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The Earth with the Spacecraft-LM Adapter drifting near the horizon; the Earth after translunar injection, November 14-24, 1969

R. Gordon, P. Conrad or A. Bean [Apollo 12]

Name: The Earth with the Spacecraft-LM Adapter drifting near the horizon; the Earth after translunar injection, November 14-24, 1969
Brand: R. Gordon, P. Conrad or A. Bean [Apollo 12]
Price: 1300.00 GBP
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The Earth with the Spacecraft-LM Adapter drifting near the horizon; the Earth after translunar injection, November 14-24, 1969

R. Gordon, P. Conrad or A. Bean [Apollo 12]

Price Realised GBP 1,625

Closed: 20 Nov 2020

Price Realised GBP 1,625

Closed: 20 Nov 2020

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397 a
Richard Gordon, Pete Conrad, or Alan Bean

The Earth after translunar injection

Apollo 12, November 14-24, 1969

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 AS12-50-7325” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

397 b
Richard Gordon, Pete Conrad, or Alan Bean

The Earth after translunar injection, with the Spacecraft-LM Adapter (SLA) drifting near the horizon

Apollo 12, November 14-24, 1969, 003:20:00 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 AS12-50-7326” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

397 b
Arnold, plate 28.

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Lot Essay

“This photo was taken not long after translunar injection and is centered on the Gulf Of Mexico near New Orleans. East is at the upper right and north is at the upper left. The Yucatan Pennisula is in the lower right part of the image” (ALSJ caption for AS12-50-7325).

From the mission transcript after transEarth injection:

002:56:57 Carr (Mission Control): Apollo 12, Houston. Your cut-off looked real good. We’ll spend a little time now evaluating your midcourse for you.
002:57:05 Bean: Okay. Earth is starting to get nice and round now; can’t see it all, but we can see a lot of it.
002:57:14 Carr: Roger. [Long pause.]
002:58:00 Carr: Apollo 12, Houston. Your attitude maneuver time is 03:08:04, and it’ll be finished at 03 plus 12 plus 04; and we’re looking at a separation time of 03 plus 18 plus 04.
002:58:19 Conrad: Copy.
002:58:30 Public Affairs Officer (Mission Control): Altitude now 781 nautical miles, velocity down to 32,824 feet per second. Getting rid of all that propellant in the S-IVB has brought the weight down to 138,389 pounds.

The object near the center and above the clouds is one of the four panels that protect the LM during launch and that are jettisoned at the time of CSM separation from the SIVB stage of the launch vehicle.
The photograph was taken through the 80mm lens from an altitude of about 3,800 nautical miles.
Part of the United States and Baja California are on the right side of the image and the Yucatan Peninsula is at bottom center. The Gulf of California is also visible with a great expanse of the Pacific Ocean.

“For those of us who have never experienced spaceflight an impression of this experience is perhaps best communicated by images containing both sharp surface-detail and an extensive sweep of the Earth’s horizon, set in the blackness of interplanetary space. In photographic form such images create a vital feeling of depth and involvement which, for all their beauty, is missing from deep space views” (Arnold, plate 28).

003:19:38 Gordon: The third panel looks like it’s open in the LM, right behind that RCS thruster.
003:19:42 Bean: No, that’s the - the second.
Look at the Earth; isn’t that sharp, Pete Conrad?
003:19:48 Gordon: You - you get the Earth. Let me get a couple more. We can see the whole United States, Houston.