The 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic spacecraft mission, part of NASA’s Lunar Orbiter program was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon.
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It was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions.
A total of 42 high-resolution and 187 medium-resolution frames were taken and transmitted to Earth covering more than 5 million sq kms of the Moon’s surface.
The first image of Earth from the distance of the Moon, August 23,
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And weeks before England won the World Cup.Such exciting times !
And they’ll probably never win it again until we are playing it on the moon.
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According to the news they are in with a chance as we speak but they have to beat Australia on Wednesday first.
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That is not going to happen 
At least one wishes that is not going to happen.
In 1966, who took the photo of Orbiter orbiting the Moon, did it have a long “selfie Stick” 
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Me thinks someone on Earth espied a moving object and decided it would make for an interesting photograph. 
There was a lot of interstellar poetic license back in the 60s 
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