Taken by a color TV camera on board the spacecraft

Eugene Cernan, John Young and Thomas Stafford weightless in their spacecraft heading to another world

Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, 007:19:49 GET

Three vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based Kodak paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC captions and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the versos, numbered “NASA S- 69-33998, S-69-33997, S-69-33999” in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Apollo 10 sent the first color TV transmissions from space.

When these pictures were made, the Apollo 10 spacecraft was already about 36,000 nautical miles from Earth.

007:19:49 McCandless (Mission Control): We see Smiling John down there.
007:19:51 Stafford: He’s just turning around down here.
007:19:53 Young: In living color.
007:20:10 McCandless: Tom, you can’t believe - it’s really great. The colors are fantastic. [...]
007:21:37 Stafford: Over here is Gene-o.
007:21:46 McCandless: Roger. We’re looking at Gene right now. Understand you all haven’t got your suits off yet.
007:21:54 Stafford: John has his suit off and all stowed, and Gene and I don’t. [...]
007:23:58 Cernan: You can see the sun coming in over my shoulder, and then on Tom, its really tremendous.
007:24:05 McCandless: Yes, indeed. It certainly is bright there.

“After my first two missions, I felt we needed to show the public “real-time”. So I helped put together the first color TV camera for Apollo 10. We got an Emmy for that one.”
Thomas Stafford (Schick and Van Haaften, p. 48)