Here's what William Shatner would have seen on his trip to space aboard Blue Origin as his new book says it 'felt like a funeral'
Apollo 8's moon orbit in December 1968 was the first time astronauts photographed Earth in its entirety from space, withshot by lunar module pilot William Anders.
While the Apollo 8 mission traveled some 234,000 miles away from our home planet, Shatner and Funk's 66-mile journey was not high enough the see the planet in its full form."I thought I was going to see the world, but we weren't quite high enough," Funk said.
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