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Harrison Schmitt

The expended Saturn SIVB third stage drifting through space after extraction of the LM and jettison

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, 004:57:10 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 AS17-148-22712” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

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Harrison Schmitt

Telephotograph of Southern Africa, Madagascar and Antarctica, taken from the spacecraft heading to the Moon

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, 004:57:24 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on resin coated Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA Goddard caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso [NASA AS17-148-22717]

628 c
Harrison Schmitt

Diptych: Half of the “Blue Marble”

Apollo 17, December 7-19, 1972, 004:57:24 GET

Two unreleased photographs, adjoining views, vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based Kodak paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the versos, numbered “NASA AS17-148-22720, AS17-148-22722” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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004:53:31 Cernan: Okay. She’s - as we’re looking at it (the SIVB), she’s pitching up. [...] It looked like a super clean separation. [...] We’re beginning to - to pick up the bell. It’s really a shame you don’t have this - this whole thing on TV; it’s really quite a sight.
004:54:12 Overmyer (Mission Control): Roger. We concur with that.
004:54:25 Cernan: The Mylar and the gold coating on the inside of the shroud that’s now visible is also intact. It looks like you could use it again if you could get it back.
004:54:43 Overmyer: Well, it’s got a job to do when it hits the Moon yet.
004:55:15 Cernan: Okay, Bob. We’ve - we’re almost looking at it broadside now.
004:55:20 Overmyer: Roger.
004:56:01 Cernan: Okay. She’s spitting a little; looks like the yaw maneuver may be complete. [...]
004:56:32 Overmyer: Roger, Gene. If you’re happy, we’d like a Go from you for the evasive burn. [...]
004:56:48 Cernan: Let’s get a picture or two here yet, and we’ll give you a Go.
004:56:58 Overmyer: And, Gene, it’ll be about 7 minutes until the evasive burn; 5 plus 03.
004:57:03 Cernan: Okay. You have a Go.
004:57:10 Schmitt: And for your reference, at frame 105 I started a few 250-millimeter pictures of the S-IVB.

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Schmitt took the photograph after he fitted the Hasselblad with the 250mm telephoto lens
following the jettison of the expended SIVB third stage.

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These adjoining photographs depicting half of the famous “Blue Marble” were taken through the 250mm telephoto lens.

“Like the childhood that we now only visit changing in time but not changing in the mind, we see the full Earth revolve beneath us. All the tracks of man’s earlier greatness and folly are displayed in the window: the Roman world, the explorers’ paths around the continents, the trails across older frontiers, the great migrations of peoples. The strange perspective is that of the entire Earth filling only one window, and gradually not even doing that. No longer is it the Earth of our past but only a delicate blue globe in space,” noted Harrison Schmitt (NASA SP-350, p. 265).

004:59:37 Cernan: Bob (Overmeyer, Mission Control), I know - I know we’re not the first to discover this, but we’d like to confirm, from the crew of America, that the world is round.