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First direct image of Earth taken by a person from the surface of another astronomical object (from the Moon), (AS11-40-5923). [20] [47] November 24, 1969 Apollo 12: First images (black-and-white and 16mm color film) of a solar eclipse with the Earth, taken by a human, when the Apollo 12 spacecraft aligned its view of the Sun with the Earth ...
Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing.The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) exploded two days into the mission, disabling its electrical and life-support system.
The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, [1] a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.
NASA asked the public to vote on the best images of Earth.
Apollo 13 crew members Jack Swigert, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise pose for a photo. Apollo 13 stands as one of NASA's most monumental and near-fatal space missions decades after the event.
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Chabot Observatory calendar records an application of optical tracking during the final phases of Apollo 13, on April 17, 1970: Rachel, Chabot Observatory's 20-inch refracting telescope, helps bring Apollo 13 and its crew home. One last burn of the lunar lander engines was needed before the crippled spacecraft's re-entry into the Earth's ...
Back on Earth, Mission Control fought to enact an emergency operation to bring the men home. “More than 50 years after the mission, the film put me right back in the captain’s seat,” Apollo ...