Inverting Vision

Author’s note: this article was originally published in The Space Review.

On August 23, 1966, the team behind NASA’s Lunar Orbiter I captured the first image of Earth as seen from the Moon.

Left: The Lunar Orbiter camera system sitting in the bottom half of the pressurized shell.

Last week, people flew around the Moon.

Lunar exploration has always held a strange position in the history of exploration.

This morning, as I sipped my coffee, I took in the view of a crescent Earth from the perspective of astronauts heading toward the Moon.

In Highlights, I share a collection of interesting history things I’ve come across recently.

In Exploration Review, I collect news from the last couple weeks about the exploration of remote places.

The first spacecraft from Earth to touch another world carried no people, but it did carry a unique sort of flag.

It’s been a while since my last post, so I wanted to get back to the blog with an update on what I’ve been working on, and what’s next in 2025.

The Odysseus lunar lander built by Intuitive Machines (IM) recently became the first U.S. robot on the Moon’s surface since the Surveyor landers in the 1960s.