The mystery behind who took the first full-color shot of Earth from Apollo 17

I fully expect to see that someone’s figures it out from micro vibrations, or preferred aperture, when comparing it to clearly credited photos.

I’m amazed what human ingenuity is capable of in situations like this.

Related: when I used to travel with a film camera inevitably I would recall taking a photo someone else took credit for as well. Something about seeing a scene in your mind’s eye, recalling exactly that moment, leads one to believe they pushed the button.

On a related note, a huge amount of photos taken during the Apollo missions are available on Flickr, all the way from Apollo 7 to 17: https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums

Stanley Kubrick

Problems with identifying who took the various Apollo mission photo's seems to be a long running thing:

(Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16067535

Mods, you have overdone the title-rewriting slightly. This was not the first full-color shot of earth, just the first from Apollo 17.