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During the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, Buzz Aldrin became the first person to take a selfie in space.
"When the Earth completed eclipsing the sun, you could see a big white light right in the middle of the Earth moving across the ocean," said Alan Bean of Apollo 12's journey home in 1969.
"I captured the Earth, the moon, the man, and the country [the United States] all in one," said Eugene Cernan of this photo, taken in 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission.
Astronaut Eugene Cernan tests the lunar rover on the moon. His Apollo 17 partner Harrison Schmitt took this photo in 1972.
Astronaut Alan Bean holds a container of lunar soil in this 1969 photo from the Apollo 12 mission.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong took this photo of Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission. It is the first photograph of a man standing on another world.
Life magazine photographer Ralph Morse mounted a camera on the launch platform to capture this image of the lift-off of the rocket carrying Apollo 11 on its historic mission to the moon in 1969.
These photos of the moon, stitched together into a panorama, were taken on the Apollo 10 mission in 1969.
Astronaut Rusty Schweickart took this photo of fellow astronaut David Scott on an Apollo 9 space walk in 1969.
This photo, taken by a camera mounted on an Air Force jet, shows the Apollo 8 team's 1968 reentry into Earth.