470 a
Alan Shepard or Edgar Mitchell

The Earth emerging from behind the rim of the Moon

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

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 AS14-66-9225” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with three filing holes in top margin

470 b
Alan Shepard or Edgar Mitchell

Crescent Earth rising over the lunar horizon

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

Vintage chromogenic print on resin coated Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC caption numbered “AS14-66-9227” and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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This breathtaking view was photographed through the 60mm lens of the lunar surface Hasselblad camera from the LM Antares during its descent to the lunar surface.

“Suddenly, from behind the rim of the Moon, in long, slow motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth...home.”
Edgar Mitchell (Kelley, plates 42-45)

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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)