Earth Rise
During 1968, the Apollo 8 crew flew from the Earth to the Moon and back. The crew, consisting of Frank Borman , James Lovell , and William Anders , were launched atop a Saturn V rocket on December 21, circled the Moon ten times in their command module, and landed back on Earth on December 27. The Apollo 8 mission's impressive list of firsts includes: the first humans to journey to the Earth's Moon , the first manned flight using the Saturn V , and the first to photograph the Earth from deep space. The famous picture above , showing the Earth rising above the Moon's limb as seen from lunar orbit, was a marvelous gift to the world.