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Sad news.....
Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders who captured the iconic Earthrise photo while orbiting the Moon on a spacecraft has tragically died in a plane crash.
Anders took the photo (included below since it is a taxpayer-funded NASA photo and in the public domain by definition) with a Hasselblad 500 EL camera and a 250mm lens.
From the article linked below: "The first image was shot using custom 70mm Kodak Ektachrome black-and-white film. A subsequent photo was shot using color film. After the Apollo 8 mission had finished, Anders famously said: 'We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.'"
More details on the crash here:
petapixel.com

(Image in the public domain. Attribution: By NASA/Bill Anders - http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a410/AS8-14-2383HR.jpg,
Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=306267)
Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders who captured the iconic Earthrise photo while orbiting the Moon on a spacecraft has tragically died in a plane crash.
Anders took the photo (included below since it is a taxpayer-funded NASA photo and in the public domain by definition) with a Hasselblad 500 EL camera and a 250mm lens.
From the article linked below: "The first image was shot using custom 70mm Kodak Ektachrome black-and-white film. A subsequent photo was shot using color film. After the Apollo 8 mission had finished, Anders famously said: 'We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.'"
More details on the crash here:

Astronaut Bill Anders Who Took Iconic 'Earthrise' Photo Dies in Plane Crash
'We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.'

(Image in the public domain. Attribution: By NASA/Bill Anders - http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a410/AS8-14-2383HR.jpg,
Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=306267)