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This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories. Up next, a story I found particularly fascinating. It's called Earthrise. Here's the story. The year 1968 was by any measure a bad one for America.
Senator Robert Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King were assassinated that year. Race riots swept the nation. and America was being torn apart. by an ever-escalating presence in Vietnam. By all accounts, the event that saved 1968 from an endless barrage of bad news was a journey that propelled three men nearly a quarter of a million miles from the earth.
That journey to space and the iconic photograph that would come to define it, Earthrise, provided a moment of celebration, joy, and even hope. in a nation desperately in need of all three. How did one of history's most iconic photographs come to be? Ironically, the very forces that impelled America to send troops to Southeast Asia. Propelled America into space, our global struggle with our communist adversary.
The Soviet Union. America's race to space was set in motion when President John F. Kennedy commanded NASA to. but a man on the moon before the end of the decade. and before the Soviet Union.
By 1968, America was losing that race and perpetually seemed to be a step behind the Russian space program. The Apollo 8 mission, thanks to some aggressive updates and flight alterations, finally put America in the lead.
Okay. The Apollo 8 crew hurtled into space on December 21st. on a Saturn V rocket that stood over three hundred and sixty feet tall. The same height as a 36-story building, propelled by the nearly 160 million horsepower produced by its five F1 engines. and reach the moon in a mere three days, and on Christmas Eve Day.
We have Lazar. This stop at 7:51 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Once the spacecraft entered lunar orbit, it made ten complete orbits before returning home. It was on the fourth pass that the Apollo 8's flight crew Bill Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell witnessed what would come to be known as an earthrise for the very first time.
Here is Bill Anders talking about that moment years later with a NASA official. And you will also hear the real life audio of the crew back in 1968 talking about what they were seeing themselves.
So we were in lunar orbit. upside down and going backwards so for the first several revolutions. And we didn't see the Earth. And didn't really think about that. And then we write it ourselves, you know, heads up.
and twisted the spacecraft so it was going forward. And while Frank Borman was in the process of doing that, suddenly I saw out of the corner of my eye. Yes. Color. was shocking.
A blue and white ball. Just above the lunar horizon, 240,000 miles away. Uh Oh my god, look at that picture over there. Move the earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty?
You got a color film, Jim? And me and roller colour quick and this color quick.
So I managed to get Lovell to get me a color magazine. put the long lens on and started snapping away. We take several of them. There's several of them here. Give us the camera.
Let me just get the right setting here now. Just calm down. Calm down, Bubble.
Well I got it right. Oh, that's a beautiful shot.
Okay. Oh fair, very explosion will pick you up there. You sure we got her now? Yeah, we're getting around to him come up again. Without a light meter I really didn't know what to set it.
So I just uh took the uh f stop. And just took a shot, moved it, took a shot, moved it, and and uh And they really didn't think that much about it. That evening, Americans and the world, nearly one billion in all, Watched in awe as America's intrepid space explorers broadcast a live Christmas Eve message while orbiting the moon. What could they say after seeing what they'd just seen? That's an outbroking uh Leonard Sunrise.
And for all the people. People back on earth. Recruit of Apollo 8. Have a message that we would like to send to you. Bill Anders then started the largest mass televised Bible reading in world history.
as each of the three crew members took turns reading the first ten verses of Genesis. Days later, the negative that would become the world's most iconic photograph splashed safely in the Pacific Ocean on December 27th. developed and released for the world to see, Days not long after. Uh In Life Magazine's year and review edition, published on January 10, 1969, Earthrise graced the cover. Life also printed the photo on a double-page spread alongside a poem by U.S.
poet laureate James Dickey. Quote, and behold the blue planet steeped in its dream. of reality, its calculated vision, shaking with the only love. Years later, Apollo 8 crewmate Jim Lovell recalled the impact that moment had on the crew. During his speech at the Washington National Cathedral, during the National Air and Space Museum's 50th anniversary tribute.
to the Apollo 8 mission. Love will close things out with these words about the mission. And that iconic photo. that embodied it. It was the American public, however.
that received the greatest gift. After a year of controversy, Apollo 8 gave them a reason to be American. The flight of Apollo 8 can best be expressed. by a telegram received by the crew. It only said Thanks.
You saved. 1968. The story of Earthrise, one of the most iconic photos in history. Here on Our American Stories. Lee Habib here.
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