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For those who don't get it - this is the moment 'Earthrise' was captured, during Apollo 8, December 23, 1968. One of the most influential photographs in history. The last surviving member of the crew, Jim Lovell, died Thursday.

What about Fred Haise?

Theres a lot of speculation of whether or not that really happened, so everyone should do their research!

There’s a lot of speculation that many people are profoundly stupid and have difficulty with reality.

lol you got that right! People will fall for anything

Get help.

No, not from sensible people.

Exactly, very well said

Buzz Aldrin comes down from heaven to punch you in the face.

There is a lot of speculation about whether there are zombies but not among people who have a real brain.

I don't think thats true...

www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

There’s a lot of speculation of whether the earth is round too but I certainly don’t need to do any research on that.

lol they already did the research - how else do you think we know! 😜

Stop trying to make stupidity catch on, child.

Thank you

I m fortunate to say I watched it live!!

Here’s the backstory:

Same year 2001: 𝐴 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑂𝑑𝑦𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑦 came out. I had such high hopes back then. Probably no higher than Lovell's, though.

The first ever manned deep space flight. No-one had ever been that far from Earth - as significant as the Moon landing itself.

My teen son is so touched by Jim’s life story and bravery he was brought to tears when I told him of Jim’s passing.

I welled up over Jim Lovell passing, too - what an amazing human being.

Totally 💯

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Influential Photographs... I was there when that photo flashed around the world, my young mind was truly blown, and it made me want to be a photographer. RIP Jim, if your wish was to make people want to take better photographs, "Job Done"? Thanks for everything.

Someone alive when this photo was taken. 🤣

You should reread the original post then maybe log off for a bit and pick up a history book.

I was the same, like I'm still here! So is my mum! 🤣😂🌜🌏

Oh Kim. Read the room.

Missed it by That much…….

Get someone to explain the post for you because you don't understand what was said.

Witnessed the moment

RIF

I think you misunderstood the post? Seeing the photo is a lot different from being ON Apollo 8 when it was taken.

Well the wording could lead to that interpretation

No. He said witness.

I had to read it twice.

As in “live” ≠ “alive”.

Also, it might be clarified that this photo wasn't taken during the live TV broadcast that people might have seen, and the film wasn't developed in a darkroom until after the mission.

There's the missing piece of information

Younger readers may also need words like “developed” and “darkroom” explained. parallaxphotographic.coop/beginners-gu...

I believe in old school ☺️

My mother was a radiographer back in the day when they processed film manually. Then they go an automated developing machine. Today it’s all digital.

Yep, she definitely had her work cut for her! X-rays etc would take forever now like you say everything is immediately uploaded

Eh the highschool here still has a course where they develop film in a dark room lol!

That’s wonderful

My father built a darkroom in our garage to develop B&W photos taken with his Kodak Brownie "box" camera.

My mum had one of those but didn’t process her own film.

My dad passed it on to me when he copped out and bought a Polaroid Land Camera. Unfortunately, he never taught me how to develop the pics. But I liked the camera, anyway. It was my first one.

Seems you're a little out of touch with the younger generation Philip. There's been a huge resurgence of photography & film development in the past few years.

You mean like vinyl records? How retro.

Well, I suppose at your age, even the invention of the steam engine isn't something you consider 'historical' as it's within your lifetime.

Borman AND Anders were both Air Force. Lovell was Navy.

I was in the Air Force at the time, and you can BET we were all glued to my TV, the entire barracks.

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It'll all vanish into the ether, eventually. So, what's the point of all this killing? 🤔

Millions watched it live on television. Surely you can’t be serious.

🙏🏻❤️

Got a bit of a lump in my throat reading your post. 😢

Huh???

Damn. This post is how I found out that Jim Lovell died. I figured he was immortal. I hope he still gets the trip to the moon that he so richly deserves. RIP to a giant.

