For decades, scientists have dreamed of capturing the Moon in a photograph, often turning their telescopes to the sky with curiosity and wonder. That dream finally came true on August 23, 1966, when ...
On 23 August 1966, NASA captured the first photograph of the Earth as seen from a lunar orbit by its unmanned Lunar Orbiter 1 probe. This spacecraft had been launched on 10 August 1966 with a very ...