Bill Anders took this photo from the far side of the moon and changed our world.
On Christmas Day 1968, the day after this image was taken, poet Archibald MacLeish wrote: “To see the Earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the Earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold—brothers who know now that they are truly brothers.”
The brotherhood and sisterhood inspired by Bill's photo will live on for generations. May he rest in peace.