*raises hand*

You mean the old guy in the John Lewis advert is dead?!😱

I think it says much and more for the power of the photograph that it shall endure for so long after those who witnessed it in person passed. Truly a gift to humanity from the space program and may the brave astronauts who took that picture so long ago rest easy

#ChronoMedia with #Apollo8 footage mprove.de/chrono?ll=29... #earthrise

Er.....i did ,i was 7 lying on sofa with measels watching on a B/W tv

🌹RIP

It was on here.

1969 RCA console TV

Awwwww.

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RIP Jim Lovell now you can finally have that conversation with Sir Isaac Newton

borMAN ANDers LOVEll

Lovell was one of my favorite astronauts when I was a kid. Amazing guy. Sad he’s gone.

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I think he’s referring to those who were actually there, in space, when the photograph was taken.

Just as well he took her photo 😀

If you're talking about the 1969 Apollo Moon landing, that can't be true — my mother watched the Moon landing live, and was 12 at the time. Is this photo from a much earlier milestone? On a side-note, it's a shame that nobody has walked on another world since 1972. :(

This is the Earthrise photo shot by William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission (december 1968). The other crew members were Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, the last surviving one, who died last Thursday. He was the last one alive who saw this moment from this perspective.

Ah! I totally understand now. Thanks. :) So, everyone present to watch and photograph/film this event has passed away? That's really sad.

This! Thank you

Thanks for being a teacher instead of just joining in with the snarky, supercilious comments.

Thank you. As I am writing pseudonymously here, I try to keep the snark in check.

Ah ! That makes more sense now 🌝

I also watched the Moon landing and every scrap of footage they got. I was obsessed. I was 14 and wanted to be the first woman on the Moon. This led to a Star Trek obsession that has never abated to this day 😁

My mother was a big Trekkie. :) Do you like Doctor Who? If you haven't seen it already, I heartily recommend the Series 6 two-parter The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon, which features the Silence as all-time great villains/monsters and has a brilliant plot centred on the Apollo 11 broadcast.

I haven't watched Dr Who but always heard good things. I'm retired now so I can binge watch! I'll be sure to catch this one thanks for the tip!

If NASA's Artemis program progresses further, the first woman on the Moon won't be too far away. Mid-2027, it seems. :) And in my lifetime, I hope to see people set foot on another planet (Mars, presumably) for the first time. :D

It just occurred to me: while perhaps not as exciting, Mercury is closer to Earth than Mars and would probably be much easier to get to, due to its small orbit and therefore very wide travel window. Maybe we should "practice" with landing people on Mercury before the big jump to Mars?

Mercury's temperature is too hot in the day and too cold at night.

Good point, though we’ve had decades of practice with temperature extremes in space. I’m sure we could figure out how to safely land people on Mercury.

Yes good point which I thought at first, however your point is on target. We could discover the technology to get on Mercury as long as our scientific community can stay strong and they are being severely tested rn

Apollo 8 i believe.

You're right, and @gingerbreadcoffee.bsky.social helpfully clarified the source for me. :)

I returned home to Essex from Scotland by train and at 17 years old heard all the live stuff of the landing. I was not allowed to observe the moon walk, and probably had to wait till after tea to see it. Like yesterday, so exciting to me.

My Dad designed one of the re entry consumable shield layers. It looked like copper honeycomb. Sadly on the move from Boston to Berkeley, that one box (with the coin collection in it) never arrived. It was probably tossed as no value seen in it.

Thank you and RIP.

The very short list of people who both went to space and got to see themselves played by Tom Hanks in the movies...

I’m sure Forest Gump made it there. Maybe in the sequel.

If you chose to make Artemis rather than Hail Mary, a lot of fictional people would witness that

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RIP Jim Lovell, what he and the other two went through in space, is a miracle they made it back to earth.

Great man. 😔

Who says?

Cool af. It also looks like a man’s face holding an animal or really bushy long hair. It’s a side view of him. But damn it is so cool. Be safe

Wow I didn’t see it until you mentioned it👍

Been a fan of the era and the way these were captured, and how, it is a feat of engineering and endeavour. If I had to pick three survival, it would be Bligh, Shackleton and Apollo 13. (obvs people can have their own picks.) But 13 I would have in top.

