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| The crew of Apollo 8: (l-r) Frank Borman, Bill Anders, Jim Lovell |
Frank Borman, mission commander of Apollo 8, died on Novermber 7 at age 95.
The Apollo 8 mission, December 21-27, 1968, was notable in NASA's overall project for a moon landing and significant in our species' history. For the first time, a manned spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon; we saw the "dark side of the Moon" (The moon does rotate, but it rotates at the same speed that it rotates around the Earth. The moon completes one full rotation on its axis in the time it takes to orbit the Earth. That means the same side is always turned toward us) and we saw what the Earth looks like from space. This famous photograph, "Earthrise" taken by Bill Anders on December 24, 1968 changed forever our view of our home. A beautiful blue orb, rising above the barren landscape of the moon, shining in the blackness of space.
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| Bill Anders |
Walter Cronkite noted how anyone seeing this, could not wonder why we live in enmity, instead of embracing our brotherhood, alone together in the universe.
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