That photograph, shared globally and always in the public d… - Bill Anders

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That photograph, shared globally and always in the public domain, has since served to educate and inspire: The Earth we saw rising over the battered grey lunar surface was small and delicate, a magnificent spot of color in the vast blackness of space. Once-distant places appeared inseparably close. Borders that once rendered division vanished. All of humanity appeared joined together on this glorious-but-fragile sphere.

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William Alison Anders (17 October 1933 – 7 June 2024) was a former American astronaut. He flew as Lunar Module Pilot for the Apollo 8 mission (although no lunar module was carried by the mission), the first mission where humans traveled beyond Low Earth orbit. This was the first crewed flight to reach and orbit the Moon. During one of the mission's lunar orbits he photographed the iconic image, Earthrise.

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Birth Name: William Alison Anders

Native Name: William Anders

Alternative Names: William A. Anders • Bill A. Anders

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I thought the American public was supporting Apollo not because they wanted science or even because they wanted exploration, they wanted to show those “dirty commies” that America [was still #1 technologically].

But sooner or later people will be able to buy a ride into space.

I’m not that famous, and I’m certainly not glib, so maybe I’d really ought to [get real] work for a living.’... [T]he shareholders at General Dynamics couldn’t have cared less whether I had been at the Moon or not. So it helped me some but not all that much.

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