Apollo 8 photographs Earthrise
Date as reported
Apollo 8’s crew photographed Earth rising above the lunar horizon.
- Type
- human spaceflight
- Category
- human spaceflight
- Mission
- Apollo 8
- Programme
- Apollo
- Organization
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Destination
- moon
- Target body
- Moon
- Country
- US
Sources and attribution
- NASA — 60 moments in NASA history (opens in a new tab) — Factual summary; source attribution retained.