Welcome to the International Space Archives Blog! This is the first of our weekly blog posts. We are just getting started on this ambitious project and we look forward to getting feedback to help us succeed at making this a fantastic site for space geeks (as well regular space fans and average space info-seeking individuals). In addition to our goal of making it easy to find the best space images and videos, and providing contextualized information about space exploration and missions, we plan to create a site that taps into the knowledge of community members by enabling you to contribute comments, stories, and metadata to the images and videos here.
*New this Week*
* For folks who asked about our RSS feed, it is working now.
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*40 Years Ago*
This year marks the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission which landed the first humans on the moon on July 20th, 1969. We will be tracing the history leading to this momentous event each week.
“Apollo 8″:http://internationalspacearchives.com/mission_patches/242 launched on December 21, 1968. Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders became the first humans to enter the Moon’s orbit and see the far side of the Moon. From orbit on Christmas Eve, they made a television broadcast that at the time was the most watched TV program ever. Apollo 8 brought us the first close-up images of the Moon’s surface as well as the first images of our planet from afar. Check out these images of “Earth and Moon”:http://internationalspacearchives.com/assets?query=mission_hierarchy%3A%28Moon+Missions%2FApollo+Program%2FApollo+8%2A%29 as well as actual footage from Apollo 8 in this 28-minute “video”:http://internationalspacearchives.com/assets/600 produced by NASA in 1969.
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