Earthrise: Apollo 8's Surprise Gift

[alans1100]

Fifty-years ago, NASA launched Apollo 8 moonward with an official mission: photographing the moon’s surface.

https://insights.globalspec.com/article/10813/earthrise-apollo-8-s-surprise-gift?frmtrk=cr4digest&cid=nl&et_rid=419160512&et_mid=83787270

[Biggles]

Iconic.  It's been used thousands of times to help give us perspective.
Good find.

[StinkyPete]

It's a wondervul and evocative image, and it's good to see the video on the link with the story behind such a famous photo.

[alans1100]

I vaguely remember showing some of this Apollo mission film in 1969 (aged either 13 or 14 at the time) as sometimes I used to operate the school's 8mm film projector.

[Biggles]

I vaguely remember showing some of this Apollo mission film in 1969 (aged either 13 or 14 at the time) as sometimes I used to operate the school's 8mm film projector.

Are you sure it was 8mm.  Ours were all 16mm.
And you were a geek back then too!?     

[alans1100]

I vaguely remember showing some of this Apollo mission film in 1969 (aged either 13 or 14 at the time) as sometimes I used to operate the school's 8mm film projector.

Are you sure it was 8mm.  Ours were all 16mm.
And you were a geek back then too!?     

Could have been 16mm though not something I took a lot of notice of; all I know is that it was smaller than 35mm.

[Biggles]

8mm is really tiny, and was only for home movie cameras.  16mm used to come on spools about 30 cm in diameter (or 12 inches, as we had in those days).
Obviously the standard was set my Japan back then, because we would have called it 5/16".  Like we used to call the minimum tape speed 7/8 ips.