Description: The world's first view of Earth taken by a spacecraft from the vicinity of the Moon. The photo was transmitted to Earth by the United States Lunar Orbiter I and received at the NASA tracking station at Robledo De Chavela near Madrid, Spain. This crescent of the Earth was photographed August 23, 1966 at 16:35 GMT when the spacecraft was on its 16th orbit and just about to pass behind the Moon.
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Image Number: SPD-SLRSY-1757
Date: August 23, 1966
Tags: Lunar Orbiter Earth Moon 1966 Earthrise
Description: MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft took the iconic photograph of Earth rising above the lunar surface on August 23, 1966. Using refurbished machinery and modern digital technology, Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project produced the image at a much higher resolution than was possible when it was originally taken.
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Image Number: 290385main_smallversion_full
Date: August 23, 1966
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Description: View of the earth that was transmitted back from space during the live television transmission from the Apollo 8 spacecraft on the third day of its journey toward the moon. This view is looking through a spacecraft window. At the time of this TV transmission, Apollo 8 was traveling on its translunar course at about 3,254 ft per second, and was some 176,533 miles from earth.
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Image Number:SPD-JSC-S68-55809
Date: December 23, 1968
Description: Both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are visible in this view from the Apollo 8 spacecraft. The large, most prominent, land mass is the bulge of west Africa. The portion of Africa near the equator is dark and cloudy, but the more northerly portions are clear, showing the prominent cape at Dakar and the Senegal River in Senegal; Cap Blanc; the Adrar Plateau in Mauritania; the wide expanse of desert in Algeria and Spanish Sahara; and at the far edge, the Atlas and Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco. Clouds cover the eastern coast of South America, southward from Surinam and Guyana to near the City of Salvador, Brazil. This view was taken after tranlunar insertion.
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Image Number: AS08-16-2588
Date: December 22, 1968
Tags: Earth space Apollo 8
Description: An Apollo 10 view of Earth photographed from the spacecraft shortly after translunar insertion. The counter-clockwise arrangement of the cloud formations indicates a northern hemisphere view, although insufficient amounts of land are visible for exact location.
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Image Number: AS10-34-5010
Date: May 18, 1969
Tags: Apollo 10 Earth NASA Space