Alan Shepard or Edgar Mitchell

Crescent Earth rising over the lunar horizon

Apollo 14, January 31 - February 9, 1971, orbit 14

Vintage photograph with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks and NASA KSC caption with identifying number “AS14-66-9227” on the verso.
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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This superb photograph was taken from the LM prior to descent to the lunar surface with the 60mm lens.

The prominent foreground crater is the 36km Crater Pasteur D located on the eastern rim of Pasteur; the floor of the giant 233-km Crater Pasteur is beyond.

“Instead of an intellectual search, there was suddenly a very deep gut feeling that something was different. It occurred when looking at Earth and seeing this blue-and-white planet floating there, and knowing it was orbiting the Sun, seeing that Sun, seeing it set in the background of the very deep black and velvety cosmos, seeing - rather, knowing for sure - that there was a purposefulness of flow, of energy, of time, of space in the cosmos - that it was beyond man’s rational ability to understand, that suddenly there was a non rational way of understanding that had been beyond my previous experience.”
Edgar Mitchell (Kelley, back cover)