I was 10. I actually watched it. It scared me. My parents always encouraged me to watch to view historical moments.

Nope. This picture was not broadcast live. They did not even have the means to do that. This photo was not seen until the film was developed back on earth.

Watched it in a another house & family with you

by "live" they meant "actually there"

But that is not what live means.

wow. that's shocking information that i never knew

...and in person that's been made public

Oh how sad. 😢

Profound and very sad.

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In person

as in, stepped onto the moon. yeah, and if they were, the conspiracy theorists would just say they are lying

Well of course not..live. Trying to get attention, or what?

Are you high? There are millions if not billions.

Yes we keep losing some of our best

Hey, I don’t plan on going anywhere!!

That took me a second, cause I’m old.

My favorite moment from the movie Apollo 13. When Lovell, Swigert, and Haise had survived reentry. Our student body was together to witness Apollo 13 splashdown, 1970. A moment when the entire world believed that American Democracy was the pinnacle of human potential. What today has become a joke.

😢😞

Those men were genuine heroes.

Does live on TV count? July 69.

It was a time of great hope for the future – even with all the turmoil on earth then. Who would’ve thought we would be where we are now.

lets celebrate this moment by putting nuclear reactors on the moon

Some say there never was...

I witnessed this moment…but from a different perspective.

Fun fact: the earth doesn’t actually rise on the moon. It appeared to rise for Apollo 8 astronauts because of their orbit around the moon. The moon is tidally phase locked to the earth. So from any fixed position on the earth side of the moon the earth is fixed in the sky. It never rises or sets.

Fun fact: the moon wobbles a bit, so there are areas of the lunar surface where the earth does oscillate above and below the horizon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libration

Wow. The famous Earth rise photo. Al Gore used this in his slides for @climaterealityproject.org leadership training. It set the tone for who we are (we are one), what we’re fighting for and how vulnerable and resilient our precious earth is. We should revisit that perspective more frequently.

There’s a wonderful Space Museum in Bonne Terre Missouri. The curator Earl will spend so much time sharing info—you should visit!!

Putting it on my list – thanks!

www.space-mo.org

The most interesting thing was no one anticipated that this view would happen. The immediate reaction of the crew was get the film cameras. Thank the crew for recognizing the importance of this view and shooting it.

Whew! Deep...

Which is sad

My favorite picture of all time!!!

R.I.P.Jim Lovell.

Did Kubrick die?

They were exciting times. Growing up at the same time as the Space Program excited all us kids. The Astronauts were always heroes to us.

What about Buzz?

I met Jim while looking at Bill's picture (Bill was first) at Heritage Flight. Jim laughed that he was 2nd but his was more famous because it was color.

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Nuclear Reactor and 0 water so stupid.

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Well... not according to bozos in the WH claiming we have guys up there currently and have had them there for some time.

RIP Jim Lovell.

Puts it in perspective….

.... from this location (to clarify). I remember this view from my parents TV (though not in color; they could not yet afford a color TV. Saw it in color the next day in the newspaper).

The last man to see this view alive died. Somehow that makes me feel even more marooned.

I think Buzz Sldrin is still alive, isn't he?

When Anders was loading the camera with film Jim Lovell said something on the lines of, Hurry up Bill, we're losing it!" Anders calm reply, "Settle down Jim." What those men accomplished and witnessed is why I am so deeply saddened that NASA and the Sciences were gutted financially by Trump admin.

I misunderstood this post for a second. Witnessed this moment live to me includes seeing the live broadcast on TV. Actually you mean that all the people who physically went to the moon and captured that moment are no longer alive.

Yeah, I think "in person" might have been a better expression than "live".

