Apollo 8's "Earthrise" Photo Just Became A LEGO Ideas Set, Nearly 60 Years Later - Yanko Design

"It's nearly 60 years since we first got to actually see our blue marble from afar. Not in some geography book as a painting, not in the form of a VFX shot in a Hollywood movie. But as an actual color photo clicked by an astronaut from space. Taken by William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, this iconic photo set the earth against its nearest neighbor, the moon."

"It's a perspective mankind had never seen before, a photo that looked at the earth from the moon rather than the other way around. It's a perspective that's still etched into a lot of memories... and now this LEGO set turns it into a brilliant visual cast in plastic bricks. Built by LEGO creator BuildingDreams, this rendition was designed to be hung on your wall as you admire its sheer beauty."

"The Apollo 8's mission was to do a mere lunar orbit without a touchdown, and William Anders, a scientific crew member and photo enthusiast, took this photo on his Hasselblad 500 EL - the first ever color photo taken of the earth from space. The name Earthrise came from the fact that it looked like the Earth was rising from the surface of the moon, quite like the sun rises in Earth's sky."

William Anders captured the first color photograph of Earth from lunar orbit during the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, producing the iconic Earthrise image that framed Earth against the Moon. The Apollo 8 mission completed lunar orbit without landing and supplied imagery that aided subsequent moon-landing research. A LEGO creator named BuildingDreams designed a wall-mounted brick rendition of the Earthrise photo. The model measures 48 cm tall by 32 cm wide and uses 859 pieces to portray the black void of space, the cloud-filled blue Earth, and the cratered lunar surface. The build emphasizes visual fidelity and celebrates a major milestone in human spaceflight.

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