January 2019
Space for Art – Love letter to Earth
..., we are also looking for the connection back to ourselves - to home. There is no better example of this than the ‘Earthrise’ moment experienced by the Apollo 8 crew on 24 December 1968, awestruck by the beauty of their home planet rising above...
June 2018
We live on a planet!
...Earth as a whole planet, and witness an Earthrise. The ‘Earthrise’ image taken by astronaut Bill Anders has ... of space is how we rediscover ourselves here on Earth. The Earthrise image from the Moon was certainly one of the most powerful ‘rediscovery...
March 2022
What space taught me about water
... from her own spaceflight experience and reflecting on the significance of the iconic ‘Earthrise’ photo from Apollo 8, the author hopes to inspire an ‘Earthrise moment’ in each of us to take on our most important role as crewmates, not passengers...
November 2019
Space for Art – Reflections on the Moon
... of those first lunar missions - Apollo 8 and the iconic Earthrise image, Apollo 11 and the first Moon landing, and over the...8 mission, she saw William Anders’ iconic photograph Earthrise and began to understand how powerful this perspective could ...
May 2019
Space for Art – Astronauts and artists
... poems ‘Perspective’ is reproduced here. The Apollo 8 crew shared their experience with us visually, through the iconic Earthrise image that I wrote about in my last Space for Art column and their Christmas message, a reading from...
November 2018
Creating the ‘Space for Art Foundation’
... - Spaceship Earth As we gather the artwork for Exploration and Dreamer, we are also inviting children to participate in our Earthrise-Spaceship Earth project. This project is in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission to the Moon and...
