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On the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 8 Mission ... "Earthrise"

Whole Earth vision and the beginning of the modern Environmental Movement


December 24, 2018


Via CNN / Fifty years after "Earthrise"

Via USA Today / "Earthrise" on the Fiftieth Anniversary

Via the New York Times / We Are All Riders on the Same Planet


https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo_8,_Life_Jan10,1969.png

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181220-the-nasa-mission-that-broadcast-to-a-billion-people

https://qz.com/1501935/photos-apollo-8-brought-us-the-moon-as-never-seen-before/amp/

https://petapixel.com/2018/12/20/how-nasas-iconic-earthrise-photo-was-shot/


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Earthrise: Apollo 8's point of view of Earth on December 24, 1968


December 21, 1968 ... Apollo 8 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, the first humans on the way to the Moon at the beginnings of the modern environmental movement.

The mission? To explore the Moon in preparation for a Moon landing. A surprise comes into view as Apollo circles the Moon. Whole Earth awareness of ourselves as #PlanetCitizens. "Earthrise" ... a profound image, first by human hands taken of our home planet. We see our #PlanetEarth home with new born eyes ...


The Earthrise photo history
100 Photographs That Changed the World
NASA simulation video of Earthrise on the 45th anniversary


http://www.youtube.com/embed/dE-vOscpiNc
http://www.abc.net.au/science/moon/earthrise.htm
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo_8,_Life_Jan10,1969.png


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Aboard Apollo, December 24, 1968, as the spaceship swings around the Moon and unexpectedly the Earth rises and the astronauts are amazed at what is coming into view ...


Astronaut Bill Anders is the first to see the Earth:


"Oh, my God, look at that picture over there," he can be heard saying. "There's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!"


What happened next will sound familiar to anyone who remembers the days before digital cameras:


Anders (to astronaut Jim Lovell): "You got a color film, Jim? Hand me a roll of color, quick, would you?"

Lovell: "Oh, man, that's great! Where is it?"

Anders: "Hurry. Quick."

Lovell: "Down here?"

Anders: "Just grab me a color. A color exterior. Hurry up. Got one?"

Lovell: "Yeah, I'm lookin' for one. C368."

Anders: "Anything quick."


Lovell hands him the film just as Anders is heard saying, "I think we missed it."


But within seconds, Lovell sees the shot again in another window of the command module. He asks for the camera from Anders, who seems a bit defensive at having his role as mission photographer usurped.


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


Anders then gets the shot that has been reproduced innumerable times all over the world...


Changing forever humanity's vision of ourselves, of who we are


Earthrise, the way Anders saw it.jpg
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_8 / #PlanetCitizens


Earthrise 100 Photographs That Changed the World .jpg


Earthrise book cover (2008).jpg


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