Every image taken during the Apollo program is now available online.
Every image taken during the Apollo program is now available online.
I especially like this image, taken by Frank Borman, seconds before Bill Anders took the more famous version, which you will note is oriented here correctly, as Anders took it, with the horizon vertical.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Every image taken during the Apollo program is now available online.
I especially like this image, taken by Frank Borman, seconds before Bill Anders took the more famous version, which you will note is oriented here correctly, as Anders took it, with the horizon vertical.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The vertical orientation is correct, but the horizontal orientation looks better.
“The vertical orientation is correct, but the horizontal orientation looks better.”
That is the perspective of an earthbound person. As I noted in Genesis, a spacefarer would see it as Anders did, with the Earth, the Apollo capsule, and the Moon all different objects in space orbiting each other. He saw the Earth coming around the waist of the Moon, just as the Apollo capsule orbited it. Thus, he took the picture with the horizon vertical to the right.
The future explorers of the solar system, born and bred in space, will see it as he does, and they will think that is the better view.
“That is the perspective of an earthbound person. ”
Well, I am. Many works of science fiction have included derogatory references to Earth-bound people as ‘Earthers’, or ‘ground-pounders’, or ‘dirt-siders’. I have no doubt that if the future holds as we want there will be a rift between those on the planet and those who are not. But that time is not now. I still prefer the horizontal orientation.