Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell's vacation home on LBJ Lake in Horseshoe Bay, TX, is on the market for... [+] $3. 5 million. (Courtesy of Tammie Bennett, Sotheby's) JC: On Apollo 8 in 1968, how was it that Bill Anders, the junior crewmember, managed to take the iconic Earthrise photo? JL: At the beginning of the flight, he was designated as the camera guy. When the Earth came up from the lunar horizon, I was the first one to really look at it and say, "We've got to take a picture. " Bill had a Hasselblad, with ektachrome film. He got the shots, which were great - I'm glad he did. But I always kid him and say, "I directed you on how to shoot that thing. " JC: Did you guys take photos, too? JL: Yeah, but we were handicapped. I think Frank [Borman] took some black-and-whites. Like I said, Bill had the color film, but he also had a telescopic lens. If you look at that picture, the Earth is really bigger than it is when you see it with the naked eye. Bill was the lunar pilot on the flight, and we didn't have a Lunar Module.
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