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Half Earth; the LM Intrepid during transposition and docking on the way to the Moon, November 14-24, 1969

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

Name: Half Earth; the LM Intrepid during transposition and docking on the way to the Moon, November 14-24, 1969
Brand: R. Gordon, P. Conrad or A. Bean [Apollo 12]
Price: 1100.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 1,375

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Half Earth; the LM Intrepid during transposition and docking on the way to the Moon, November 14-24, 1969

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

Price Realised GBP 1,375

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Richard Gordon, Pete Conrad, or Alan Bean

The LM Intrepid stowed in the Saturn SIVB third stage during transposition and docking on the way to the Moon

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 AS12-50-7327” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

398 b
Richard Gordon, Pete Conrad, or Alan Bean

Half Earth

Apollo 12, November 14-24, 1969, 004:45:00 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 AS12-50-7353” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Lot Essay

398 a
This photograph was taken following CSM separation from LM/S-IVB and prior to Lunar Module docking and extraction from the SIVB stage. The Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA)
panels have already been jettisoned.

NASA released a variant of this photograph (AS12-50- 7328).

398 b
The entire American continent is visible in this photograph taken with the 80mm lens after transposition, docking, extraction of the LM and jettison of the Saturn IV-B stage from an altitude of about 16,000 nautical miles.
North America is to the top and South America to the bottom.

Around that time, the Apollo 12 crew was sending a TV transmission to Earth:

004:19:55 Bean: Earth is about one and a half times the size of a basketball right now. [...]
004:22:41 Gordon: Houston, we’re changing the scenery on you (with the TV camera); we’ll come back to that S-IVB just before it goes. [...]
004:22:58 Gordon: How does the homeland look to you?
004:23:02 Carr (Mission Control): Beginning to look kind of small.