Apollo 8, December 21-27, 1968, orbit 4, 075:49:09 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC caption numbered “AS8-14-2384”, Technicolor Quality Control stamp and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso (the photograph was inverted in error when it was printed)
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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While the first Earthrise photograph was selected by picture editors around the world, this second photograph here is very rare. Remarkably the print was inverted in error by photo technicians at NASA KSC.

075:48:42 Borman: Well, take several of them.
075:48:43 Lovell: Take several of them! Here, give it to me.
075:48:44 Anders: Wait a minute, let’s get the right setting, here now; just calm down. Calm down, Lovell.
075:48:49 Lovell: Well, I got it ri - Oh, that’s a beautiful shot.
075:48:54 Lovell: 250 at f/11.
075:49:07 Anders: Okay.
075:49:08 Lovell: Now vary the - vary the exposure a little bit.
075:49:09 Anders: I did. I took two of them.
075:49:11 Lovell: You sure we got it now?
075:49:12 Anders: Yes, we’ll get - we’ll - It’ll come up again, I think.

“That was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. The Earthrise. Totally unanticipated. Because we were trained to go to the Moon. [...] We were trained to get there. So, getting there was the big event. [...] It wasn’t going to the Moon and looking back at the Earth. I never even thought about that!”
William Anders (Chaikin, Voices, p. 45)