Who took the famous Earthrise photograph during Apollo 8?

Who took the famous Earthrise photograph during Apollo 8? William Anders took it.

The image was captured on December 24, 1968, during Apollo 8’s fourth orbit around the Moon. Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell were the first humans to see Earth rise above the lunar horizon in person, although the event was not planned as a formal photographic objective.

A common mix-up credits mission commander Frank Borman, partly because Borman later recalled taking an Earthrise image and the famous photograph was sometimes mislabeled. Analysis of the mission transcript, film, and cloud patterns established that Anders took the celebrated color image, along with the related black-and-white photographs.

Apollo 8 was the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon. Anders used a modified Hasselblad camera and 70-millimeter color film; the resulting picture became an iconic image of Earth’s isolation and helped shape environmental thinking. Earthrise is generally not visible from most fixed locations on the lunar surface because the Moon is tidally locked to Earth.