🌍 This is a real photograph of Earth taken during the Gemini missions in the 1960s. At this time humans had only recently learned how to reach space and stay in orbit. For the astronauts on board this view was something no one in history had ever seen with their own eyes. The spacecraft was orbiting a few hundred kilometers above Earth. From that height the atmosphere becomes a thin glowing layer and the planet looks soft and curved against the black of space. Images like this helped scientists

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