Source: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/inside-apollo-8-spacecraft-december-1968/ Credit: NASA

"The most impressive aspect of the flight was [when] we were in lunar orbit. We’d been going backwards and upside down, didn’t really see the Earth or the Sun, and when we rolled around and came around and saw the first Earth rise. [T]hat certainly was, by far, the most impressive thing. To see this very delicate, colorful orb which to me looked like a Christmas tree ornament coming up over this very stark, ugly lunar landscape..." Bill Anders, Apollo 8 LMP, on his thoughts about taking the iconic Earthrise photograph.

[NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project. Edited Oral History Transcript: William A. Anders, Interviewed by Paul Rollins Houston, Texas – 8 October 1997]

RIP to another Apollo legend, 1933-2024.

It was a long time coming!

“I am not in the habit of looking back. When I do I am somewhat amazed that the only child of a dentist and a school teacher from a small town in Oklahoma was able to attend the Naval Academy, serve in the Air Force and fly in space four times.

Through it all… I kept my eyes on the sky. I still do and I hope I always will.” Tom Stafford.

We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race (2002) p. 269 by Thomas P. Stafford with Michael Cassutt.

RIP to an Apollo great (1930-2024)

Credit: Ralph Morse for Life Magazine

Credit: NASA S69-30252 (1969)

My favourite Spartans are BACK!

Pic from @halotheseries insta of the Silver team: John-117, Kai-12, Vannak-134 and Riz-028.

Halo episodes 1 and 2 were tense, action-packed, and thoroughly enjoyable! I cannot wait to see how the story unfolds - well worth the long wait from S1!

RIP you beautiful man. Be Peace.

Credit: The Mandalorian insta

Its mission may have ended with a broken rotor blade, but its legacy continues to fly on wards and upwards. RIP to the little helicopter that could.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

"The greatest moment was what had never been done before in all of history, and that is to get in a spacecraft and take that spacecraft and actually rest it on another object in space. So clearly the touchdown was the moment of greatest anticipation and the moment of greatest satisfaction and relief, and for two non-too-talkative guys, I looked over and patted Neil on the shoulder, we looked at each other, smiled, and then went about what we were doing." Buzz Aldrin on what he thought was the greatest achievement of Apollo 11. (Aldrin, Buzz. Interview. Conducted by Dana Marcotte Kilanowski, September 27, 2003.)

(via Apollo 11 astronaut Aldrin during the May 14, 1969, preflight press conference at MSC - Google Arts & Culture)

Happy birthday to an Apollo great.

Is the Mandalorian season 4 cancelled and we are getting a film instead or will there be a season 4 AND a film?

Please someone clarify?!

Pablo Schreiber and Spartan friend at CCXP23, ramping up Halo season 2 (rumoured release early 2024)

Image is from @officialpabloschreiber insta.

Rumour from: https://premieredate.news/tv-series/8085-halo.html

"Looking back at the Earth on Christmas Eve had a great effect, I think, on all three of us. I can only speak for myself. But it had for me. Because of the wonderment of it and the fact that the Earth looked so lonely in the universe. It’s the only thing with color. All of our emotions were focused back there with our families as well. So that was the most emotional part of the flight for me." CDR Frank Borman (Apollo 8) reflecting on his thoughts of seeing Earth from the lunar horizon.

Oral history interview conducted by Catherine Harwood for NASA Johnson Space Oral History Project, 13 April, 1999.

Image credit: Astronaut Frank Borman, September 1963. Photographer Ralph Morse.

RIP to the no-nonsense CDR of Apollo 8, who along with the audacious team of that historic and iconic lunar mission, not only saved 1968 but brought us Earthrise.

"Let's do the mission".

"What a treat. And so many things, I can't get. I'm like a little kid with ice cream; I don't know where to start." CMP Ken Mattingly, expressing his joy while getting pictures of the moon on day 4 of Apollo 16's lunar mission. RIP.

Source and credit to: Andy Saunders @AndySaunders_1

S69-62237 (1969) --- Astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly II.

Source: NASA Johnson

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Ring of fire!

Screenshot of the livestream from NASA TV of the annular solar eclipse seen in New Mexico, USA (14/09/2023). Sadly, it won't be visible from the UK, but this is a stunning phenomenon and it's great watching it live from NASA tv.

Credit: NASA

Bennu - I think the most fascinating aspect for me is the finding of water-rich minerals within the sample. As Dr. Dante Lauretta succinctly puts it, "The reason that Earth is a habitable world - that we have oceans and lakes and rivers and rain - is because clay minerals, like the ones we're seeing from Bennu, landed on Earth 4.5 billion years ago."

OSIRIS-REx Sample Return (NHQ202309240001) by NASA HQ PHOTO Via Flickr: The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

Ahsoka episodes 5 & 6 - thoughts. *Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers*

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