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Dec 21, 2018 · Apollo 8, the first mission to carry humans to the moon, entered lunar orbit on December 24, 1968. That evening, mission commander Frank Borman, command module pilot Jim Lovell, and lunar module ...
Dec 21, 2018 · Meanwhile, a second Hasselblad with an 80-mm lens was mounted in Borman's front-facing window, the so-called rendezvous window, photographing the Moon on an automatic timer: a new picture every twenty seconds. These photographs, matched with LRO's high-resolution terrain maps, show that Borman was still turning Apollo 8 when the Earth appeared.
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Apr 22, 2024 · More than 50 years after it was shot, Earthrise continues to be seen as one of the most iconic environmental photographs ever taken. On Christmas Eve, 1968 the crew of Apollo 8 captured a ...
Nov 23, 2023 · The iconic Earthrise image from the astronauts of NASA's Apollo 8 mission taken on Dec. 24, 1968.(Image credit: NASA) The recent death of Frank Borman, commander of Nasa’s Apollo 8 mission in ...
- Robert Poole
Dec 24, 2018 · The decision was thus made that Borman, Lovell and Anders crew, the crew of Apollo 8, would fly anyway with what they had — the Apollo orbiter alone — and take it to the place it was designed ...
Dec 20, 2018 · The Apollo 8 Christmas Eve broadcast. Earthrise is a testament to the extraordinary capacity of human perception. Although, in 1968, the photograph seemed revelatory and unexpected, it belongs to ...
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Earthrise. Earthrise, taken on December 24, 1968, by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders. Earthrise is a photograph of Earth and part of the Moon 's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. [1][2][3] Nature photographer Galen Rowell described it as "the most influential ...
