First View of Earth from Moon Date: 08.23.1966 The world's first view of Earth taken by a spacecraft from the vicinity of the Moon.
The photo was transmitted to Earth by the United States Lunar Orbiter I and received at the NASA tracking station at Robledo De Chavela near Madrid, Spain. This crescent of the Earth was photographed August 23, 1966 at 16:35 GMT when the spacecraft was on its 16th orbit and just about to pass behind the Moon.
