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I am Kate Calvin, NASA's
chief scientist and senior climate adviser,

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and I'm sitting down with Bill Anders,
who took the famous Earthrise photo.

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[music swells]

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[Audio from the Apollo 8 mission]:
Oh, God, look at that picture over there.

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That's the Earth comin’ up.

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Wow, is that pretty!

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So most of us only get to see 
what's right in front of us.

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The sidewalk, the building, the trees.

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But when you were in space,
you had this opportunity

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to see the planet as a whole,
this beautiful blue planet.

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What was that like?

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Well, before we got to the Moon,
I was able to look back at the Earth,

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and it was about the size of my fist
at arm's length.

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And you really couldn't see any details.

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It was kind of, uh, you couldn't see the continents even,
you know, and even the people from orbit,

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you don't see many manmade 
features, if any, from space.

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But I thought that it it was really kind of a —
it was at Christmas time

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and it was like a fragile
Christmas tree ornament.

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And I thought to myself,
you know, it's too bad we don't treat it

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more like a Christmas tree ornament.

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And then when I was lucky enough

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to take the iconic Earthrise picture,

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which basically kicked off the Earth Day
and that kind of thing —

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it's really too bad you know,
we're shooting missiles and rockets

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and whatnot at each other on this
tiny little place we call home.

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It's the only home in the universe for us humans.

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And, you know, it's too bad
we don't treat it a little better.

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We're approaching the 53rd Earth Day.

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And as you said, Earthrise has had a tremendous impact

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on people and the environmental movement.

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What do you think the biggest impacts were both then
and now of the Earthrise photo?

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Well, it people realize that the planet was

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a fragile, delicate.

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Clearly, mankind has not been kind to the planet.

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But could you tell the story
of taking Earthrise?

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We had ...

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I think they gave me a little bit
of photography training.

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I had a camera I took home, a Hasselblad,

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took a few pictures, but, you know, no —

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didn't even have a light
meter on our flight.

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And so we were in lunar orbit

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upside down and going backwards.

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So for the first several revolutions,

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we didn't see the Earth

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and didn't really think about that.

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And then we righted ourselves,

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you know, heads up
and twisted the spacecraft

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so it was going forward
and while Frank Borman was in the process

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of doing that, suddenly
I saw the corner of my eye this color.

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It was shocking.

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[Audio from Apollo 8 mission] Anders: Oh,
my God. Look at that picture over there!

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There’s the Earth coming up.

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Wow, is that pretty!

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[Sound effect of a camera
click] Anders: You got a color film, Jim?

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Hand me a roll of color, quick, would you?

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Jim Lovell: Oh, man, that’s great! Where is it? 
Anders: Hurry. Quick.

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[Anders continues]
So I managed to get Lovell to get me

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a color magazine, put the long lens
on, and started snapping away.

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[Audio from Apollo 8 mission]  Lovell:Got it?
 Anders: Yep.

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Lovell: Take several, take several of ‘em!

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Here, give it to me.

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Anders: Wait a minute, just let me get the
right setting here now, just calm down.

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Calm down, Lovell!

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[Sound effect of camera click]
Lovell: Well I got it right — aw, that’s a beautiful shot.

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Lovell: Now vary — vary
the exposure a little bit.

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Anders: I did. I took two of ‘em here.

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Lovell: You sure you got it now?

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Anders: Yeah, we’ll
get — well, it’ll come up again I think.

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Without a light meter, I really didn't 
know what to set it,

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so I just took the f-stop and just took a shot,

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moved it, took a shot, moved it and, and

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then really didn't
think that much about it.

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I think had I not taken the Earthrise
picture, you know, Bill, who?

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You know? [laugh]

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I have it hanging on the wall of my office.

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Anders: Is that right?

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Calvin: It's a reminder every day of why we do this:

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for science, for inspiration, for innovation.

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Anders: Yeah
Clavin: for home.

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Anders: Yeah.

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Anders: It makes people think, you know,

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this fragile little ball we live on.

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Calvin: Yeah. Beautiful fragile ball.

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Anders: Hadn’t made him think enough,
but they do think.

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Earth is one of our most important
missions at NASA

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and we're continuing to use that vantage
point of space

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the image that you saw.

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We continue to look at Earth
and see how it's changing.

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What words of wisdom would you give future
scientists, astronauts

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or the next generation?

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Certainly viewing of space

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from — of Earth, from space like Landsat,
which I fought for,

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and from the space station,
looking down the Earth.

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Calvin: I think Landsat is
how most people see Earth.

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We get to see a lot of 50 years
worth of Landsat imagery.

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And Landsat has been a, to my
knowledge, been quite a helpful program.

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Yeah, it's been tremendous both in showing 
the planet and how it changes

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but also providing information to landowners everywhere. 
Anders: Right.

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So you're known for one of the

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most poetic quotes about going to the moon
and discovering Earth.

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Can you tell us about that?

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It's hard for me to imagine I actually 
said it because it's so poetic.

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[Calvin laughs]

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But when asked people, you know,
you know, “What impressed you?”

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I said, well, you know,

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“We we went to the Moon to explore the 
Moon, and what we discovered was the Earth.”

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So one, I was lucky to take Earthrise,

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with color film, with a long lens
and make that statement.

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And that's about my real

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environmental claim to fame.

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It's a pretty big claim to fame. 
Anders: Yeah. [laugh]

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I do think often we have to leave home to appreciate it. 
Anders: Yeah.

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And you had that opportunity and 
I think generations are grateful

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for what you've done.
Anders: Yeah, well ...

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But seeing the earth from space ...

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and I really wish
I could take a flight in the space station

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because we were just in Earth orbit,
one and a half revolutions, so

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but it is beautiful from space.

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[Text on screen: In, 2018, two craters were named 
in honor of the Apollo 8 mission]