Imagining Earth at Macaulay Honors College
Imagining Earth at Macaulay Honors College

Resources

For more information on the Earthrise photograph, click on the images below:

A screenshot of a piece in the New York Times entitled Looking Earthward from Space, which features the Earth Rise photo in the background.

 

 

 

 

 

Rory Kennedy and Mark Bailey, “Looking Earthward from Space,” New York Times, October 3, 2018.

A screen capture of a New York Times article entitled "Earth Will Survive. We May Not."

 

 

 

 

Adam Frank, “Earth Will Survive. We May Not.” New York Times, June 12, 2018.

 

A screen shot of an article on the NASA website entitled "Apollo Astronaut Shares Story of NASA's Earthrise Photo"

“Apollo Astronaut Shares Story of NASA’s Earthrise Photo.” NASA, March 29, 2012.

 

A screenshot of the Smithsonian website where the article entitled "Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo from Apollo 8" is located.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andrew Chalkin, “Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo from Apollo 8?” Smithsonian, January 2018.

 

A screenshot of the article from the Washington Post entitled "The Secret of the Famous Earthrise Photo"

 

 

 

 

 

Gordon M. Thomas, letter to Washington Post, June 7, 2018.

More recommended reading:

Edgar M. Cortright, ed., Exploring Space with a Camera (Washington: NASA, 1968)
Michael D. King, Claire L. Parkinson, Kim C. Partington, Robin G. Williams, eds., Our Changing Planet: The View from Space (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Oran W. Nicks, ed., This Island Earth (Washington: NASA, 1970)
Robert Poole, Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)
Susan Schulten, A History of America in 100 Maps (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018)
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, “Looking at Earth”
Frank White, The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987)