This 1946 image of Earth was the first photograph taken in space.
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Astronaut Ed White poses for the first in-flight portrait, taken by astronaut James McDivitt in 1965 on Gemini 4.
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Ed White takes the first space walk made by an American, on the Gemini 4 mission.
Photograph by James McDivitt, Courtesy Bloomsbury Auctions
American astronaut Buzz Aldrin in 1966 on the Gemini 12 mission takes the first selfie in space.
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Ed White floats outside the Gemini 4 in a 1965 photo taken by fellow astronaut James McDivitt.
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The 1967 image was the first colour photo taken of Earth from space.
Photograph by Dodge Satellite, U.S. Air Force, Johns Hopkins University, Courtesy Bloomsbury Auctions
A 70mm Hasselblad camera floats over astronaut Walter Cunningham's right hand on Apollo 7. This photo was taken by his colleague Wally Schirra in 1968.
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"Grabbing the Hasselblad camera, I perpetrated a photographic no-no: taking this picture looking into the sun," recalled astronaut Walter Cunningham. He took this photo of the Florida Peninsula aboard Apollo 7 in 1968.
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Apollo 8 lifts off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, in 1968. It was the first manned mission to the moon.
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"The colour of the moon looks like a very whitish gray, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints on it," said astronaut William Anders. He took this photo aboard Apollo 8.
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William Anders took this photo of his first earthrise on Apollo 8.
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This photo, taken by a camera mounted on an Air Force jet, shows the Apollo 8 team's 1968 reentry into Earth.
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Astronaut Rusty Schweickart took this photo of fellow astronaut David Scott on an Apollo 9 space walk in 1969.
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These photos of the moon, stitched together into a panorama, were taken on the Apollo 10 mission in 1969.
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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.
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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.
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Astronaut Alan Bean holds a container of lunar soil in this 1969 photo from the Apollo 12 mission.
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Astronaut Eugene Cernan tests the lunar rover on the moon. His Apollo 17 partner Harrison Schmitt took this photo in 1972.
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"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.
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"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.
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