The Untold Story Of The World's Most Famous Photo

[Playinghardball]

I'm sure you've seen the world's most famous photograph, "Earthrise." It's been on the cover of TIME and on stamps. But did you know it almost didn't happen? This occurred 45 years ago, Christmas Eve, 1968. You have to see the untold story of this iconic shot!

[Blue_Tires]

1. wonderful stuff

although I'll admit when I saw "The World's Most Famous Photo" I instantly thought the sailor kissing the nurse at the end of WWII or the small naked girl in Vietnam with napalm burns

[hunter]

2. My grandfather was an Apollo Project engineer.

He made parts of that spacecraft. He designed them, he touched them, he inspected them.

His home life wasn't great, he was always a bit "eccentric" (to put it mildly, as they did in those days...) but the Apollo Project was the life work he was most proud of.

A large "Earthrise" photo was displayed in his home, along with his Apollo 8 medallion, (carried metal in this medallion on man's first flight to the Moon) which I have.

He was an Army Air Force officer during World War II, not flying airplanes as he'd dreamed of because he didn't pass the physical, but nevertheless he had some exciting adventures worthy of a novel or two. But he didn't talk about that. Dead secrets and silence. No names, no stories, no leads, nothing.

But he'd become very animated and happy talking about his life as a re-minted civilian working on NASA space projects.

[Sherman A1]

3. Thanks for Posting!

Cool!