Fifty years ago today, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. That was some heroic stuff in the early part of a decade that began with so much optimism.
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Fifty years ago today, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.

That was some heroic stuff in the early part of a decade that began with so much optimism.

Source: TIME

This Blue Marble 2012 image of the United States is what NASA is calling the “most amazing, highest resolution image of Earth ever.” It can be downloaded at a resolution as large as 8000x8000 pixels at NASA’s Flickr photostream.
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This Blue Marble 2012 image of the United States is what NASA is calling the “most amazing, highest resolution image of Earth ever.”

It can be downloaded at a resolution as large as 8000x8000 pixels at NASA’s Flickr photostream.

Source: Gizmodo

As its 75th anniversary approaches, LIFE magazine has put together a gallery of its 75 best covers. It appears the editors were to select the “most moving, most striking, most beautiful” among the 2,237 covers that have been published since the magazine’s debut on Nov. 23, 1936. I choose the man-on-moon cover as my favorite among the 75 that were selected. Could only imagine the thrill of having gotten that issue in the mail in 1969. Talk about a magazine that was surely fought over by family members. And not an edition that was soon tossed in anyone’s trash.
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As its 75th anniversary approaches, LIFE magazine has put together a gallery of its 75 best covers.

It appears the editors were to select the “most moving, most striking, most beautiful” among the 2,237 covers that have been published since the magazine’s debut on Nov. 23, 1936.

I choose the man-on-moon cover as my favorite among the 75 that were selected. Could only imagine the thrill of having gotten that issue in the mail in 1969. Talk about a magazine that was surely fought over by family members. And not an edition that was soon tossed in anyone’s trash.