On the way home from the Moon in August 1971, Apollo 15 Astronaut Jim Irwin picked up a Hasselblad camera and captured [this astonishing prospect](https://tothemoon.im-ldi.com/gallery/apollo/15/6#AS15-96-13104) of a crescent Earth gleaming in a ray of sunlight.
Speedy-Boii on
Incredible ! I can’t even begin to imagine what it feels like seeing your home planet as just a bright crescent in the absolute dark void of space
ReturnOfDaSnack420 on
This photo fills me with a sense of dread, that is a quite a shot of the infinite black void
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On the way home from the Moon in August 1971, Apollo 15 Astronaut Jim Irwin picked up a Hasselblad camera and captured [this astonishing prospect](https://tothemoon.im-ldi.com/gallery/apollo/15/6#AS15-96-13104) of a crescent Earth gleaming in a ray of sunlight.
Incredible ! I can’t even begin to imagine what it feels like seeing your home planet as just a bright crescent in the absolute dark void of space
This photo fills me with a sense of dread, that is a quite a shot of the infinite black void