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John Young, Eugene Cernan, or Thomas Stafford

Vertical view of the future Apollo 11 landing site

Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, orbit 23, 120:33:30 GET

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption on the verso, numbered “NASA AS10-31-4537” in black in top margin

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Eugene Cernan

The Earth emerging from behind the rim of the Moon

Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, orbit 24, 122:05:52 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso (NASA / North American Rockwell) [NASA AS10-27-3887]
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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This photograph from magazine 31/R is a frame from the photographic strip recorded by the crew with the 80mm lens from the lunar farside terminator to the nearside terminator (first taken with magazine 28/O, this strip was completed with magazine 31/R).

[NASA caption] The proposed landing area for Apollo 11 (Lunar Landing Site 2) is a relatively smooth maria area in the bottom left quadrant of the photographed area. Apollo 10 traveled from the top to the bottom of the picture. The prominent linear feature at right is Hypatia Rille (called “U.S. 1” by the Apollo 10 crew). The prominent crater centered in Hypatia Rille at bottom right is Moltke C (code name “Chuck Hole”). Moltke, the prominent crater to the left of Hypatia Rille, is centered near 24.2 degrees east longitude, and 0.6 degrees south latitude.

120:33:24 Stafford: Picking up U.S. 1 on the right.
120:33:30 Lousma (Mission Control): Roger.
120:33:52 Cernan: We’ve got Moltke out my right window. We’re right over Landing Site 2.

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This amazing photograph was taken looking west over Smyth’s Sea through the 250mm telephoto lens.
122:01:27 Stafford: Yes. it’s got to be f:11 at 1/250 - on both of them. right? OK. babe. Get the slide out. and we’ll be all set. We’ll make these go boom, boom, boom. Is that the black - the color (magazine) I had in the...
122:01:45 Cernan: This is the color we had in the LM. [...]
122:01:58 Stafford: Oh, we’ve got a ways to go. We’ll have acquisition from the Earth soon.
122:02:27 Stafford: Now. if that isn’t a tan color, absolutely tan, I don’t know what the hell is. [...]
122:05:52 Cernan: There it is.
122:05:53 Stafford: Hit it, quick. Go, baby, go.
122:05:56 Young: What?
122:05:57 Stafford: The Earth. Hit it. Again, baby...