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NASA Image eXchange Collection
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NASA Image eXchange Collection
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Apollo Project
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Apollo Project
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Langley Center Director Floyd Thompson shows Ann Kilgore the "picture of the century." This was the first picture of the earth taken from space. From Spaceflight Revolution: "On 23 August 1966 just as Lunar Orbiter I was about to pass behind the moon, mission controllers executed the necessary maneuvers to point the camera away from the lunar surface and toward the earth. The result was the world's first view of the earth from space. It was called "the picture of the century' and "the greatest shot taken since the invention of photography." Not even the color photos of the earth taken during the Apollo missions superseded the impact of this first image of our planet as a little island of life floating in the black and infinite sea of space." Published in James R. Hansen, Spaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley Research Center From Sputnik to Apollo, (Washington: NASA, 1995), pp. 345-346.
Description
Langley Center Director Floyd Thompson shows Ann Kilgore the "picture of the century." This was the first picture of the earth taken from space. From Spaceflight Revolution: "On 23 August 1966 just as Lunar Orbiter I was about to pass behind the moon, mission controllers executed the necessary maneuvers to point the camera away from the lunar surface and toward the earth. The result was the world's first view of the earth from space. It was called "the picture of the century' and "the greatest shot taken since the invention of photography." Not even the color photos of the earth taken during the Apollo missions superseded the impact of this first image of our planet as a little island of life floating in the black and infinite sea of space." Published in James R. Hansen, Spaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley Research Center From Sputnik to Apollo, (Washington: NASA, 1995), pp. 345-346.
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12.14.1966
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Earth
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Earth
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Moon
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Moon
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Lunar Orbiter
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Lunar Orbiter
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Washington
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Washington
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Langley Research Center (LaRC)
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Langley Research Center (LaRC)
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23 August 1966
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23 August 1966
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12-14-1966
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12-14-1966
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1966
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1966
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IMAGE
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EL-2002-00508
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L66-10055
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L66-10055
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SPD-NIX-EL-2002-0050 8
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SPD-NIX-EL-2002-0050 8
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