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Apollo 8

Earthrise, Revisited

April 23, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter On December 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, William Anders and Jim Lovell were the first humans to witness an Earthrise as our home planet came up over the lunar horizon. The photos they captured were the first of their [...]

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A Conversation with Jim Lovell, part 2: Looking Back

September 27, 2010

Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell was awarded the Lincoln Leadership Prize by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum foundation last week, and while humbled to receive the award, Lovell said he really is just an ordinary person. “I was just at the right place at the right time with the right credentials; there was nothing [...]

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A Conversation with Apollo’s Jim Lovell, part 1: NASA’s Future

September 23, 2010

Springfield, Illinois is a quiet, historic town that clings fervently to its association with Abraham Lincoln. If you want Civil War era history and desire to know anything about Lincoln, you can find it in Springfield, especially at the outstanding new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Musuem. So, it’s not often that an astronaut shows [...]

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Apollo 8 Photos

August 27, 2010

Here are some cool Apollo 8 photos. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”. This spectacular image of the earth as seen from the moon was taken by the astronauts onboard the Apollo 8 space [...]

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