Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
The space race was a big deal back then
Russia has got into space first and both Russia and the US were desperate to raise their flag on the noon first
If they hadn't made it the Russians would have made sure the world knew
not to circle back to artemis ii but it still doesn’t feel real to me that they went all the way around the moon, came back to earth at like 25,000 mph basically wrapped in a fireball… and now they’re just back home like normal people. walking their dogs. eating dinner. talking to their kids.