The story of William Anders' iconic Earthrise image, which helped to spur Earth Day and the environmental movement ...

When I delved deeper into the photo archives from Apollo 8, one added wrinkle awaited me: The iconic color image wasn’t the first Earthrise photo, as most people assumed. Just before he saw ...

The iconic Earthrise image of our planet rising above the lunar horizon, taken in 1968 by astronauts aboard the Apollo 8 mission, is widely credited with fueling the environmental movement that led to ...

One of the most enduring and powerful images from America's space program. Earthrise was taken on Christmas eve in 1968 by Astronaut William Anders, Lunar Module Pilot. It is a vintage print in suberb ...

Widely acknowledged as one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence, the "Blue Marble" was ...

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the ...

WASHIGTON: William Anders, the astronaut who captured the iconic "Earthrise" photograph during the historic Apollo 8 mission, died in a plane crash on Friday at the age of 90, according to his family.

Unlike Earthrise, the seminal photograph of a partial Earth with the Moon in the foreground taken by Apollo 8 in 1968, Marble shows the planet in all its spherical glory, thanks to a flight plan ...

The colour photograph of Earthrise - taken by Apollo 8 astronaut, William A. Anders, December 24, 1968. Although the photograph is usually mounted with the moon below the earth, this is how Anders ...

This image of Buzz Aldrin’s bootprint from the Apollo 11 mission symbolizes a significant moment in history when humans first walked on the Moon on July 20, 1969. It reflects humanity’s ...

The former Apollo 8 astronaut best known for taking the iconic ''Earthrise'' photo, who died last month while piloting a plane over the waters off Washington state, was doing a flyby near a friend ...

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when ...