Gemini IV / Unidentified photographer

The Red Sea seen from Earth orbit

June 7, 1965

Vintage photograph with black NASA MSC number “S-65-34664” and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso with NASA MSC caption.
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Gemini – 4 Earth-sky view – This photograph shows a portion of the western shore of the Red Sea as seen from the Gemini-4 spacecraft during orbital flight of the earth on June 3-7, 1965. North is in the opposite corner of the photograph from the S-65 number. The picture was made with a modified 70mm Hasselblad camera, using Eastman Colour, ASA 64 at a lens setting of 250th of a second at f/11. Dr. Paul Lowman Jr., NASA geologist, was in charge of the Synoptic Terrain Photography.

From NASA caption.