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  Jan 13 2006, 09:41 PM
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Just curious to know which spacecraft took the very first full Earth globe view ?
Maybe one of the ATS satellites ? ( Application Technology Satellite ) 
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Jun 7 2006, 04:30 PM
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In this online NASA book:
Dreams, Hopes, and Realities: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the First Forty Years (NASA SP-4312, 1999) by Lane E. Wallace. In Chapter 5, they have a *color* image of this photo of Earth taken by an Aerobee sounding rocket in 1954: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4312/p132.jpg A black and white version of it is shown in the famous 1968 NASA book Exploring Space with a Camera here: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-168/p5.htm -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jun 8 2006, 04:37 PM
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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jun 7 2006, 05:30 PM)  In this online NASA book: Dreams, Hopes, and Realities: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the First Forty Years (NASA SP-4312, 1999) by Lane E. Wallace. In Chapter 5, they have a *color* image of this photo of Earth taken by an Aerobee sounding rocket in 1954: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4312/p132.jpg A black and white version of it is shown in the famous 1968 NASA book Exploring Space with a Camera here: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-168/p5.htm Interesting - that image was stitched together by hand from 16mm movie frames, IIRC. I was unaware that it was colour film which was used - it's the B&W version which has made it into the history books (I suppose colour press reproduction just wasn't especially economic 50 years ago). AutoStitch would just eat that sequence of images up - if anyone could find the original film... Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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PhilCo126 First Full Earth Globe Photograph ? Jan 13 2006, 09:41 PM
Bob Shaw QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Jan 13 2006, 10:41 PM)Just... Jan 13 2006, 10:25 PM PhilCo126 Bob,
I can't see the topic with that number ..... Jan 14 2006, 01:44 PM
DDAVIS Here are some early 'landmark' Earth photo... Jan 15 2006, 01:23 AM David QUOTE (DDAVIS @ Jan 15 2006, 01:23 AM)Here ar... Jan 15 2006, 04:26 AM Bob Shaw Some details of DODGE (launched 1 July 1967):
htt... Jan 15 2006, 10:04 PM Bob Shaw Boeing has some interesting tidbits, too:
http://... Jan 15 2006, 10:10 PM hendric QUOTE (David @ Jan 14 2006, 10:26 PM)Note the... Jan 16 2006, 06:04 AM ljk4-1 Good ol' Exploring Space with a Camera has a w... Jan 16 2006, 03:40 PM Toma B QUOTE (David @ Jan 15 2006, 07:26 AM)Note the... Jan 16 2006, 05:21 PM BruceMoomaw One of the 1966 issues of National Geographic had ... Jan 21 2006, 11:31 PM PhilCo126 May 30, 1966 by a Soviet Weather satellite ?
Which... Jan 22 2006, 08:44 AM Bob Shaw QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Jan 22 2006, 09:44 AM)May ... Jan 22 2006, 02:14 PM ljk4-1 AES ''MOLNIYA-1'' TRANSMITS THE EA... Jan 23 2006, 04:01 PM Bob Shaw Here are the National Geographic images:
Bob Shaw Jan 23 2006, 10:33 PM Bob Shaw And as Larry posted:
Bob Shaw Jan 23 2006, 10:38 PM BruceMoomaw You know, that DODGE photo is a bit better than I ... Jan 24 2006, 09:29 AM edstrick My somewhat vague understanding is that the ATS 3 ... Jan 24 2006, 10:26 AM DonPMitchell QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jun 7 2006, 09:30 AM... Jun 8 2006, 09:27 AM |
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