First photograph of Earth from deep space
Photograph
First photograph of Earth from deep space
August 23, 1966
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 3/8 × 13 1/2 in. (18.8 × 34.3 cm)
Mount: 18 1/16 × 16 in. (45.9 × 40.6 cm)
Matted: 23 5/8 × 19 7/8 × 3/16 in. (60 × 50.5 × 0.5 cm)
Gift of William Vaughn
2000.0636.0001
Inscriptions Printed in black ink on paper adhered to mount verso, TL: GEOMETRICAL PERSPECTIVE OF FIRST EARTH-MOON PHOTO [includes several diagrams and illustrations]
Printed in black ink on paper adhered to mount verso, BR: NASA Release: August 26, 1966 \ Photo No: 66-H-1146 This photograph is released for non-commercial, noncopyrightable \ public information use. Written permission must be received from \ NASA if this photograph is used in advertising, poster, books, \ etc., and layout must be submitted to NASA for approval prior to \ release. \ The world's first view of Earth taken by a space- \ craft 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... [continued]
Printed in black ink on paper adhered to mount verso, BR: NASA Release: August 26, 1966 \ Photo No: 66-H-1146 This photograph is released for non-commercial, noncopyrightable \ public information use. Written permission must be received from \ NASA if this photograph is used in advertising, poster, books, \ etc., and layout must be submitted to NASA for approval prior to \ release. \ The world's first view of Earth taken by a space- \ craft 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... [continued]
