William Anders The most celebrated image of the Earth rising above the Moon's horizon. This is the first Earthrise witnessed by humans and captured in colour on camera. The view was observed by the crew of Apollo 8 at 75h 48m and 39s of the mission and during the fourth orbit of the Moon. Taken with a 70 mm Hasselblad camera, 250 mm telephoto lens, colour magazine 14/D Apollo 8, 24 December 1968 16.49 GMT Vintage chromogenic print on fibre-based Kodak paper, 25.2 x 20.5 cm (10 x 8 in), [NASA photo No AS8-14-2383], with A KODAK PAPER watermark on verso (NASA/North American Rockwell)Footnote: There was nothing in the plan for an Earthrise photo. Indeed, we didn't even see an actual Earthrise until, on our third orbit, we changed the spacecraft's orientation to heads up and looking forward. As we came round the back side of the Moon, where I had been taking pictures of craters near our orbital track, I looked up and saw the startlingly beautiful sight of our home planet 'rising' up above the stark and battered lunar horizon. It was the only color against the deep blackness of space. In short, it was beautiful, and clearly delicate. William Anders (Jacobs, p. 33). North American Rockwell was NASA's prime contractor and manufacturer of the Apollo Command Module.