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View from Apollo 8 / Photo via NASA, December 1968

The Earth comes into view as never before seen ...

GreenPolicy360: We remember, those of us who were there, watching the Apollo missions in 1968 and 1969, how our views of who we were as citizens changed. We saw, for the first time, our Earth rising in space as astronauts captured amazing photographs.

The 'Earthrise' image, as seen from Apollo 8, was a magic moment, seeing our planet as it had never been seen before, an emerging Earth vision -- and a beginning of a modern Environmental Movement.

• https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf

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DYK? Yes, we know, we remember the beginnings !

Memories on the Road to the First Earth Day

By Steven Schmidt, a Planet Citizen

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary

Apollo 8 Looks Homeward

December 24, 1968 | 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 --- and a vision looking back at home that empowered the modern environmental movement.

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

The original Earth Day Flag (1970)

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Aboard Apollo, December 24, 1968, as the spaceship swings around the Moon, unexpectedly the Earth 'rises', surprisingly coming into view through a window --

Astronaut Bill Anders is the first to see our home planet 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...

'Earthrise' changed forever humanity's vision of ourselves,

We were becoming Planet Citizens

* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_8

A Conversation with Astronaut Bill Anders / April 2023

On Dec. 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon, and the first to witness, in a surprising appearance, the magnificent sight called "Earthrise"...

NASA’s Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor Dr. Katherine Calvin talks with Bill Anders to discuss the historic Earthrise photo

• https://images.nasa.gov/details/Earthrise%20-%20A%20Conversation%20with%20Apollo%208%20Astronaut%20Bill%20Anders%20%28Official%20NASA%20Video%29

Earth Right Now

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFfFsOu7yqY

• https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/overview/index.html

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now

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Galen Rowell described the Earthrise image as...

"the most influential environmental photograph ever taken".

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