John Young, Ken Mattingly or Charles Duke

Panorama of the Earth following translunar injection

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972

Unique hand mosaic of three vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based Kodak paper, overall size 27 x 52.5cm, with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso (NASA MSC) [AS16-118-18867 to AS16-118-18869]
27 x 52.5cm

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Lot Essay

This outstanding panorama showing a great expanse of the cloud-covered Pacific Ocean was taken with the Hasselblad camera equipped with the 80mm lens.

Until now the Apollo astronauts were the only space voyagers to escape the gravitational sphere of influence of the Earth and to travel to another realm.

From the mission transcript after translunar injection:

002:44:35 Duke: Houston, this is the most spectacular view in the - you can possibly imagine.
002:44:40 Young: What did you do with the camera?
002:44:42 Duke: I got it right here.

“I hadn’t been in the air an hour, and I knew I was in deep trouble. Because my mind was being overwhelmed with one extraordinarily impressive view, image, picture and as soon as you got that and you said, ‘Look at that!’ And then, shit, here came another one that was even more impressive! And I remember we were hardly out of Earth orbit when I said, you know, I’m in trouble.”
Ken Mattingly (Chaikin, Voices, p. 171)