Christmas Eve Earthrise
Believe it or not, that’s not President-elect Barack Obama’s ubiquitous “rise” logo.
It’s the first photo of an earth-rise, which was taken during the historic voyage of Apollo 8 forty years ago today.
It’s also the focus of perhaps the coolest-ever installment of “This Day In Tech” from Wired.com.
Courtesy of Wired, you can watch the famous Christmas Eve broadcast from Apollo 8 below, which is both beautiful and ironic – beautiful for obvious reasons, ironic because a present-day astronaut would probably get fired for reading the Bible from space.
A lot changes in forty years, doesn’t it? Of course a lot stays the same …
Comments
By HP on December 24th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Coolest Christmas Message Ever…speechlessly cool…………………
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Merry Christmas Earthlings!
By Chip Jones on December 24th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
It’s not actually the first earthrise picture, just the first one taken by a human. See http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081118.html