On Christmas Eve, 1968, the NASA crew on Apollo 8 took the Earthrise photograph, the first photo of the earth from the perspective of the moon. It was immediately influential, and the first Earth Day followed soon after, in the spring of 1970.
Please join Bruce Clarke, Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, who will moderate a discussion on the rich cultural impact of the photo on the US space program and the environmental movement.
A display and reception will follow the discussion.
Introductory comments:
* John Haskell, Director of John W. Kluge Center
Panel (in sequence):
* Bruce Clarke
* David McConville, "Philosophy and Worldview"
* Anne Collins Goodyear, "Art and Technology"
* Neil Maher, "Media and Ecology"
* Margaret Weitekamp, "NASA and Astrobiology"
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