one that would show not only Apollo 8’s flight path but also which of the craft’s five windows was turned toward the rising Earth, and as a consequence, who took the pictures. Even before I ...

The Apollo IX mission test-flew the command module and lunar module together in Earth orbit. Dave Scott’s spacewalk was one of the most-photographed parts of the mission and one of the images ...

Apollo astronaut Bill Anders, who captured one of the most famous images ever recorded in space ... the first time humans ever left low Earth orbit. The quarter-million mile flight reached ...

Widely acknowledged as one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence, the "Blue Marble" was ...

This is a rare image of Earth taken by the Apollo 11 crew during the Apollo 11 trans-lunar coast. Images like the present lot ...

In a fascinating intersection of space exploration and Earth science, NASA’s Apollo astronauts once trained on the alien-like ...

The story of William Anders' iconic Earthrise image, which helped to spur Earth Day and the environmental movement ...

The first image of planet Earth was taken by astronaut Bill Anders aboard Apollo 8 as it made its way to the moon on December 24, 1968. Anders was joined by Jim Lovell and Frank Borman, the first ...

The 1972 Blue Marble image, taken by astronauts in the Apollo 17 spacecraft ... At their core, satellite images continue to inspire and move us. On Earth Day this year, we present ten satellite ...

Fifty years on, new images of the planet reveal visible changes to the Earth's surface. "I'll tell you," said astronaut Harrison Schmitt as the Apollo 17 hurtled towards the Moon, "if there ever ...

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...