April 2021
Making space part of the everyday European agenda
... fragile our planet is and how much we should look after it. The Apollo missions and the photos of Earthrise were some of the initiators of the environmental movement, bringing home to people for the first time that...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
... excited by its potential to bring us closer to imaging an exoplanet in detail, at a resolution comparable to the well-known Apollo 8 Earthrise photo,” Derleth said. For a full list of NIAC 2020 Phase I, Phase II and Phase III Selections, click ...
11 August 2025
Saying goodbye to my favourite astronaut
... of Apollo 8, Lovell was part of the first crew to orbit the Moon – a mission that famously delivered the “Earthrise” photograph and a new perspective on our planet’s fragility. It was Apollo 13, however, that defined his public legacy...
22 April 2020
Happy Earth Day 2020!
... to new ways to mobilize the world to action." Participants are also encouraged to share the hashtags #EarthDay2020 and #EARTHRISE "in a collective call for transformative action for our planet".
20 May 2022
Reaching for the Moon
...; a Soviet “engineer” with Sputnik; Explorer 1 held high by Pickering, Van Allen and von Braun; the Mercury 7; Earthrise; Aldrin and the flag… Worse still, they are poorly reproduced on that sepia-toned paper that...
