far side of the moon....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 9:28b-36.
On Christmas Eve, 1968, astronaut William Anders peered through the small window of Apollo 8 as the spacecraft rounded the far side of the moon. What he saw made him gasp. Rising above the barren lunar horizon was Earth — brilliant blue, swirled in white, impossibly alive against the black void. Anders grabbed his camera and took the photograph now known as "Earthrise."…
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