Apollo 7, October 11-22, 1968, orbit 134, 213:19:00 GET

Large format presentation vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based GAF paper, 35.8 x 28.2cm (14 x 11in), with NASA caption numbered “AS7-8-1933” on a separate sheet and “GAF” watermarks on the verso indicating this print was made in 1971 (the photograph was inverted in error when it was printed)
35.8 x 28.2cm (14 x 11in)

Schick and Van Haaften, p. 85; Light, plate 8; Jacobs, p. 26; Reynolds, p. 79.

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[NASA caption] The morning Sun reflects on the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean as seen from the Apollo 7 spacecraft at an altitude of 122 nautical miles above Earth. Most of Florida peninsula appears as a dark silhouette. This photograph was made during the spacecraft’s 134th revolution of Earth, some 213 hours and 19 minutes after liftoff.

Apollo 7 captured some of the most beautiful images ever taken of the Earth, including this Sunrise over Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

“Everything came together on day nine, and we found ourselves looking at the Florida Peninsula, which had been our home for much of the preceding three years. Grabbing the Hasselblad camera. I perpetrated a photographic no-no, taking this picture looking into the Sun.”
Walter Cunningham (Jacobs, p. 27)