 When the spacecraft came out from behind the Moon for its fourth pass across the front , the crew witnessed " Earthrise " for the first time in human history ( NASA 's Lunar Orbiter 1 took the very first picture of an Earthrise from the vicinity of the Moon , on August 23 , 1966 ) . Borman saw the Earth emerging from behind the lunar horizon , and then called in excitement to the others , taking a black @-@ and @-@ white photograph as he did so . In the ensuing scramble Anders took Earthrise , a more famous color photo , later picked by Life magazine as one of its hundred photos of the century . 
