When the world saw how earth looked from the vicinity of moon - Hindustan Times

It was taken by the spacecraft that was part of the Lunar Orbiter program to photograph the potential landing sites for the then upcoming Surveyor and Apollo missions.

On this day, back in 1966 the world got to see the first view of Earth from the side of the Moon. The black & white hazy picture transmitted to Earth by Lunar Orbiter I became a reminder of how f… [+1563 chars]

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