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Jack Swigert or Fred Haise

The nearly full Moon seen from increasing distances

Apollo 13, April 11-17, 1970

Four unreleased photographs, 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 AS13-61-8758, AS13-61-8772, AS13-61-8793, AS13-61-8819” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

453 b
Jack Swigert or Fred Haise

Full Moon

Apollo 13, April 11-17, 1970

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 AS13-61-8795” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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453 a
These series of photographs from magazine 61/II were taken through the 60mm lens over the course of several hours.

From the mission transcript before the critical burn of the Descent Propulsion Engine of the LM needed to correct their flight path for the journey back to Earth:

078:42:14 Haise: We’re taking about a thousand pictures [of the receding Moon] in between steps there, too.

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This outstanding view of the full Moon, in a perspective seen only by the Apollo astronauts from December 1968 to December 1972, was photographed through the 60mm lens from the spacecraft at the beginning of its journey back to Earth.

From the mission transcript before the critical burn of the Descent Propulsion Engine of the LM needed to correct their flight path for the journey back to Earth:

079:06:31 Brand: Okay, Aquarius. We have some new information regarding what you shoud see out the commander’s window at TIG (Time of Ignition). Over.
079:06:44 Lovell: Okay. Go ahead.
079:06:48 Brand: According to calculations - calculations, you should see the Moon. It’ll be a full
Moon. You should see most of the disk [...]
079:07:38 Lovell: Okay, Houston. I concur. I’m looking at 14 on the LPD and the angle is just about centered. It’s south of Crisium, but it’s - The line is just slightly to the north of center. [...]
079:08:48 Lovell: I can even see Mount Marilyn from here. [During apollo 8 Lovell named a lunar mountain located 110 km east of Crater Secchi and separating the Sea of Fertility to the east from the Sea of Tranquillity to the west after his wife Marilyn Lovell].