Christmastime 1968. As millions of people prepare to celebrate, the Apollo 8 astronauts – Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders – are the first humans to orbit another world. And one of their photos will change their home planet.
Earthrise shows a white and blue marble, floating above the grey surface of the Moon. “It was like a firmware upgrade” to humanity, says astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. In the following years, there was an unprecedented shift in our perspectives. The first Earth Day kicked off the world’s largest environmental movement. Médecins Sans Frontières was established. The first catalytic converter for cars was invented.
It was an inflection point
