The Apollo moon program ... capturing high resolution images of the lunar surface - both of the far side and of potential landing sites on the near side. The 'Earthrise' photograph was not on ...

and how environmental disasters of his day inspired the creation of Earth Day in 1970. On December 7, 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts captured a now-iconic image of Earth, sometimes called the “blue marble ...

The crew of the final Apollo mission — 17 — took what would be the last shot of the whole Earth by humans. And what a shot: The Blue Marble, as the photo has come to be known, was the first ...