Space Print from NASA: 1st Picture of Earth Moon. This picture of the Earth and Moon in a single frame, the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft, was recorded Sept 18, 1977, by NASA's Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles from Earth and directly above Mt. Everest (on the night side of the planet at 25 degrees north latitude). In the picture are eastern Asia, the western Pacific Ocean and part of the Arctic (NASA Media Archives). Buy this picture as an unframed print or poster, a framed print or a mounted box canvas print.