Rip Apollo 8 crew 🏁

A very poignant point. However, the last thing we need is a group of super-rich space tourists blasting off in private rockets for their own selfish gratification. We should all pay tribute, instead, to the very brave men who were true pioneers in the 1960s and 70s.

Old enough to remember when people complained we were spending too much $ on NASA and private companies should pay for "space" adventuring, not taxpayers.... and here we are, complaining about space adventurers. Kinda like making it possible for women to choose & reneging decades later.

I beg to differ

Hey...I was 4 and watched a little white dot moving across our B/W tv.

:(

☝🏻💯

As a child, I had a poster of this picture in my bedroom.

There were giants in those days.

All the rest of humanity is contained within this photograph.

More than keeping the photo alive, it's my profile picture. Waterskied with Lovell's kids in Timber Cove 2 miles from JSC. Although among the New Nine, he was definitely what Thomas Wolfe was talking about. A Gemini hero, an Apollo explorer. RIP Commander.

RIP Jim.

😰

Well that's probably a blessing since we are officially murdering science and volunteering for the dark ages

Took me second. You meant none of the crew is left.

which is what he should have said.

I'm still here.

That’s a very modern ‘historic’ take. Billions won’t know but that’s a massive bit of history…

That's so weird. They like the event have been lost to time. It's very.... Sobering, sad, and detached feeling

There are still a few living Apollo astronauts who saw this view of Earth.

Not the Apollo crew that captured the first "earth rise"

😢RIP

That particular view was witnessed in person only by those who flew Apollo missions.

Yes, and 6 of them are still alive? Not all walked on the moon but all could have had that view.

The actual people who could attest to the facts of the moon walks are almost all gone; the bulwark of the living truth will go with them and the mad conspiracy theories may flourish in their absence. The archive, the visual record, and the testimonies have never been more important.

Yeah and then there’s all those pesky rocks all around the world, oh yeah and the pounds and pounds of moon Soil…pesky little reminders

And retroreflector at known location. You can literally shine on it, just bring your own laser.

Those objects were recently retested and were found to be rather delicious chunks of Gruyere.

Not Wensleydale? By 'eck Gromit

Twit

I’m pretty sure he’s being sarcastic. MOSTLY, but this is Bluesky, not Twitter, so the odds of him being a whore for comment bait or HONESTLY that dumb are very low. But if he IS being serious, the appropriate insult would be spelled with an “a”, not an “i”.

People! Historical document “A Grand Day Out” proves otherwise! Moon = Cheese. Far better than similar “Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2….

That, but more a reference the old chestnut that the moon is made of cheese. But also you know what they say about having to explain the joke, so ...

I thought it was a fun joke.

Some jokes don't age well.

Like gruyere, they become more complex with age?

Do they grow imaginary roots? 🤔

Brilliant!

I dunno, i chuckled at both jokes. You're not winning the Internet, but it was a good joke.

It's rubbish anyway. Gruyere isn't green. (This is sarcasm, please don't call me names)

Just ask @scalzi.com!

Except there is still a lunar lander and a car and a reflector and footprints left behind...and rock samples and actual video and many new missions prove the evidence. But..." earth is flat " might win the repubes vote cuz Cristian valuze is in office

Everyone on my street stayed up all night in front of their TVs in the living room…the entire family in every house…mostly in black & white

It was the same in Australia where I grew up. We were glued to our “television sets” (I still don’t know why they were “sets”) watching fascinated the moon walk in black and white. We were so hopeful- if this could happen, nothing was beyond humanity. So different to our own day.

I grew up in the 60’s…astronauts were like gods…modern day cowboys…people were fascinated

I miss when former astronauts would punch people for lying about the moon landings.

There's some good books about the people who walked on the moon and how it affected them, one is called Moondust and another is A Man on the Moon.

I watched it on TV.

Don’t tell this to Buzz Aldrin

I watched all the moon stuff on tv when it was happening. Sad that all the astronauts are gone.

