Washington, December 25, 2015, 07:44 – REGNUM Photo Earth taken from the moon on Christmas Eve in 1968, published NASA. The picture shows a half of the Earth on a background of black lunar sky.
Photo of the planet made by the crew of the US space mission “Apollo 8″ on the eve of the Catholic Christmas – December 24, 1968. The mission of “Apollo-8″ for the first time carried out a flight of earthlings on another celestial body – on the satellite. Earthlings have seen our planet from outer space as a whole, as a celestial body.
Start “Apollo 8″ with astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders on board took place December 21, 1968. It was the first manned launch three-stage rocket “Saturn 5″. Flight to the Moon lasted less than three days, 66 hours, 16 minutes and 21.79 seconds.
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