This day in space

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 12/24/2019 at 07:40 • Filed to: Space, The Final Frontier

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Earthrise, 24/12/1968

OPPOsaurus WRX > Cé hé sin 12/24/2019 at 08:09

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if only there was enough of this to do posts like ttyymmnn’s ‘this week in aviation’

DipodomysDeserti > Cé hé sin 12/24/2019 at 08:30

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Boxer_4 > Cé hé sin 12/24/2019 at 09:01

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It’s currently the lock screen on my phone.

Ash78, voting early and often > Cé hé sin 12/24/2019 at 09:55

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“Mission Control, from up here we can’t even smell the hippies. It’s just beautiful.”

I think every single Apollo astronaut talked about how this perspective was so life changing. We take it for granted now.

facw > Cé hé sin 12/24/2019 at 10:40

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It’s an astounding image, but why the postage stamp? Here’s two versions direct from NASA (though honestly the version Boxer_4 posted is more aesthetically pleasing than either IMO) :

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1249.html

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/apollo-8-earthrise

Cé hé sin > facw 12/24/2019 at 14:10

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I tried four but each of them came up that size regardless of resolution!

user314 > Cé hé sin 12/24/2019 at 16:13

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Kinja’s gonna Kinja...