> Even mercifully assuming they mean "photograph of the entire Earth", this is clearly nonsense. The Apollo 8 crew got excellent shots of our planet long before they entered lunar orbit.

Colour pictures from space (at least on the US side) go back as far as Alan Shepard who took this [0] image from Freedom 7 in 1961.

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/milestones/earthinspace....