Page 19 - Bill Anders News Today

Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman looks back at the landmark mission that reached orbit around the Moon on Christmas Eve 1968.

  Last week actor William Shatner, famous for playing Captain Kirk in Star Trek, flew into space onboard a Blue Origin capsule, making headlines all around the world. But Monday October 18th will be the 58th anniversary of a space mission not many people even know about - the flight of the first, and so…

Francis French says William Shatner's eloquent description of his trip into space stokes the imagination

During the Apollo 8 mission in December 1968, Bill Anders takes the iconic earthrise photograph. This image shows our world as a colorful oasis hovering in the dark void above the gray lunar horizon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969, achieve moonfall with the Eagle. Aldrin’s first words after stepping on the moon are. “Beautiful view.” Then Neil asks, “Isn’t that something? Magnificent sight out here.” Buzz responds, “Ma...

Generation Apollo: Coming of age inside Americas space race By: CNN By Samantha Bresnahan, CNN (CNN) -- They are the names written in history books: Armstrong, Aldrin, Lovell, Chaffee, Bean, Cernan, Anders, Griffin, Carr. Their stories of NASAs Apollo program in the 1960s and 70s are the stuff of legend and lore. The telling has mostly come from the astronauts themselves, or members of Mission Control, and occasionally from the astronauts spouses....

Sur YouTube, lever de rideau sur le “Lever de Terre” 6 minutes à regarder Partager NASA Très jolie promenade qui remonte à la naissance de la fameuse photo aujourd’hui reprise par les mouvements écolo. Sébastien Carassou revient sur un cliché qui a bouleversé le monde. Dans une magnifique plongée onirique aux archives pertinentes, le vidéaste raconte les origines de la photo capturée par Bill Anders en 1968 baptisée à postériori Lever de Terre. L’occasion de retracer...

NASA Fast Facts elisfkc2 / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Timeline October 1, 1958 – The official start of NASA. October 7, 1958 – NASA announces Project Mercury. The Mercury project’s objectives are to place a human spacecraft into orbital flight around Earth, observe human performance in such conditions and recover the human and the spacecraft safely. April 9, 1959 – The...

    Nobel-Prize laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, for whom NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory was named, described black holes as “the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.”  Strange Cosmic Paradoxes These  strange cosmic paradoxes, which Princeton quantum physicist John Archibald Wheeler coined “black holes,” have no memory, yet are said to contain the earliest memories of the unive...

NASA Fast Facts There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Timeline October 1, 1958 – The official start of NASA. October 7, 1958 – NASA announces Project Mercury. The Mercury project’s objectives are to place a human spacecraft into orbital flight around Earth, observe human performance in such conditions and recover the human and the spacecraft safely. April 9, 1959 – The Mercury Seven are introduced as th...

NASA Fast Facts There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Timeline October 1, 1958 – The official start of NASA. October 7, 1958 – NASA announces Project Mercury. The Mercury project’s objectives are to place a human spacecraft into orbital flight around Earth, observe human performance in such conditions and recover the human and the spacecraft safely. April 9, 1959 – The Mercury Seven are introduced as th...