Space Rocket History #217 – Apollo 11 – Cislunar
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What do we call this strange region between earth and moon? Cislunar space is the most common term, Is it day or night?  Humans generally define night as that time when our planet is between our eyes and the sun, so this must be considered constant daytime, But it looks like night out of Command Module’s windows. Homepage with pictures.
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