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"Earthrise", First Human-taken Photos of "Whole Earth"

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8

• http://www.abc.net.au/science/moon/earthrise.htm

'Earthrise', NASA Apollo image AS08-14-2383 coming into view

December 24, 1968

As the Apollo 8 astronauts circled the Moon, they happened to look out the window and coming into view was .... the home planet, Earth, rising blue and full of life in the dark black sky of space

Beginnings of the modern environmental movement

Apollo 8, launched on Dec 21, 1968. History was made. Humanity's picture of our place in the universe changed. Life on Earth changed as a result. Cognitive awareness, planetary awareness changed. Environmental awareness changed forever.

Apollo 8 was the first human mission to deep space, deep enough to see the Whole Earth and share images of what they saw. The images were taken "serendipity", they were not planned as part of the mission. It was a magic, monumental event -- and the images forever changed humanity's perspective of ourselves and our home planet.

Apollo's Earthrise to Earth Day

Time for new beginnings, a modern environmental protection movement... 18 months after Apollo 8's "Earthrise" photo was first seen on Earth, the first environmental 'teach-in' -- that we called "Earth Day" -- arose with a flourishing whole earth message with new perspective, new ways of seeing. A new identification with the home planet began to be visualized and set in motion through a global environmental movement.

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

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Whole_earth_catalog_1969.jpg

• http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/science/space/14mission.html

... The sight moved the poet Archibald MacLeish to write on Christmas Day of that momentous perspective-changing year:

“To see the Earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the Earth together...”

After the mission, NASA released the color pictures the astronauts had taken of “Earthrise”, celebrated on the cover of Life Magazine in January 1969.

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earthrise_book_cover_(2008).jpg

In a 2008 book, “Earthrise” Robert Poole writes of a "spiritual nascence" of the environmental movement... “It is possible to see that Earthrise marked the tipping point, the moment when the sense of the space age flipped from what it meant for space to what it means for Earth.”

Galen Rowell described the Earthrise image as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken".

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