—Astronaut Bill Anders, who took this photo. Apollo 8 was his only spaceflight.
Looking back on the mission, his crewmate Frank Lovell said: “We often talk of going to heaven when we die. But in reality, don’t we go to heaven when we’re born? Because don’t we arrive on a body that has the proper mass that can contain water and an atmosphere? The very essentials of life? And don’t we arrive on a body that’s just at the right distance from a star that provides the energy, the energy to the Earth? And that energy is what caused life to evolve in the beginning.”
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