COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Record
Title:
Earthrise
Explanation:
In December of 1968, the Apollo 8 [ http://www.lpi.usra… ] crew flew from the Earth to the Moon [ http://jv.gilead.or… ] and back again. Frank Borman [ http://www.jsc.nasa… borman-f.html ], James Lovell [ http://www.jsc.nasa… lovell-ja.html ], and William Anders [ http://www.jsc.nasa… anders-wa.html ] were launched atop a Saturn V rocket [ http://www.apollosa… ] on December 21, circled the Moon ten times in their command module, and returned to Earth on December 27. The Apollo 8 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n… MasterCatalog?sc=1968-118A ] mission's impressive list of firsts includes: the first humans to journey to the Earth's Moon [ http://www.nineplan… ], the first manned flight using the Saturn V [ http://antwrp.gsfc.… ], and the first to photograph [ http://www.lpi.usra… A08_Photography.html ] the Earth from deep space. As the Apollo 8 command module rounded the farside of the Moon, the crew could look toward the lunar horizon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.… ] and see the Earth appear to rise, due to their spacecraft's orbital motion. The famous picture [ http://www.abc.net.… ] that resulted, of a distant blue Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.… ] above the Moon's limb, was a marvelous gift to the world.
Credit and Copyright:
Apollo 8 [ http://science.ksc.… apollo-8.html ], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov… ]
facet_who:
Frank Borman
facet_when:
1968
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_what:
Apollo 8
facet_when_year:
1968
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap051224
