The photo that captured the First View of Earth from the Moon, 1966

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For thousands of years, humans could only speculate what the Earth looked like. This changed on August 23, 1966, when the world received its first view of Earth taken by a spacecraft from the vicinity of the Moon. The photo was shot from a distance of about 236,000 miles (380,000 km) and shows half of […]