Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo from Apollo 8?
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Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo from Apollo 8?
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Re: Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo from Apollo 8?
#2The Earthrise reconstruction by Wright and Gallagher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-vOscpiNc
Re: Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo from Apollo 8?
#3Video of the Earthrise he's talking about in the article
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-vOscpiNc
I just finished Andrew's A Man on the Moon book a couple of weeks ago and I throughly enjoyed it.
Re: Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo from Apollo 8?
#4Interesting story. I remember having heard on radio another story about tang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_(drink)). Excessive consumption was causing flatulence that was the cause of a dispute during a space mission. I was not able to find anything about it using google.
Re: Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo from Apollo 8?
#5Interesting story. I remember having heard on radio another story about tang ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_(drink) ). Excessive consumption was causing flatulence that was the cause of a dispute during a space mission. I was not able to find anything about it using google.
Re: Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo from Apollo 8?
#6Interesting story. I remember having heard on radio another story about tang ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_(drink) ). Excessive consumption was causing flatulence that was the cause of a dispute during a space mission. I was not able to find anything about it using google.
Skylab had a flatulence problem: https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4208/ch16.htm
Re: Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo from Apollo 8?
#7I'm glad they got the Earthrise Photo, because otherwise, six months before Apollo 11 gave the world a line which even impressed the Soviets, Apollo 8 would be remembered for this cringey, inane stuff[1]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToHhQUhdyBY
[1] To avoid misunderstanding: this isn't an atheist/anti-religion post, it's about the aptness of such an utterance by personnel on a top scientific mission, from one of the world's top scientific agencies.
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Re: Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo from Apollo 8?
#8I'm glad they got the Earthrise Photo, because otherwise, six months before Apollo 11 gave the world a line which even impressed the Soviets, Apollo 8 would be remembered for this cringey, inane stuff[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToHhQUhdyBY [1] To avoid misunderstanding: this isn't an atheist/anti-religion post, it's about the aptness of such an utterance by personnel on a top scientific mission, from one of…
The concern has been raised before: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/3...
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Re: Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo from Apollo 8?
#9I'm glad they got the Earthrise Photo, because otherwise, six months before Apollo 11 gave the world a line which even impressed the Soviets, Apollo 8 would be remembered for this cringey, inane stuff[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToHhQUhdyBY [1] To avoid misunderstanding: this isn't an atheist/anti-religion post, it's about the aptness of such an utterance by personnel on a top scientific mission, from one of…
The concern has been raised before: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/3... (eta: Nothing earns downvotes on Hacker News like complaining about downvotes does. If getting downvoted here bothers you - and God alone knows why it would - then complaining about downvotes is a habit worth avoiding.)
Thanks. I wasn't aware of that. I just remember the first time I ever saw that footage, couldn't believe what I was hearing, and haven't forgotten it.
My own objection isn't even about government/state promotion of religion - though I'm not particularly a fan of that - it's that a scientific body like NASA comes out with "God created Earth".
And I wouldn't even mind that if NASA stated it was their official position. Then anyone is free to decide on their scientific credibility.
Instead we had an organization making itself look ridiculous by unnecessarily pandering to beliefs it couldn't possibly officially hold.
Re: Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo from Apollo 8?
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Thanks. I wasn't aware of that. I just remember the first time I ever saw that footage, couldn't believe what I was hearing, and haven't forgotten it. My own objection isn't even about government/state promotion of religion - though I'm not particularly a fan of that - it's that a scientific body like NASA comes out with "God created Earth". And I wouldn't even mind that if NASA stated it was their official position.…
You are conflating the official position of the organization with a statement made by one of its employees on company time. The linked decision thoroughly considers this point as well, and finds it unconvincing. NASA's official allegiance in matters of faith was found to be as nonexistent as befits a US government agency. The court recognizes that sometimes people say things of their own accord, for which they alone are responsible. It seems a sensible enough analysis.
By modern mores, of course such a thing would be a firing offense and the seed crystal around which much Buzzfeed and Twitter would briefly accrete. (It would be a firing offense because it would be, &c., &c. I suppose it's only a mercy none of the Apollo 8 crew were seen in public to wear shirts their friends had made for them.) But we here discuss a historical event, now some fifty years in the past. The application of modern mores to historical events is called "presentism", a word whose pejorative connotation is well earned by the fact that such tendentious analysis generates only heat, never light.
And leaving fallacies of historiography aside, as far as I'm concerned, the employees of any past or future NASA capable of carrying out a manned lunar mission can quote whatever scripture they like from lunar orbit, because it strikes me as absurd unto risibility to be more concerned with their quoting scripture than with their doing so from lunar orbit. But I am certainly a very strange man, and will not in any case be consulted, and what people say will continue for probably some time to outweigh unto negligibility what those same people do. So it goes.