This is the first image ever taken of the Earth from the Moon. The image was taken in 1966 by Lunar Orbited 1 and heralded by then-journalists as the Image of the Century. It was taken about two years before the Apollo 8 crew snapped its more famous colour cousin. Recently, modern technology has allowed the recovery of higher resolution images from old data sources such as Lunar Orbited tapes than ever before. Specifically, recovery of the above image was initiated 20 years ago by Nancy Evans, and completed recently by Dennis Wingo and Keith Cowing who lead the Lunar Orbited Image Recovery Project. Lunar Orbited Image Recovery Project. Credit: NASA/LOIRP. Buy this as a superb wall poster, a canvas print or a framed print.