December 24, 2013. The 45th anniversary of the "Earthrise" photo, taken while astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders orbited the Moon in 1968, aboard the command module of Apollo 8 -- the first mission ever to leave Earth for another destination. There was Earth. Afloat in space. Seen not with color coded countries and political boundaries delineated, but only as nature intended: with oceans, land, clouds. We went to the Moon as explorers, and discovered Earth for the first time. -NDTyson
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