When Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon 55 years ago, he also collected lunar rocks and soil along the way to ...

Several years later, in 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts captured the "Blue Marble" photo—a fully illuminated image of Earth, from the South Pole to all continents. This photo became one of the most ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first ... captured by the crew of Apollo 17 after the second pass over Africa before continuing on to the Moon (Credit: Nasa) Taking photos, says Levasseur, was planned ...

Taking photos ... by itself." The Blue Marble image was captured at around 29,000km (18,000 miles) from Earth, as the Sun lit up the globe from behind the Apollo 17. Almost six hours into ...

Widely acknowledged as one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence, the "Blue Marble" was photographed by Apollo 17's Harrison Schmitt just ... as the astronauts had the Sun ...

NASA’s most iconic space photos that will leave ... NASA The famous "Earthrise" photo was taken during the Apollo 8 mission ... The "Blue Marble" photo, taken during the Apollo 17 mission in ...

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday, June 7, 2024, ...

SEATTLE (AP) — William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from ... born on October 17, 1933, in Hong ...