Launch | Earthrise by Leonard S. Marcus

Join us for this stellar book launch! From renowned researcher and children’s lit scholar LEONARD S. MARCUS comes , a middle-grade nonfiction book about the astonishing photograph taken during the Apollo 8 mission that forever shifted the way we view our planet! LEONARD S. MARCUS will be in conversation with BRIAN FLOCA, author of .

In , we begin by gazing out the window of the Apollo 8 spacecraft on Christmas Eve, 1968, when NASA astronaut Bill Anders grabbed his camera and snapped the iconic color photo of our planet rising over the lunar horizon. Not long after the crew's safe return, NASA developed Anders’s film and released “Earthrise” to the world. For the millions of viewers who first saw the photo, it was a revelation: a dramatic reminder that our home planet is a small but beautiful “blue marble” hurtling through the universe, fragile yet resilient, familiar yet strange, a sort of spacecraft in its own right for all humanity, without fixed national borders or much room for strife.

Thursday, February 27th at 6PM ET at Our 17th St Store!

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