Space

I believe in other life forms, I’m just not sure when they will arrive here on earth. I just have one dream before I die, and that’s to see an alemow (alien).

Interesting part starts at 3min 42sec

Piped link: https://piped.video/watch?v=hnRdIMklPow&t=222

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16605534

Chinese Lander Instrument Detects Negative Ions on Far Side of Moon

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/13128061

archive link: https://archive.ph/JlyLf

SEATTLE (AP) — William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.

His son, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Greg Anders, confirmed the death to The Associated Press. “The family is devastated,” he said. “He was a great pilot and we will miss him terribly.” William Anders, a retired major general, has said the photo was his most significant contribution to the space program along with making sure the Apollo 8 command module and service module worked.

The photograph, the first color image of Earth from space, is one of the most important photos in modern history for the way it changed how humans viewed the planet. The photo is credited with sparking the global environmental movement for showing how delicate and isolated Earth appeared from space.

NASA Administrator and former Sen. Bill Nelson said Anders embodied the lessons and the purpose of exploration.

“He traveled to the threshold of the Moon and helped all of us see something else: ourselves,” Nelson wrote on the social platform X.

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The article referenced:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad34d5 (open access)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16378924

Sped up footage from Chang'e 6 lander descent

I sure do hope Dr. Zubrin lives to see the day humans set foot on Mars.