Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[Tycho]

Christmas Eve, 1968: Apollo 8 is in orbit around the Moon with astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders aboard. At about 75 hours into the mission, something amazing happened: Earthrise

The following is a transcript from the Apollo Flight Journal:

075:47:30 Borman or Anders (onboard): Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!

075:47:37 Anders or Borman (onboard): Hey, don't take that, it's not scheduled. (Chuckle.)

075:47:39 Borman (onboard): [Laughter] You got a color film, Jim?

075:47:46 Anders (onboard): Hand me that roll of color quick, will you...

075:47:48 Lovell (onboard): Oh man, that's great!​

Unknowingly, the surprised and ecstatic astronauts snapped what is now one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. I thought I'd just post this little tidbit of info and the screenshot here to show what's on my mind every year when Christmas Eve rolls around. Happy Holidays everyone! :thumbup:

 

[GoForPDI]

Very, very nice!

 

[HAL9001]

:camera:

and Merry Christmas

 

[Stevodoran]

Nuke explodes on earth

 

[HAL9001]

after a short (and hard) fly through the Atmosphere I flew back into spae

I had to try that twice...

starting the voyage to Mars

reached Mars-orbit

 

[Fabri91]

Good pictures!
What addons have you used in the stack of the last two pictures?

 

[Wonderer]

Good pictures!
What addons have you used in the stack of the last two pictures?

[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3393"]Baxter's Voyage beta[/ame]

 

[HAL9001]

Baxter's Voyage beta

Yes that's right.

 

[DanM]

@HAL9001, Did you read the book? I personally really enjoyed it.

 

[HAL9001]

@HAL9001, Did you read the book? I personally really enjoyed it.

sorry, but I didn't know that there's a book about that. I'll look, if I can find it in the labrary.
:lol:

 

[Stevodoran]

Heat picture

 

[Fabri91]

Thank you very much, I'll see if I can find the book!

 

[HAL9001]

 

[Tex]

November 2016
Approaching Brighton Beach

Repairs to the Arrow complete after returning from an extended Mars re-supply mission. Reloading cargo for Saturn and moons exploration via Jupiter sling window in Dec 2016.


December 2016
Docking over Brighton Beach

Time to depart for Jupiter!

 

[Tex]

Exploring Enceladus

 

[HAL9001]

four fictional ships

Something fictional:

the Flamberge

the Pelican-Halo

the Explorer

the USRS Hawk

 

[fireballs619]

Earth, as viewed while in route to the moon. I feel like virtual cockpits are hugely underused. Then again, not many are functional :tiphat:.

 

[HAL9001]

 

[Solar424]

What kind of ship is that!

 

[Aeadar]

Since I'm into B&W right now and I saw a B&W photo on Google Earth of Wideawake taken during the Falklands War back in '82, I thought I'd try some B&W.

This is an ESA XR5 returning to Wideawake after 7 days docked to Longshot in a 10000km orbit.