As of this week, there is nobody left on Earth who witnessed this moment live.
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For those who don't get it - this is the moment 'Earthrise' was captured, during Apollo 8, December 23, 1968. One of the most influential photographs in history. The last surviving member of the crew, Jim Lovell, died Thursday.
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It'll all vanish into the ether, eventually. So, what's the point of all this killing? 🤔
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Millions watched it live on television. Surely you can’t be serious.
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🙏🏻❤️
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Got a bit of a lump in my throat reading your post. 😢
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Huh???
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Damn. This post is how I found out that Jim Lovell died. I figured he was immortal. I hope he still gets the trip to the moon that he so richly deserves. RIP to a giant.
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raises hand
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You mean the old guy in the John Lewis advert is dead?!😱
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I think it says much and more for the power of the photograph that it shall endure for so long after those who witnessed it in person passed. Truly a gift to humanity from the space program and may the brave astronauts who took that picture so long ago rest easy
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#ChronoMedia with #Apollo8 footage mprove.de/chrono?ll=29...
#earthrise
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Er.....i did ,i was 7 lying on sofa with measels watching on a B/W tv
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🌹RIP
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It was on here.
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Awwwww.
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RIP Jim Lovell now you can finally have that conversation with Sir Isaac Newton
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borMAN ANDers LOVEll
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Lovell was one of my favorite astronauts when I was a kid. Amazing guy. Sad he’s gone.
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I think he’s referring to those who were actually there, in space, when the photograph was taken.
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Just as well he took her photo 😀
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If you're talking about the 1969 Apollo Moon landing, that can't be true — my mother watched the Moon landing live, and was 12 at the time. Is this photo from a much earlier milestone? On a side-note, it's a shame that nobody has walked on another world since 1972. :(
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I returned home to Essex from Scotland by train and at 17 years old heard all the live stuff of the landing. I was not allowed to observe the moon walk, and probably had to wait till after tea to see it.
Like yesterday, so exciting to me.
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My Dad designed one of the re entry consumable shield layers. It looked like copper honeycomb. Sadly on the move from Boston to Berkeley, that one box (with the coin collection in it) never arrived. It was probably tossed as no value seen in it.
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Thank you and RIP.
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The very short list of people who both went to space and got to see themselves played by Tom Hanks in the movies...
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If you chose to make Artemis rather than Hail Mary, a lot of fictional people would witness that
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RIP Jim Lovell, what he and the other two went through in space, is a miracle they made it back to earth.
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Great man. 😔
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Who says?
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Cool af. It also looks like a man’s face holding an animal or really bushy long hair. It’s a side view of him. But damn it is so cool. Be safe
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Been a fan of the era and the way these were captured, and how, it is a feat of engineering and endeavour. If I had to pick three survival, it would be Bligh, Shackleton and Apollo 13. (obvs people can have their own picks.) But 13 I would have in top.
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I was 10. I actually watched it. It scared me. My parents always encouraged me to watch to view historical moments.
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...and in person that's been made public
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Oh how sad. 😢
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Profound and very sad.
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In person
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Well of course not..live. Trying to get attention, or what?
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Are you high? There are millions if not billions.
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Yes we keep losing some of our best
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Hey, I don’t plan on going anywhere!!
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That took me a second, cause I’m old.
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My favorite moment from the movie Apollo 13. When Lovell, Swigert, and Haise had survived reentry. Our student body was together to witness Apollo 13 splashdown, 1970. A moment when the entire world believed that American Democracy was the pinnacle of human potential. What today has become a joke.
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😢😞
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Those men were genuine heroes.
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Does live on TV count? July 69.
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It was a time of great hope for the future – even with all the turmoil on earth then. Who would’ve thought we would be where we are now.
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lets celebrate this moment by putting nuclear reactors on the moon
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Some say there never was...
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I witnessed this moment…but from a different perspective.
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Fun fact: the earth doesn’t actually rise on the moon. It appeared to rise for Apollo 8 astronauts because of their orbit around the moon. The moon is tidally phase locked to the earth. So from any fixed position on the earth side of the moon the earth is fixed in the sky. It never rises or sets.
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Wow. The famous Earth rise photo. Al Gore used this in his slides for @climaterealityproject.org leadership training. It set the tone for who we are (we are one), what we’re fighting for and how vulnerable and resilient our precious earth is. We should revisit that perspective more frequently.
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There’s a wonderful Space Museum in Bonne Terre Missouri. The curator Earl will spend so much time sharing info—you should visit!!
