Title:

First view of Earth taken from the Moon

Creator:

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Date:

23 August 1966

Description:

CAPTION: The world's first view of the Earth taken by a spacecraft from the vincinity of the Moon. The photo was transmitted to Earth by the United States Lunar Orbiter 1 and received at the NASA tracking station at Robledo de Chavela near Madrid, Sparin. This crescent of the Earth was on its 16th orbit and just about to pass behind the Moon. The Earth is shown on the left of the photo with the U. S. east coast in the upper left, southern Europe toward the dark or night side of Earth, and Antarctica at the bottom of Earth crescent. The surface of the Moon is shown on the right side of the photograph.

Location:

Box: 68. Folder: 45

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Photographic prints

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Homer E. Newell, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Joshua Lederberg, 1967
Floor of Copernicus crater, 1966

Legacy ID:

BBGDAH

NLM ID:

101584906X15657

Profiles Collection:

The Joshua Lederberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584906X15657

Lederberg Grouping:

NONE. No Epoch.