{"id":22969,"date":"2020-12-25T20:14:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T12:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/this-day-in-space-december-24-1968-apollo-8-captures-the-famous-earthrise-photo-around-lunar-orbit\/"},"modified":"2020-12-25T20:14:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T12:14:30","slug":"this-day-in-space-december-24-1968-apollo-8-captures-the-famous-earthrise-photo-around-lunar-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/this-day-in-space-december-24-1968-apollo-8-captures-the-famous-earthrise-photo-around-lunar-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day In Space (December 24, 1968): Apollo 8 captures the famous \u2018Earthrise\u2019 photo around lunar orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image wp-block-image--obfuscated\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1600\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"9400\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2020\/12\/24\/this-day-in-space-apollo-8-captures-the-famous-earthrise-photo-around-lunar-orbit\/earthrise_bw\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Earthrise_BW\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1024\"><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Humans first orbited the Moon on this day in 1968,  and while on their first pass around the backside of the Moon, they first saw with their own eyes Earthrise over the horizon.<\/p>\n<p><ins data-ad-format=\"auto\" class=\"adsbygoogle adsbygoogle-noablate\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7125080057269629\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\" style=\"display: block; 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After a three day trip to get to the Moon, the crew of Apollo 8 was preparing to go around the backside of the Moon for the first time. Behind there, they would need to perform one of the most important task of the mission, firing the main engine to capture themselves in a lunar orbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The kicker, they would be out of contact with mission control during the time, and mission control wouldn\u2019t know how it went until after they emerged from behind the Moon. Luckily if it failed (as long as it wasn\u2019t catastrophic), the crew would return to Earth since they weren\u2019t going fast enough to leave its orbit. As we know, the burn was successful, and afterwards they prepared to see the Earth begin to rise over the horizon of the Moon.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image wp-block-image--obfuscated\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png\" alt=\"Site default logo image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This actually wasn\u2019t the first time an \u201cEarthrise\u201d photo was taken, Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first image of it after being the first satellite to gain orbit around the Moon in 1966. It was a much lower quality image and stuck in black and white, so now that humans were on board with 70 mm Hasselblad camera equipped with color film, we were able to capture much higher quality photos. 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