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The most interesting thing was no one anticipated that this view would happen.
The immediate reaction of the crew was get the film cameras.
Thank the crew for recognizing the importance of this view and shooting it.
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Whew! Deep...
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Which is sad
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My favorite picture of all time!!!
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R.I.P.Jim Lovell.
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Did Kubrick die?
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They were exciting times. Growing up at the same time as the Space Program excited all us kids. The Astronauts were always heroes to us.
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What about Buzz?
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I met Jim while looking at Bill's picture (Bill was first) at Heritage Flight. Jim laughed that he was 2nd but his was more famous because it was color.
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Nuclear Reactor and 0 water so stupid.
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Well... not according to bozos in the WH claiming we have guys up there currently and have had them there for some time.
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RIP Jim Lovell.
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Puts it in perspective….
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.... from this location (to clarify). I remember this view from my parents TV (though not in color; they could not yet afford a color TV. Saw it in color the next day in the newspaper).
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The last man to see this view alive died. Somehow that makes me feel even more marooned.
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I think Buzz Sldrin is still alive, isn't he?
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When Anders was loading the camera with film Jim Lovell said something on the lines of, Hurry up Bill, we're losing it!" Anders calm reply, "Settle down Jim."
What those men accomplished and witnessed is why I am so deeply saddened that NASA and the Sciences were gutted financially by Trump admin.
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I misunderstood this post for a second. Witnessed this moment live to me includes seeing the live broadcast on TV. Actually you mean that all the people who physically went to the moon and captured that moment are no longer alive.
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Rip Apollo 8 crew 🏁
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A very poignant point. However, the last thing we need is a group of super-rich space tourists blasting off in private rockets for their own selfish gratification. We should all pay tribute, instead, to the very brave men who were true pioneers in the 1960s and 70s.
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I beg to differ
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Hey...I was 4 and watched a little white dot moving across our B/W tv.
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☝🏻💯
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As a child, I had a poster of this picture in my bedroom.
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There were giants in those days.
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All the rest of humanity is contained within this photograph.
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More than keeping the photo alive, it's my profile picture. Waterskied with Lovell's kids in Timber Cove 2 miles from JSC. Although among the New Nine, he was definitely what Thomas Wolfe was talking about. A Gemini hero, an Apollo explorer. RIP Commander.
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RIP Jim.
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Well that's probably a blessing since we are officially murdering science and volunteering for the dark ages
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Took me second. You meant none of the crew is left.
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I'm still here.
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That’s a very modern ‘historic’ take. Billions won’t know but that’s a massive bit of history…
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That's so weird. They like the event have been lost to time. It's very.... Sobering, sad, and detached feeling
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There are still a few living Apollo astronauts who saw this view of Earth.
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😢RIP
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That particular view was witnessed in person only by those who flew Apollo missions.
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The actual people who could attest to the facts of the moon walks are almost all gone; the bulwark of the living truth will go with them and the mad conspiracy theories may flourish in their absence. The archive, the visual record, and the testimonies have never been more important.
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I watched it on TV.
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Don’t tell this to Buzz Aldrin
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I watched all the moon stuff on tv when it was happening. Sad that all the astronauts are gone.
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Taken aboard Apollo 8 by Bill Anders, this iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon, with astronauts Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell aboard.
www.nasa.gov/image-article/apollo-8-earthrise 🌍
Image Credit: NASA
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Is this the photo Michael Collins took?
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That's kinda sad.
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Awwww took me a minute but now I get your meaning. That is sad.
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Enter all the people claiming it never happened
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Sad and true.
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Wrong. Count me as a witness. Many others also.
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Sobering fact. RIP Jim.
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So sad.
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that does put our efforts as a nation with NASA in a time perspective. What this country is doing to space and exploration in its privatization push is a mess.
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December 23, 1998 with my 5 month old Grandson, Gabriel
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🫶🏻 RIP
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Even more proof devolution has is well & truly underway (that and MAGA). In 50 years we’ll be sacrificing virgins (if we can find any) to the Sun & Moon Gods. #StupidEpidemic
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I watched it on TV, at 4yrs old with my parents.
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Sad that we're going back into the dark ages again...
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I hope the trump admin doesn't nix the first woman of color to walk on the moon.
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I was already a "space" nut when this happened but was mesmerised by the photos and still "to this day" can stare at it in awe!
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As someone whose 1st grade teacher wheeled a CRT TV in to show all us kids the footage, I was confused by your wording as well. I think that "witnessed this moment *in person" might have clarified what you meant
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Feels close, yet so far
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Gazillions of us were alive then and saw it. I get that you mean the astronauts on that mission though.
