The First Photograph of a Human in Space (1961)
This historic photograph captures the first human in space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, as he orbits the Earth in his Vostok 1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961. Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space, and his mission marked a major milestone in
Hello, World is a photograph of Earth taken by NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman aboard the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission, published on April 3, 2026. The photo shows Earth as a disk, but not a complete hemisphere. It was captured during the first leg of the spacecraft's outbound journey toward the Moon. It and a preceding lower-exposure snapshot by Wiseman are the first photographs of a full Earth disk taken by a human since 1972, when The Blue Marble was taken by the Apollo 17 crew.