Earthrise! The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 8

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

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🗓️ 19 December 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This is the 50th anniversary of the most audacious space mission in history. Apollo 8 blazed a path for the first moon landing seven months later, and gave a troubled nation reason for hope and pride. Author Robert Kurson has written Rocket Men as a tribute to--and chronicle of—the mission and the people who made it happen. The new edition of The Planetary Report is now available to all, according to Senior editor Emily Lakdawalla. Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts also celebrates Apollo 8 in this week’s What’s Up. Learn more at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/1219-2018-robert-kurson-apollo-8.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The 50th anniversary of Earthrise this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.
0:18.0	Our guest believes Apollo 8's heroin and triumphant 1968 journey to the moon
0:24.0	was the greatest space journey ever made by humans.
0:27.0	He's not alone.
0:28.0	Robert Curson will share stories
0:30.0	from his terrific book,
0:32.0	Rocketman, and he'll tell us about the three
0:34.6	explorers who made the trip. Bruce Betts braves a bad cold to share the night sky
0:39.7	with us along with a new space trivia contest and much more and in moments we'll get a
0:44.9	report from Emily Lochuala about the brand new edition of the planetary
0:49.5	report that is available to everyone online.
0:53.0	Here's something I'm very grateful for and rather proud of.
0:56.0	Our Associate producer Mary Liz Bender has written a blog post that collects 16 of the very best episodes of Planetary Radio, one for each year we've been doing
1:06.8	the show.
1:07.8	You'll find it at Planetary.org.
1:11.1	And we continue in this new era of the Planetary Report for which E wonderful paper copy of the magazine, but you've just posted everything to planetary.org.
1:25.8	Tell us about this issue.
1:27.6	This issue is titled Where Life Began and on the cover of the issue is the historic Apollo 8 Earthrise portrait because it's now the 50th anniversary of the capturing and publication of that image that really changed our perspective on Earth as a fragile blue world
1:45.0	floating in the blackness of space.
1:47.0	For the cover, I had it reprocessed by an amateur who did a really nice job with it,
1:52.0	Sean Doran. Using that image for the cover really
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