273 a
John Young, Eugene Cernan, or Thomas Stafford

The lunar nearside terminator

Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, orbit 18, 110:45:37 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 (NASA / North American Rockwell) [NASA AS10- 34-5169]

273 b
John Young, Eugene Cernan, or Thomas Stafford

The colored lunar farside horizon

Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, orbit 22

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 (NASA / North American Rockwell) [NASA AS10- 34-5170]

273 c
John Young, Eugene Cernan, or Thomas Stafford

Triptych: Badlands of the lunar farside

Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, orbit 22

Three 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 (NASA / North American Rockwell) [NASA AS10-34-5171, AS10-34-5172 and AS10-34-5173]

273 d
John Young, Eugene Cernan, or Thomas Stafford

Lunar farside horizon

Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, orbit 22

Unreleased photograph, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “NASA AS10-28-3989” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

273 c
Thomas, pp. 172-173 (first photograph).

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273 a
A beautiful view of the 6-km Crater Rhaeticus B on Sinus Medii (Central Bay) taken through the 250mm telephoto lens at the terminator (latitude / longitude: 1.5° N / 7.2° E).

110:45:15 Engle (Mission control): And on the cameras, Tom, if you run into a problem tomorrow, or you want both Hasselblads available. Jack says you can put one battery in each camera, and it should operate OK.
110:45:37 Stafford: Yeah. OK. We’ll give that a try in the morning. We’ll be all ready to go after them and what we’re doing now is we’re passing the terminator. We’re going to go ahead and sack out tonight. It’s been a long day, and we’re just watching, still loving to watch the moonscape go by and observing here as we go over to the terminator. And we’ll be talking to you tomorrow morning. Over.

273 b
This oblique photograph was taken by the crew through the 250mm telephoto lens after a period of sleep in lunar orbit.
The view is looking northeast across the 97-km Crater Papaleksi (left foreground) and the 156-km Crater Spencer Jones (background).
The crew described the Moon’s color as grey-white, but under certain lighting conditions it showed a rosy brown tint.

From the mission transcript during orbit 22 over the lunar farside:
117:54:58 Stafford: You got the color (film magazine) squared away? ... you want to take - Oh, you - oh, you - did this - this what I’d been using yesterday.
117:55:19 Cernan: Yes, it’s out.

273 c
These three adjoining views (last frames of color magazine 34/M) taken looking south through the 250mm telephoto lens show a desolate expanse of lunar badlands on the farside of the Moon.
The large 160-km Keeler crater in the first image shows terracing and a prominent central peak. The sharply defined, steepwalled crater in the second image is approximately 12 miles in diameter (latitude / longitude: 6° S / 158° E).
“Rubble, probably ejecta material, can be seen on the outer slopes surrounding the crater” (NASA SP-246, p.84).
A larger, more subdued crater is located above the steep-walled crater and also partially visible in the third photograph (bottom left).
The relief, contrasted against the black sky of space, shows the ruggedness of the surrounding terrain.

273 d
The view was taken with the 250mm telephoto lens looking southeast over the 123-km Crater Chaplygin (cut off in the right foreground) and the 80-km Crater Schliemann (left) as the crew used B&W magazine 28/O after completing photography on color magazine 34/M.

From the mission transcript during orbit 22 over the lunar farside:

118:01:50 Stafford: Do you want the color, babe? This is used. We’re all out of color on this (magazine).
118:02:25 Stafford: Here’s one over here, Gene-o. See that black (and white magazine)? Black is [garble]. Can you see over to the left here or do you want me to take it? Hold it, Gene-o. How much - how much of the stuff we got left? About out?