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    Amazing Beautiful Historic Apollo Launch Photos From the Earth to the Moon and back again
    Amazing Beautiful Historic Apollo Launch Photos From the Earth to the Moon and back again
    Amazing Beautiful Historic Apollo Launch Photos From the Earth to the Moon and back again
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    Amazing Beautiful Historic Apollo Launch Photos From the Earth to the Moon and back again

    By Ed Bernd Jr.

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    One of a kind photos, first time published.
    They said it was impossible, you couldn't make a 60 second time-exposure photograph of a Saturn 5 rocket launch... in the daytime... in color... shooting directly into a Florida sunrise.
    But a young photographer went ahead on his own and did it anyway.
    Read the stories behind these amazing photos, the challenges they posed, and the coincidences that made them possible:
    •Apollo 4 lifting off into a blazing Cocoa Beach, Florida, sunrise
    •Apollo 8's first flight heading for the moon with men aboard
    •Apollo 11's journey to a thrilling landing and Neil Armstrong's historic first step onto the moon
    •Apollo 17's late-night liftoff on the final mission of the Apollo program
    There is also a website where you can download all of the pictures for free at 1024 x 768 pixels suitable for your computer or a digital photo frame.
    If you wish you can order photographic quality prints with an option for custom framing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEd Bernd Jr.
    Release dateFeb 4, 2019
    ISBN9781370251582
    Amazing Beautiful Historic Apollo Launch Photos From the Earth to the Moon and back again
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    Ed Bernd Jr.

    Ed Bernd Jr. grew up in the newspaper business and said he was way beyond skeptical about ESP - he was certain that it didn't exist. Ed says that he has used his ESP virtually every day since he attended that first Silva program back in 1975. He became a Silva instructor in 1977, and was invited to join the Silva world headquarters staff in 1981 as an instructor and editor of the company newsletter. He quickly began putting his communications skills to work to let people know about the benefits of the program and worked with Jose Silva as editor or coauthor of more than a dozen books.

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      Amazing Beautiful Historic Apollo Launch Photos From the Earth to the Moon and back again - Ed Bernd Jr.

      Amazing Beautiful Historic

      1Apollo Launch Photos

      From the Earth

      to the Moon

      and back again

      by Ed Bernd Jr.

      © Copyright 2019 by Ed Bernd Jr. and Avlis Productions Inc.

      ISBN: 9781370251582

      More titles by this author at www.Smashwords.com

      For more information and free pictures to download, and if you’d like to buy photographic-quality prints with an option for custom framing, please visit www.ApolloLaunchPhotos.com

      Acknowledgements:

      Special thanks to Jeanetta Wright, Wes Moore, Jose Escalera, and Katherine Sandusky for their encouragement to tell the story, and for their help in preparing the manuscript

      Thanks for the use of clip art from the outstanding artists

      at Pixabay.com and openclipart.org

      Thank you to all my teachers and guides who taught and encouraged me. I’m sure I appreciate your guidance and support more now than I did at the time.

      I also appreciate those of you who motivated me by telling me that something couldn’t be done, and especially those who doubted me and made it personal by telling me I wouldn’t succeed. I love to prove people wrong

      Contents

      The Impossible Pictures

      Challenges

      From Gemini to Apollo

      Begging for a Half Hour Off

      Improvising

      Pushing the Limits

      A Nice Day for a Launch

      Mixed Results

      A Friend to the Rescue

      My Next Project

      Apollo 11

      Would We Miss the Moment?

      After the Moon Launch Then What?

      Not Newsworthy Anymore

      From Dawn to Dusk of the Apollo Program

      A Night of Indecision

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      1The Impossible Pictures

      They said it couldn’t be done, that I was wasting my time, that it was impossible to take a time exposure photo of a daytime missile launch... in color... directly into a Florida sunrise... from ten miles away.

      If anybody would know, Arch Smith would.

      1Arch had first conceived the idea of making a time exposure of a daytime missile launch during the Gemini program. He ran the photo department at Martin Marietta’s Canaveral Division, and he happened to have an opening for a darkroom technician at the same time I found myself between newspaper jobs.

      The Gemini rocket used liquid fuel and didn’t produce a bright enough exhaust, so Arch photographed the launch of an Atlas Agena rocket that the Gemini crew was going to rendezvous with in orbit.

      It would be necessary for Apollo astronauts to rendezvous and dock with the Lunar Lander when they flew to the moon, so Gemini astronauts were proving that it could be done.

      Taking a black and white picture of a Saturn 5 launch was easy enough. Even Arch thought I might be able to pull that off despite the fact that the Saturn 5 also used liquid fuel. The Saturn 5 fuel might not have been as bright as the Atlas fuel, but there was going to be a lot more of it.

      And I did.

      I only had one tripod so I did it with the big Crown Graphic press camera sitting on the hood (or bonnet as they call it in England) of my MGA automobile. You can see the bonnet in the bottom right corner of the photo.

      1Here is a reenactment of that morning. My cab driver shot this picture of me in February of 2019, here in South Texas. I may be a few decades older, living couple of thousand miles from Florida, and my sports car days might be many miles

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