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45 years ago this week, Bill Anders snapped this first photo of Earth taken by humans.
As Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit and they came around from the farside, this was their view. Through a bold decision by NASA to beat the Russians to the Moon, Bill Anders, Jim Lovell and Frank Borman were the first humans to orbit the Moon. It was such a momentous and emotional event, during a time of chaos in U.S. society, they were moved to recite from "Genesis". Perhaps the greatest Christmas present given to mankind, watching that live on Dec. 24.
Recently data was compiled from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and re-created the view as they would have seen it.
Merry Christmas ! www.space.com/15384-famous-earth-rise-moon-created-orbite...
A letter dated December 31 1968 sent from Canberra with a Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station Apollo 8 label on it along with a "Man on the Moon" label.
Edited NASA image of the Apollo 8 crew training in a centrifuge. Colorized via colorize-it.com.
Original caption: S68-53283 (1 Nov. 1968) --- The Apollo 8 prime crew is seen inside the gondola during centrifuge training in MSC's Flight Acceleration Facility, Building 29. Left to right, are astronauts William A. Anders, lunar module pilot, James A. Lovell Jr., command module pilot; and Frank Borman, commander.
Photo credit: NASA
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Is this a real space capsule? No, this is a replica of the Apollo 8 command module, which is currently on exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. This model replicates the exact size and shape of the module and its new lunar module docking assembly, as well as the pattern and width of the reflective silver insulating tape. Since most of the actual module's silver tape burned off during re-entry, this replica reproduces the appearance of the module on Christmas Eve 1968.
More info about "1968: The Year That Rocked America" exhibition: www.heinzhistorycenter.org/secondary.aspx?id=215&cont...
"...good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you -- all of you on the good Earth."
That's how the greeting on Christmas eve ended forty years ago tonight.
That was 1968.
That was the year a black Minister was murdered for the sin of preaching peace and the brother of a fallen president was killed while trying to attain that same lofty office.
The war in Southeast Asia was peaking with the deaths of thousands on the holiday of Tet and Soviet tanks were invading Prague.
That was quite a year...
But this night, forty years ago, everyone stopped...and looked up...
...and listened to the words of three little human beings...
...and for that brief moment we were all one people, the people of Earth.
Thank you Apollo 8 for reminding us just how special the world can be.
One of the museum's original attractions when it first opened in 1933, nearly an entire coal mine on display. It has, of course, been updated a couple times since then.
Sony a6000 + Sony E PZ 16-50mm 1:3.5-5.6 OSS
23-11-2019: Volleybal: Vrouwen Apollo 8 v Dros Alterno: Borne
Benthe Wisman probeert door het blok van Apollo8 heen te komen. Rinske Hofste Ilona ter Avest , Kim Klein Lankhorst en Lieke Hilgenberg of Apollo8 zien dat dat ditmaal wel lukt.
OMEGA – SPEEDMASTER Moonwatch Chronograph "Dark Side of the Moon" Apollo 8 Black Ceramic Limited Edition
Apollo crew, (L-r) Frank borman, william anders, and james lovell pose in front of apollo simulator during training.
Apollo 8 command module spacecraft capsule replica on the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina - © 2014 David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions Photography Archives - www.performanceimpressions.com
Saturn V Restoration Project
Commander Frank F Borman II second and last spaceflight
Command Module Pilot James A Lovell, Jr third spaceflight
Lunar Module Pilot William A Anders Only spaceflight
Lunar Module Pilot was the official title used for the third pilot position in Block II missions,
regardless of whether the LM spacecraft was present or not.
The Apollo 8 crew stands in the doorway of a recovery helicopter after arriving aboard the carrier U.S.S. Yorktown, recovery vessel for the historic initial manned lunar orbital mission. In left foreground is astronaut Frank Borman, Mission Commander. Behind Borman is astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., Command Module pilot; and on the right is astronaut William A. Anders, Lunar Module pilot. Apollo 8 splashed down at 10:51 a.m. (EST), December 27, 1968, in the central Pacific Ocean, approximately 1,000 miles south-southwest of Hawaii.
Frank Borman, James Lovell, William Anders
To beat the Soviets to the moon, NASA changed Apollo 8's mission from orbiting the earth to orbiting the moon. They launched on December 21st and made this telecast from around the moon on Christmas Eve.
On a photography note, Apollo 8 was the first mission where a photo of the whole earth was able to be taken. The most famous was Earth Rise
A German magazine advertising the U-505 on display at the Museum of Science and Industry.
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A mock-up of Mission Control for the launch of Apollo 8 at the Apollo/Saturn V Center, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
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Love the detail from the original Apollo 8 Hasselblad images (from film magazine 17/C - Lunar Orbit) my Photoshop adjustments original: flic.kr/p/zJHVUU