Name: Full Moon over the Earth
Brand: James Lovell
Price: 2000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

James Lovell

Gemini VII, December 4-18, 1965, orbit 63, 099:59:00 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 S-65-63873” in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Lot Essay

This view of the Moon over the western Pacific area was taken from the Gemini VII spacecraft during its historic 14-day mission in space. The nose of the spacecraft is at lower left. The picture was taken with a 70mm handheld Hasselblad 500 C camera and its 80mm lens, using Kodak (SO217 medium) speed film.

“The Moon varied greatly during the 2 weeks of flight,” Frank Borman wrote afterward. “Jim [Lovell] took this picture of the full Moon as a symbol of our next goal in manned space flight, the lunar landing. I think it also dramatizes the difference between mere orbital flight and the future adventures that will take Man a quarter of a million miles into the ocean of space” (Cortright, p. 155).

“Here Borman and Lovell are looking at the full Moon they’d be taking close-ups of three years later,” noted NASA chief of photography Richard Underwood (Schick and Van Haaften, p. 55).