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Taken aboard Apollo 8 by Bill Anders, this iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon, with astronauts Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell aboard. www.nasa.gov/image-article/apollo-8-earthrise 🌍 Image Credit: NASA

Is this the photo Michael Collins took?

Yes

That's kinda sad.

Awwww took me a minute but now I get your meaning. That is sad.

Enter all the people claiming it never happened

Sad and true.

Wrong. Count me as a witness. Many others also.

Sobering fact. RIP Jim.

So sad.

that does put our efforts as a nation with NASA in a time perspective. What this country is doing to space and exploration in its privatization push is a mess.

December 23, 1998 with my 5 month old Grandson, Gabriel

🫶🏻 RIP

Even more proof devolution has is well & truly underway (that and MAGA). In 50 years we’ll be sacrificing virgins (if we can find any) to the Sun & Moon Gods. #StupidEpidemic

worshiping nature isn't "de-evolved" either, sacrificing peeps is, but the cultures that worship nature aren't homogeneous. Americans have human sacrifice, a lot. if you all had seen this in the first place the current situation would seem an expected progression we should've been more prepared for.

Buzz Aldrin is a fash though. The prezidents supporters are middle class more middle class people who live in the suburbs.

I watched it on TV, at 4yrs old with my parents.

Sad that we're going back into the dark ages again...

I hope the trump admin doesn't nix the first woman of color to walk on the moon.

He's got his eye on AG Tish James, I think.

I was already a "space" nut when this happened but was mesmerised by the photos and still "to this day" can stare at it in awe!

As someone whose 1st grade teacher wheeled a CRT TV in to show all us kids the footage, I was confused by your wording as well. I think that "witnessed this moment *in person" might have clarified what you meant

Feels close, yet so far

Gazillions of us were alive then and saw it. I get that you mean the astronauts on that mission though.

I watched this with my family.

by "live" they meant "actually there"

“There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.”~Jim Lovell, someone who made things happen. R.I.P.

Not True in millions of cases. Man landed on the moon in 1969. The math ain't mathin!

God rest the soul of Jim Lovett.

In person?

Yes, Lovell was the last Apollo 8 crew member who witnessed this as it was captured

Another end to another fantastic era of innovation and discovery. Sadly, the likes of which we might not see again for a long time to come.

There are still Apollo astronauts alive who witnessed earthrises over the moon. Just not that particular one, which was photographed by Apollo 8 astronauts.

We took the wrong path.

There are a lot of us who got up in the middle of the night to watch it on TV (a Spartan console TV - black and white)

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Borman, Lovell, Anders! 🥹 Yes, Christmas '68...

Do you mean first-hand?

That’s so sad thinking of it that way

I’m still alive

I did. Was just a kid. However, I loved everything about space and the enormity of it all. We are just a speck in this galaxy of millions more. But what a beautiful gift we’re on.

The only people who witnessed it firsthand were those actually on the ship when the picture was taken. We all shared in the smattering of blurry TV broadcasts, but we didn't truly see it firsthand.

Apologies. Thought it was about ‘everyone’ not just the astronauts.

That's okay. It was poorly phrased. They should have said "firsthand" instead of "live." I do remember the long stretches of "simulation" that we had to watch when there wasn't any actual live feed. Ah, the 60's, when stations could get away with a literal cartoon of a spaceship for hours on end.

Agreed, poor wording. My first thought was, hey I saw that live on TV and I’m alive then realized they meant actually there, on the ship.

And made you think...use your brains. All good. I did the same and then got it. Will this become a lost skill ?? To question, evaluate, problem solve!

And in this case ending with sadness of this reaching the point of truth.

Had to check my pulse for a minute! Then I realized the post was about the photo….and that I have a pretty low heart rate due to regular exercise.

Live as in person.

As Joni Mitchell put it, a chalk mark in a rainstorm.

I did, and I am still alive.

😔🕯️

"And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you – all of you on the good Earth." - Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman His fellow crew included Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders. Godspeed, Jim Lovell. Rest in Peace.

