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Edgar Mitchell operating the live color TV camera; the LM Antares and the US flag; lunarscape at Fra Mauro, January 31-February 9, 1971, EVA 1

Alan Shepard [Apollo 14]

Name: Edgar Mitchell operating the live color TV camera; the LM Antares and the US flag; lunarscape at Fra Mauro, January 31-February 9, 1971, EVA 1
Brand: Alan Shepard [Apollo 14]
Price: 1500.00 GBP
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Edgar Mitchell operating the live color TV camera; the LM Antares and the US flag; lunarscape at Fra Mauro, January 31-February 9, 1971, EVA 1

Alan Shepard [Apollo 14]

Price Realised GBP 1,875

Closed: 20 Nov 2020

Price Realised GBP 1,875

Closed: 20 Nov 2020

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Alan Shepard

Edgar Mitchell operating the live color TV camera on the lunar surface

Apollo 14, January 31 - February 9, 1971, EVA 1, 114:49:48 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS14- 66-9240” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

475 b
Alan Shepard

The LM Antares and the American flag at Fra Mauro

Apollo 14, January 31 - February 9, 1971, EVA 1, 114:53:34 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS14-66-9277” in red in top margin

475 c
Alan Shepard

Lunar landscape at Fra Mauro

Apollo 14, January 31 - February 9, 1971, EVA 1, 114:53:34 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS14-66-9291” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

475 b
Reynolds, pp. 4-5.

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Lot Essay

A frame from the panoramic sequence taken by Shepard from the 4 o’clock position relative to the LM hatch (northeast of the LM).
NASA released a variant of this photograph after the mission (AS14-66-9241).

Mitchell is “giving Mission Control a guided tour of the area surrounding the landing site” (Constantine, p.49).

After the failure of Apollo 12’s TV camera, the pictures being transmitted were the first full transmission of color TV from the Moon.
The sheet near the lower left corner of the photograph is the cover of the S-band antenna.

114:48:37 Mitchell: Okay. Can you see the horizon (on the TV picture)?
114:48:39 McCandless (Mission Control): That’s affirmative. The horizon is about two-thirds of the way up from the bottom of the tube. The flag is over near the left-hand corner of the field-of-view. And that little rise is sort of centered. (Pause) With the small crater off to the left.
114:48:55 Mitchell: Okay, that’s just about where I wanted it. (Hearing McCandless’ last sentence) Rog. The far horizon, Bruce, is a ridge that seems to run around this bowl that we’re sitting in...It appears to be a ridge. It runs down from what we called “Old Nameless” to the south, and it runs to the west. It seems to be roughly circular but, of course, we could be a little bit deceived, at this point, on that score. The little rise you see in front of us is...
114:49:31 McCandless: Say, Ed.
114:49:33 Mitchell: ...a rise that’s shown on the map. The craters are on the map. Since I don’t have it handy, it - I’ll have to give you the coordinates later, but I think you already know them. They are about 150 feet south...
114:49:47 McCandless: Ed, this is Houston.
114:49:48 Mitchell: ...southwest of the LM. Go ahead.

A frame from the panoramic sequence taken by Shepard from the 8 o’clock position relative to the LM hatch (southwest of the LM) while Mitchell (hidden behind the LM) was doing a TV panorama of the lunar surface for Mission Control.

“At the foot of the ladder, the square grid-like object is the LRRR (Laser Ranging Retro Reflector) which can be seen sitting on the west footpad, this would later be
deployed by Alan Shepard at the lunar-science station” (Constantine, p.51).

114:53:26 Mitchell: [...] I think Al’s about to finish up his task over there.
114:53:34 Shepard: Negative. I’m still working at 8 o’clock (taking a panorama).

A frame from the panoramic sequence taken by Shepard from the 8 o’clock position relative to the LM hatch (southwest of the LM).

Despite all the things that he had previously heard from fellow astronauts, Shepard was still startled by the blackness of the lunar scene. “It certainly is a stark place here at Fra Mauro,” he said (at 113:49:43 GET in the mission transcript). “I think it’s made all the more stark by the fact that the sky is completely black”.