The celebrated first photograph of the Planet Earth taken by the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon, Lunar Orbiter 1, 23 August 1966 Vintage gelatin silver print on resin-coated paper with no watermark on verso, 25.5 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in) annotations in black tip pen "This was the first photo ever returned of the Earth from deep space from the vicinity of the moon. Taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 August 23, 1966" and JPL ID number 66-6399 written" in red on verso, (printed mid 1970's) (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Footnotes: A nice glossy print of this important image of the story of space exploration. Lunar Orbiter 1 was the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the Moon. Its mission was to obtain photographs of the Moon's surface but the spacecraft also captured this fantastic image of the Earth from the vantage point of another world. The 200 photos sent by each of the five Lunar Orbiters helped NASA select safe landing sites for the Apollo missions. Other objectives of the program were to collect data on the Moon's gravitational field, and study radiation and micrometeoroid flux in the vicinity of the Moon Illustrated: Chaikin, Space, pp. 73-74. Condition Report: Mint Condition Report Disclaimer
The celebrated first photograph of the Planet Earth taken by the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon, Lunar Orbiter 1, 23 August 1966 Vintage gelatin silver print on resin-coated paper with no watermark on verso, 25.5 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in) annotations in black tip pen "This was the first photo ever returned of the Earth from deep space from the vicinity of the moon. Taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 August 23, 1966" and JPL ID number 66-6399 written" in red on verso, (printed mid 1970's) (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Footnotes: A nice glossy print of this important image of the story of space exploration. Lunar Orbiter 1 was the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the Moon. Its mission was to obtain photographs of the Moon's surface but the spacecraft also captured this fantastic image of the Earth from the vantage point of another world. The 200 photos sent by each of the five Lunar Orbiters helped NASA select safe landing sites for the Apollo missions. Other objectives of the program were to collect data on the Moon's gravitational field, and study radiation and micrometeoroid flux in the vicinity of the Moon Illustrated: Chaikin, Space, pp. 73-74. Condition Report: Mint Condition Report Disclaimer
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