58 Years After ‘Earthrise,’ NASA’s New Moonshot May Rediscover Earth

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It was morning in the universe. On Earth, it was Christmas Eve of 1968, a time of renewal. So it was for Frank Borman, William Anders and James Lovell, the crew of Apollo 8, who were farther from home than any humans had ever been.

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Photos of the Earth taken by William A. Anders on the same camera roll as the iconic “Earthrise” image.

President Lyndon B. Johnson watched Apollo 8 coverage from the White House on Dec. 27.

Launch Control for Apollo 8 at Kennedy; photographs of the moon from the mission.

Monuments honor the Apollo program at Space View Park in Titusville, Fla.; members of the Artemis II lunar science team at touchscreen table in the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The Artemis II rocket; the mission’s crew, from left: Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman.