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NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Liftoff to the Moon

Apollo 16, April 16, 1972

Large-format presentation vintage chromogenic print on resin coated Kodak paper, 35.5cm x 27.7cm (11 x 14in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso

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Ken Mattingly

The nearly full Planet Earth

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972

Large-format presentation vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 27.7 x 35cm
(11 x 14in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso (NASA MSC) [AS16-118-18880]

The twenty-four Apollo astronauts from Apollo 8 in December 1968 to Apollo 17 in December 1972 were the only men in history to see the Earth as a sphere hanging in space.
35.5cm x 27.7cm (11 x 14in)

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Light, plate 117; Chaikin, Voices, p. 170.

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“Apollo is a great adventure. It’s a great step of Man. I think it will go down in history as a reach out to the inquisitiveness, the sense of exploration, the sense of adventure, the quest for knowledge that Man has within us, and it will always be that to me.”
Charles Duke (Chaikin, Voices, p. 198)

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“To stand back and look at the entirety of North America is not something you can take for granted. Yet, here’s a picture to show you that it was done. It wasn’t taken by a black box or a camera we sent out in a satellite into space. It was done by this guy right here who thinks and acts, puts on his pants one leg at a time just like you. How did it feel for that guy to be there, to take the picture? That’s another thing. The pictures alone don’t do the whole job—they don’t properly record the emotional or the spiritual part of the history that took place—but they sure do carry their share of the load,” said Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan (Schick and Van Haaften, p. 60).