March 2015
ESA’s Clean Space Initiative and the role of the LCA tool
...movement have always shared a strong connection. Iconic images like Earthrise or the Pale Blue Dot helped us realise the fragility... debris mitigation, and active space debris removal. The iconic Earthrise image taken by the crew of Apollo 8 as they ...
May 2024
Spaceflight revolution on a shoestring
...provide a boost to global action on the climate and conservation. There is a historical precedent for this. The famous ‘Earthrise’ photograph, taken by astronaut William Anders from Apollo 8 in 1968, became the icon of the environment movement almost...
03 October 2021
Back to Earth
...spells it out further. Referring to the inspiration she gained from the famous ‘Earthrise’ photo from Apollo 8, the author hopes to “inspire an ‘Earthrise moment’ in each of us”, because there is “no backup plan” should the Earth become uninhabitable...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... what you have back there on Earth.” NASA’s high resolution ‘Earthris’ image recreates the most iconic Earthrise photo taken by the crew of the Apollo 8 mission as the spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve1968. Nothing...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... 11 photos was a powerful message and Apollo 8’s Bill Anders said of his famous 1968 lunar orbit photo, ‘Earthrise’: “We came all this way to explore the Moon and the most important thing is that we discovered the...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... settlements located at Lagrange Point L5. This quest for the ‘meaning’ of spaceflight reached a peak with the famous Earthrise photo that was taken during the Apollo 8 mission. In response, author and poet Archibald MacLeish wrote...
