A historian’s look at the origins of the Apollo 8 ‘image of the century’
The recent death of Frank Borman, commander of NASA’s 1968 Apollo 8 mission, has brought attention to this incredible first journey to the Moon. It was eight months before Apollo 11, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first explored the lunar surface. But the impact of Apollo 8’s “Earthrise” image (Earth as seen from the… Read More »