Bend / Central Oregon News, Sports, Business, Weather, Entertainment, Classifieds and Local & State Headlines | The Bulletin

Use Advanced Search to filter by date and category. *keyword is required in search field.
start date (MM-DD-YYYY):
 -  - 
end date (MM-DD-YYYY):
 -  - 
category:
Archive Home > 2009 > March > 22 > A giant leap to the past: Saving the first photos from the moon

A giant leap to the past: Saving the first photos from the moon

By John Johnson Jr. / The Bulletin
March 22, 2009

LOS ANGELES — Rising over the battered surface of the moon, Earth loomed in a shimmering arc covered in a swirling skin of clouds. The image, taken in 1966 by NASA’s robotic probe Lunar Orbiter 1, presented a stunning juxtaposition of planet and moon that no earthling had....

Read complete article

Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.