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I watched this with my family.
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Sorry, just realized your point. None of the lunar mission astronauts are still living with the passing of Lovell.
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That’s BS! The last time I checked, I’m alive and I remember watching this!! What is this? Some kind of Trumpian history?
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“There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.”~Jim Lovell, someone who made things happen. R.I.P.
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Not True in millions of cases. Man landed on the moon in 1969. The math ain't mathin!
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God rest the soul of Jim Lovett.
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In person?
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Another end to another fantastic era of innovation and discovery. Sadly, the likes of which we might not see again for a long time to come.
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There are still Apollo astronauts alive who witnessed earthrises over the moon. Just not that particular one, which was photographed by Apollo 8 astronauts.
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We took the wrong path.
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There are a lot of us who got up in the middle of the night to watch it on TV (a Spartan console TV - black and white)
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Borman, Lovell, Anders! 🥹 Yes, Christmas '68...
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Do you mean first-hand?
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That’s so sad thinking of it that way
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I’m still alive
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I did. Was just a kid. However, I loved everything about space and the enormity of it all. We are just a speck in this galaxy of millions more. But what a beautiful gift we’re on.
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I did, and I am still alive.
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"And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you – all of you on the good Earth." - Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman
His fellow crew included Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders. Godspeed, Jim Lovell. Rest in Peace.
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“In person “ might be more suitable
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Alive
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Except those old enough to be watching TV coverage at the time...I will neither confirm or deny.
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Sad Wish I hadn't read this
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Tragic
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I split hairs..
But - many of us saw it some 2.5 seconds later. I still remember where I was and how I felt that evening in 1968..
Just imagine a time will come when there will be nobody left on Earth, who witnessed it even 2.5 seconds after.
I hope Einstein's was correct about 'Space Time..!
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I saw it on TV. Guess you are talking about the astronauts in the spaceship.
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that is very sad
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Or no one left who involved the biggest lie of the century
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Time waits for no one. RIP Cap'n Lovell.
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Apollo 11 shot.
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Yes but there are still several people alive who saw the earth from the moon: David Scott (Apollo 9 and 15), Russell Schweickart (Apollo 9), Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11), Fred Haise (Apollo 13), Charles Duke (Apollo 16), and Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17).
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Buzz Aldrin?
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they weren’t on earth at the time either, as you can clearly see from the photo
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And more's the pity. A lasting legacy, though. 🌎
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Clarification, I saw this live on TV at that moment. Maybe the astronaut hero’s are no longer with us…
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I did. We were in Germany, and my father woke me up to watch. And encased in childhood wonder, I was astonished.
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Last time I checked, there are still lots of people alive who saw it on TV My parents, just to name two
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Sad, that all those guys are gone, but at least we have wonderful memories of them and we don't have to say--- "THANK GAWD that ____ is gone" Which will be on TACOs headstone.
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Very thought provoking!
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If you look real close you can see me waving up to them. Goodbye to all you guys. You helped make life a little more fun. Ty.
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I saw it in the ops room when coming in out of the field in West Germany. The people on the voyage are all gone? How about those command center people?
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Wut?! Charlie Duke, Harrison Schmitt, David Scott, and Buzz Aldrin are still with us!
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The men who went to the moon were heroes. Many of us watched in rapt amazement their ascent into the stars, their landing & moonwalk, & their return to earth. We have a duty to pass on the feeling that we will always hold to the younger generations - a feeling of hope for humanity.
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It is very strange. I saw that but people now continually say to me that things far simpler are ideal or i am chasing perfection
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Buzz... Buzz is still alive..
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Somebody make a copy of it, quick! Before trump says it’s a lie and destroys it.
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I think you meant "nobody alive on Earth..." #AnnoyinglyPendantic
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I’m dead? You could’ve at least sent me a telegram 😜
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Yes, the last surviving astronaut from the Apollo 8 mission, Jim Lovell, just passed away at age 95. He, Frank Borman and Bill Anders, who crewed the Apollo 8 mission, were the first humans to see the Earthrise as they orbited the moon. Astronaut Bill Anders took this famous photo - was there video?
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Incorrect. I’m still here.
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It’s. still a stunning image!!
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So, there is no one older than 56?
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I think you mean "in-person." Yes, there are several people who saw that moment remotely.
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It was broadcast live on TV. I remember watching it.
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That’s a very sobering thought.
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I've heard this described as the greatest photograph in human history. Considering what it took to achieve it, it has a strong case.
