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It got all the glory, I much preferred the Hurricane or the Typhoon.
Sony a6000 + Sony E PZ 16-50mm 1:3.5-5.6 OSS
This Apollo 8 reentry photograph was taken by a U.S. Air Force ALOTS (Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking System) camera mounted on a KC-135A aircraft flown at 40,000 ft altitude. Apollo 8 splashed down at 10:15 a.m., December 27, 1968, in the central Pacific approximately 1,000 miles South-Southwest of Hawaii.
On August 3, Mike and I visited the Bullock Texas State History Museum (1800 Congress Ave.) to see The 1968 Exhibit, which stopped in Austin during its national tour. Among the many intriguing displays was a full-size replica of the Apollo 8 space capsule. Here, Mike checks out the capsule and some original footage of the rocket launch...
Deed me erg denken aan het spookhuis in de Efteling. Kenedy: "We do this not because it's easy, but because it's hard".
The Washington National Cathedral is seen lit up with space imagery prior to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Spirit of Apollo event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. via NASA ift.tt/2RWygvR
"In the closing days of 1968, all mankind could exult in the vision of a new universe. For all its upheavals and frustrations, the year would be... celebrated as the year in which men saw at first hand their little earth entire, a remote, blue-brown sphere hovering like a migrant bird in the hostile night of space." - TIME, January 3, 1969, naming the Apollo 8 astronauts the 1968 "Men of the Year"
More info about "1968: The Year That Rocked America" exhibition: www.heinzhistorycenter.org/secondary.aspx?id=215&cont...