#earthrise

[caleod]

28-3-24

[emperor-kumquat]

CAN ANYONE HEAR ME

[roversrovers]

55 years ago today, on December 24th 1968, Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders took the iconic image known as "Earthrise"

"The Earth we saw rising over the battered grey lunar surface was small and delicate, a magnificent spot of color in the vast blackness of space. Once-distant places appeared inseparably close. Borders that once rendered division vanished. All of humanity appeared joined together on this glorious-but-fragile sphere." - William Anders

Happy holidays!

[spacecdt]

Happy Holidays! Everyone has their own holiday traditions, but there’s one thing we can all celebrate today… The anniversary of the first time humanity visited the Moon! Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit and snapped the iconic Earthrise image on OTD in 1968.

Now, 54 years later, we are preparing to return utilizing spacecraft that are more powerful and advanced than ever before. This time the Moon isn’t a destination, but a foothold as we look onward to Mars. We are going.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

54 years ago.

[dduane]

...Chills.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

'Earthrise' from the moon

A view of Earth from the moon as it rises above the moon's surface, taken by South Korea's Danuri spacecraft in Nov. 2022.

(Image credit: KARI)

[lola1695]

Esta incrível imagem da ascensão da Terra foi tirada durante a órbita lunar pela tripulação da missão Apollo 11 em julho de 1969. A primeira missão lunar tripulada, a Apollo 11, foi lançada a bordo de um veículo de lançamento Saturn V do Centro Espacial Kennedy, Flórida, em 16 de julho de 1969 e retornou com segurança à Terra em 24 de julho de 1969. A tripulação de 3 homens a bordo do voo consistia em Neil A. Armstrong, comandante; Michael Collins, piloto do Módulo de Comando; e Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., piloto do Módulo Lunar.

[noballoonsinspace]

The whole environmentalist movement started bc we went to space and saw for the first time how pretty our planet is as a whole and that’s really amazing and raw and genuine but. we should save & cherish ugly things too 👉👈

[vgadvisor]

[horror-heks]

Earthrise -December 24th 1968

Taken by Bill Anders aboard Apollo 8. Along with astronaut Anders, were astronauts Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell. The audio recordings you can hear the excitement in their voices getting these images. This was my favorite crew and mission to learn about during my Apollo mission research.

[pinksphere]

Earthrise collection from Iris van Herpen (2021)

[krisis-krinein]

https://www.instagram.com/wolfgang_tillmans/

The first time humans saw their planet rise above the moon's surface (and photographed it) 24th December 1968 on Apollo 8 spacecraft. (photo NASA reprinted in FAZ newspaper yesterday)

[judayre]

12/19/23

Moon

[spacecdt]

Apollo 11 LEM Descent.

Fun fact: NASA astronaut Michael Collins, who took this image, is the only human in the universe, alive or dead, not shown in this photograph.

[drlockdown-reviews]

- Hasbro designers put out an open question in Instagram asking "which Prime Wars and WFC figures would you like to see reissued?"

- Some of the most requested are the late wavers in Earthrise, that got no stock

- Months pass

- Leaked listing drops for a selects five pack

It could very much be a coincidence, but it can't be that difficult to get a mould out of storage and assign a new deco.

Plus it's an excuse to finally release earth hound.

If this is how they do business with fan feedback going forward, I'll happily take this over fan votes.