Covered Earth with my thumb: Astronaut on 1st Moon orbiting mission
Fifty years ago on Christmas Eve, NASA astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon in the Apollo 8 mission known for capturing the "Earthrise". "I put my thumb on the spacecraft window and I could completely hide the Earth...the Earth was merely a speck in the Milky Way galaxy," said Lovell.