Lunar orbit
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In astronomy and spaceflight, a lunar orbit is an orbit by an object around Earth's Moon. In general these orbits are not circular. When farthest from the Moon a spacecraft is said to be at apolune, a
Orion capsule of Artemis 1 above the Moon in December 2022.
Lunar Module Eagle in lunar orbit during Apollo 11, July 1969
First image of Earth from around another astronomical object (the Moon), and first picture of both Earth and the Moon from space, by Lunar Orbiter 1 (not to be confused with the later Earthrise image).
Earthrise
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Earthrise is a photograph of Earth taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. Nature photographer Galen Rowell described it as "the most infl
Lunar orbit
…another astronomical object (the Moon), and first picture of both Earth and the Moon from space, by Lunar Orbiter 1 (not to be confused with the later Earthrise image). The Soviet Union sent the first spacecraft to the vicinity of the Moon (or any extraterrestrial object), the robotic vehicle Luna 1, on January…
Earthrise, taken on December 24, 1968, by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders
Color-calibrated version
The first photograph of Earth from the Moon by a person, also by Anders, taken shortly before Earthrise (for a colorized version see this image)
A copy of the modified Hasselblad 500 EL camera used