50 years ago, astronauts orbited the moon for the first time
Excerpt from the December 21, 1968 issue of Science News
EARTHRISE Fifty years ago, the first astronauts to orbit the moon snapped this iconic photo of Earth peaking out from beyond the moon’s horizon.
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