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Alan Bean

Crescent Earth emerging over the lunar horizon, seen from the LM during the descent to the lunar surface

Apollo 12, November 14-24, 1969, orbit 14, 109:43:34 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS12-47-6882” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

405 b
Alan Bean

Crescent Earthrise seen from the LM during the descent to the lunar surface

Apollo 12, November 14-24, 1969, orbit 14, 109:44:11 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 17.5 X 17.5 cm, with “A Kodak Paper”
watermarks on the verso, flush-mounted on original 25.7 x 20.1cm NASA card [NASA AS12-47-6891]
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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The photograph was taken looking west with the 80mm lens. The prominent 36-km Crater Pasteur D is cut off in the foreground with the floor and western wall of the giant 233-km Crater Pasteur well visible beyond it in the left center of picture.

109:39:57 Conrad: I’m watching for him to come up on - I mean the horizon. I can see earthrise.
109:40:04 Bean: I wish I could shoot that shot; it would live forever in the annals of our own personal good will. Coming up to PDI (Powered descent Initiation). [...]
109:41:29 Conrad: The AGS thinks we’re 50 miles, Dick.
109:41:35 Bean: Take this picture and be famous forever. It’s better than when you grab the Surveyor by all of its pricks. These photos accumulate. [...]
109:42:10 Conrad: We’re going to get Earthrise in just a second. You ought to have earthrise by now, Dick.
109:42:34 Gordon (in the Command Module): (Garbled) be a while yet because I’m looking backwards.
109:42:39 Conrad: Oh, that’s right. I forgot. (Pause) It’s going to be about 109:43:30. It’s going to be right straight out there or what, I wonder? I’m kind of guessing it is. [...]
109:43:04 Bean: ... maybe the 15-degree inclination’s going to do something to it. I just always imagined it was right in front of us.
109:43:17 Conrad: 15 more seconds. There ... No. I thought I saw it coming up. 9... 30 seconds.
109:43:34 Conrad: There it is! Look at it! Goldarn! Watch it ... just ... keep ... Just click them (meaning Hasselblad photos) off. Oh, that is fantastic!

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All the Apollo crew waited for the view of Earthrise with eagerness and Apollo 12 was no exception.

Astonished by the view of the quarter Earth rising above the lunar horizon, the LM crew took this photograph through the 60 mm lens just after Descent Orbit Insertion. The large elevation differences on the lunar surface can be clearly seen at the horizon line. The floor and western wall of the giant 233-km Crater Pasteur is in the foreground, typical of the terrain of the lunar farside.

109:44:09 Conrad: You can get some more pictures if you want.
109:44:11 Bean: I’m getting them right now.
109:44:13 Conrad: God dog!
109:44:16 Bean: Tell them about it, babe. (Pause) f:11, (One) 250(th of a second) is what we’ve been using, isn’t it, Pete?
109:44:23 Conrad: Yes, yes.
109:44:16 Bean: That’s got to be so fantastic.