Earthrise
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Earthrise
Just recently the world was saddened to hear that former astronaut Frank Borman had passed away. Borman, along with Jim Lovell and Bill Anders traveled to the Moon and back in December 1968. Everyone remembers Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon. Apollo 11 was actually NASA’s third manned trip to the…
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November 2018 FAS Meeting
Wednesday November 14th, 7:30 pm at Kaleideum North the Forsyth Astronomical Society will have its regularly scheduled monthly meeting. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission, the program for the FAS November meeting is a documentary video entitled Earthrise, by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee. This film combines archival footage and current-day interviews with the Apollo…