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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8

'Earthrise' photo history -- the first 'whole earth' photo

http://www.ibhanet.org/resources/documents/newsletters/spierearthrisephoto.pdf

The beginning of the modern environmental movement...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/science/space/14mission.html

... the sight moved the poet Archibald MacLeish to write in The Times on Christmas Day: “To see the Earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the Earth together...”

After the mission, NASA released the color pictures the astronauts had taken of “Earthrise.” These were even more inspiring and humbling, the mission’s prized keepsake. Time magazine closed out the year with the Earthrise photograph on its cover, with a one-word caption, “Dawn.”

In a 2008 book, “Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth,” Robert Poole contends that the picture was the spiritual nascence of the environmental movement, writing that “it is possible to see that Earthrise marked the tipping point, the moment when the sense of the space age flipped from what it meant for space to what it means for Earth.”

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