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Topic: Photo of the week 246e (July 23, 2009)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 07-22-2009 11:53 PM
   
 Forty years ago today, the Apollo 11 astronauts photographed this view of the earth as they were returning from the moon. Visible is the southern portion of India and the Indian Ocean. Ed Hengeveld |
mikepf
Member Posts: 441
From: San Jose, California, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 07-23-2009 12:09 PM
That is a beautiful photo I don't remember seeing before. I'll use it as an excuse to give you one of my occasional thank yous for your work on the Photo of the Week feature. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 07-23-2009 02:32 PM
Glad you enjoy them, thanks. |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1587
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 07-23-2009 11:20 PM
I wonder if they fully grasped that this would be their last day of their spaceflight careers. I'm sure Collins did since he planned to retire. |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 07-24-2009 06:19 AM
I think before they even left for the moon, they all figured they were tagged for being John Glenn dolls if they succeeded. |
AstroAutos
Member Posts: 803
From: Co. Monaghan, Republic of Ireland
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 07-24-2009 11:45 AM
I also always look in on your photos Ed, but never reply.I have never seen this photo before, and I'd just like to say a big thank you for all of your outstanding images!  |
robsouth
Member Posts: 769
From: West Midlands, UK
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 07-25-2009 12:11 PM
Some nice images there Ed and a great way to remember Apollo 11 T+40 years. |
John Charles
Member Posts: 339
From: Houston, Texas, USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 07-25-2009 11:04 PM
quote:
Originally posted by heng44:
Forty years ago today, the Apollo 11 astronauts photographed this view of the earth as they were returning from the moon. Visible is the southern portion of India and the Indian Ocean.
Ed, great photo, but I wonder if it was not perhaps mis-dated by NASA? On July 23, they were still 1 day -- and I-don't-know-how-many 10s of thousands of miles -- out from Earth. This looks like a post TLI (July 16) or pre-EI (July 24) image, unless they were packing a really long focal-length lens. |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 07-26-2009 02:26 AM
John, this is definitely a before-reentry photo. It is one of the last photos on magazine AS11-44, which shows undocking in lunar orbit, followed by rendezvous the next day and then post TEI views of the moon getting smaller and the earth getting bigger and bigger. |
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