First Earthrise: first color photograph of the first Earthrise witnessed by humans,21-27 December 1968

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed 1968, (NASA AS8-14-2383), with "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso (NASA/North American Rockwell), 20,3 x 25,4 cm

A superb printing in great condition of the iconic first color photograph of the first Earthrise ever witnessed by human beings.
Anders took this historic photograph of the Earth (240,000 statute miles away) rising over the lunar horizon with the Hasselblad 500EL equipped with the 250mm telephoto lens and color magazine 14/D looking west across the western shore of Crater Pasteur on the lunar farside.

[original NASA caption for the photograph] The rising Earth is about five degrees above the lunar horizon in this telephoto view taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft near 110 degrees east longitude. The horizon, about 570 kilometers (350 statute miles) from the spacecraft, is near the eastern limb of the Moon as viewed from Earth. Width of the view at the horizon is about 150 kilometers (95 statute miles). On Earth the Sunset terminator crosses Africa. The South Pole is in the white area near the left end of the terminator. North and South America are under the clouds. The lunar surface has less pronounced color than indicated by this print.

“There was nothing in the plan for an Earthrise photo. Indeed, we didn’t even see an actual Earthrise until, on our third orbit, we changed the spacecraft’s orientation to heads up and looking forward. As we came round the back side of the moon, where I had been taking pictures of craters near our orbital track, I looked up and saw the startlingly beautiful sight of our home planet ‘rising’ up above the stark and battered lunar horizon. It was the only color against the deep blackness of space. In short, it was beautiful, and clearly delicate.”
William Anders (Jacobs, p. 33)

From the mission transcript (photograph taken T+075:48:39 GET after launch):
075:47:46 Anders: Hand me that roll of color quick, will you...
075:47:48 Lovell: Oh man, that’s great!
075:47:50 Anders: ...Hurry. Quick.
075:47:54 Borman: Gee.
075:47:55 Lovell: It’s down here?
075:47:56 Anders: Just grab me a color. That color exterior.
075:48:00 Lovell: [Garble].
075:48:01 Anders: Hurry up!
075:48:06 Borman: Got one?
075:48:08 Anders: Yeah, I’m looking for one. 075:48:10 Lovell: C 368. [Anders is handed color magazine 14/D; 368 refers to film type, SO-368, an Ektachrome-type transparency film manufactured by Kodak]
075:48:11 Anders: Anything, quick.
075:48:13 Lovell: Here.
075:48:17 Anders: Well, I think we missed it.
075:48:31 Lovell: Hey, I got it right here! [In the hatch window.]
075:48:33 Anders: Let - let me get it out this window. It’s a lot clearer.
075:48:37 Lovell: Bill, I got it framed; it’s very clear right here.
075:48:42 Borman: Well, take several of them.
075:48:43 Lovell: Take several of them! Here, give it to me.
075:48:44 Anders: Wait a minute, let’s get the right setting, here now; just calm down. Calm down, Lovell.
075:48:49 Lovell: Well, I got it ri - Oh, that’s a beautiful shot.

Literature:
LIFE, 10 January 1969, ppg. 20-21; National Geographic, May 1969, ppg. 596-597; Newsweek, 7 July 1969, cover; Time, 10 January 1969, pg. 41; The View from Space: American Astronaut Photography, 1962–1972, Schick and Van Haaften, pg. 98; Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs, Chaikin, pg. 83; Airborne Camera: The World from the Air of Outer Space, Newhall, pg. 136-137; Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts, Jacobs, pg. 32; Apollo: The Epic Journey to the Moon, Reynolds, pg. 111.