forty years ago this Sunday, the Apollo 8 spacecraft blasted off for the moon, carrying astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders – who would go on to take the famous ‘earthrise’ photograph from lunar orbit. it marked the first human mission ever leave the earth for deep space, the first time anyone could see and photograph the whole earth, and the first time anyone saw the dark side of the moon; all welcome Christmas distractions after a turbulent year. re-live the journey at NASA’s image archive, have a great holiday and we’ll see you in the year 2009
_artist’s concept of Apollo 8 Command Module (NASA)
_Apollo 8 on pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center
_Apollo 8 Saturn V launch (with moon added by NASA)
_earthrise seen from Apollo 8 (NASA)
_artist’s concept of Apollo 8 jettisoning panels (NASA)
_Apollo 8 re-entering the earth’s atmosphere (NASA)
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