Corey S PowellApr 3, 2024

Only three humans have ever witnessed an eclipse of the Sun by the *Earth*. It happened while the Apollo 12 crew was returning home from the Moon, on November 21, 1969.

Fortunately, the astronauts filmed the moment so you can share in the experience.

https://archive.org/details/Apollo1216mmOnboardFilm [at the 4:50 mark] #space #science #nasa #eclipse

APOLLO 12 16MM ONBOARD FILM : NASA/Johnson Space Center : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Film taken includes a solar eclipse, Charles Conrad and Alan Bean on lunar surface, and scenes of Lunar Module (LM) during lunar orbital rendezvouz and...

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Show threadKermanLine
@coreyspowell I think you’re excluding the dozens of astronauts who’ve seen an Earth eclipse 16x/day while on the ISS, and the billions who see it every day from the ground and call it "nighttime" 😉
Apr 3, 2024 at 4:45amWeb
Show threadCorey S PowellApr 3, 2024

@KermanLine

Yes, and also there's the eclipse of the Sun by my hand that I've done on many a sunny day...