This picture was taken on Christmas eve 1968 from the window of Apollo 8 as it came around the moon for the very first time.




...and this was taken on the very last Apollo mission in December 1972. You may have seen it before... Apollo 17 had the sun directly behind it as the camera clicked. Every other photo of the earth from space has some part of the surface in shadow but this shot is the ONLY picture ever taken of the earth in full sunlight.