“In person “ might be more suitable

Alive

Except those old enough to be watching TV coverage at the time...I will neither confirm or deny.

Sad Wish I hadn't read this

Tragic

I split hairs.. But - many of us saw it some 2.5 seconds later. I still remember where I was and how I felt that evening in 1968.. Just imagine a time will come when there will be nobody left on Earth, who witnessed it even 2.5 seconds after. I hope Einstein's was correct about 'Space Time..!

I saw it on TV. Guess you are talking about the astronauts in the spaceship.

that is very sad

Or no one left who involved the biggest lie of the century

So how was this picture taken, if it was a hoax? AI? Computer generated?

Time waits for no one. RIP Cap'n Lovell.

Apollo 11 shot.

Yes but there are still several people alive who saw the earth from the moon: David Scott (Apollo 9 and 15), Russell Schweickart (Apollo 9), Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11), Fred Haise (Apollo 13), Charles Duke (Apollo 16), and Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17).

Apollo 9 did not go to the Moon, it was a LEO mission to check out the LM. So Rusty Schweickart did not see the Earth from the Moon.

Buzz Aldrin?

they weren’t on earth at the time either, as you can clearly see from the photo

And more's the pity. A lasting legacy, though. 🌎

Clarification, I saw this live on TV at that moment. Maybe the astronaut hero’s are no longer with us…

I did. We were in Germany, and my father woke me up to watch. And encased in childhood wonder, I was astonished.

Last time I checked, there are still lots of people alive who saw it on TV My parents, just to name two

Sad, that all those guys are gone, but at least we have wonderful memories of them and we don't have to say--- "THANK GAWD that ____ is gone" Which will be on TACOs headstone.

Very thought provoking!

If you look real close you can see me waving up to them. Goodbye to all you guys. You helped make life a little more fun. Ty.

I saw it in the ops room when coming in out of the field in West Germany. The people on the voyage are all gone? How about those command center people?

Some of the people from Mission Control are still alive. Flight Directors Gene Kranz (even if he did not work 8 directly), Gerry Griffin, Flight Controllers John Aaron, Jerry Bostick, Steve Bales, Chuck Dieterich, Ed Fendell - just to name some of the more famous ones.

Wut?! Charlie Duke, Harrison Schmitt, David Scott, and Buzz Aldrin are still with us!

Thankfully, but they weren't on Apollo 8 to witness this view

They saw similar views on their respective missions.

The men who went to the moon were heroes. Many of us watched in rapt amazement their ascent into the stars, their landing & moonwalk, & their return to earth. We have a duty to pass on the feeling that we will always hold to the younger generations - a feeling of hope for humanity.

It is very strange. I saw that but people now continually say to me that things far simpler are ideal or i am chasing perfection

Buzz... Buzz is still alive..

Somebody make a copy of it, quick! Before trump says it’s a lie and destroys it.

I think you meant "nobody alive on Earth..." #AnnoyinglyPendantic

I’m dead? You could’ve at least sent me a telegram 😜

You were on the moon when this photo was taken? 🧐

Hardly—watched it on 📺

Yes, the last surviving astronaut from the Apollo 8 mission, Jim Lovell, just passed away at age 95. He, Frank Borman and Bill Anders, who crewed the Apollo 8 mission, were the first humans to see the Earthrise as they orbited the moon. Astronaut Bill Anders took this famous photo - was there video?

Incorrect. I’m still here.

It’s. still a stunning image!!

So, there is no one older than 56?

Not that were on Apollo 8, no

No, it means that the 3 astronauts who were in the space capsule to take that picture are all gone now. They were the only ones to see that view live.

So when you are watching a sports game on TV, you are not watching it live?

I think you mean "in-person." Yes, there are several people who saw that moment remotely.

It was broadcast live on TV. I remember watching it.

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That’s a very sobering thought.

Gave me a pregnant pause. With history revisionists hard at work, will future generations even know of this country’s true past?

They will if you keep an archive

That’s a sad thought indeed.