Taken by an automatic Maurer 70mm camera aboard the unmanned Apollo 4 spacecraft

Full crescent Earth from high apogee

Apollo 4, November 9, 1967, 005:45:01 GET

Vintage photograph.
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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This photograph was made when the Apollo 4 spacecraft, still attached to the S-IVB (third) stage, was orbiting over the Earth a few seconds from apogee at an altitude of 9,765 nautical miles. It was taken by an automatic Maurer 70mm camera aboard the unmanned Apollo 4 spacecraft 005:45:01 GET.

This is an actual view of the Earth, as the human eye would have seen it, taken November 9, 1967 through the Command Pilot’s window of the Apollo 4 spacecraft a few seconds from apogee. View is looking west southwest over the Atlantic Ocean. Large low pressure area is in the south Atlantic between Africa and South America. The Antarctic Continent is under heavy cloud cover. Sun glint on the ocean can be seen clearly. In the extreme lower left is the Antarctic ice cap.