SPACE FIRST: Live Color TV

SPACE FIRST: Apollo 10 broadcast the first live color TV from space.

(Above Photo) Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 10 lunar module pilot, is seen in this color reproduction taken from the third television transmission made by the color television camera aboard the Apollo 10 spacecraft.

When this picture was taken, the Apollo 10 spacecraft was on a translunar course, and was already about 36,000 nautical miles from earth.