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NASA Astronaut's Historic Photos
In 1963, NASA astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. took stunning color photographs of Earth from the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission. His images captured vehicles on dirt roads and provided a unique perspective of our planet.
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NASA astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. took 29 color photographs of the Earth with a 70mm camera as he orbited our planet during the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission in May 1963. Cooper’s view from the window of his Faith 7 spacecraft was spectacular, and he reported that he could see vehicles motoring on dirt
2026-08-20 14:30 UTC