Apollo 8 Coming Home

Artist: Robert T. McCall, 1969

 

Description: Human eyes directly observed the far side of the Moon for the first time on Christmas Eve 1968. Robert McCall imagines the sight of the rocket engine firing to propel the spacecraft out of lunar orbit for its return to Earth.

 

Image Credit: Robert T. McCall

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Courtesy: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

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