444 a
Jack Swigert, Fred Haise, or James Lovell

Baja California and the Gulf of California seen from orbit before translunar injection

Apollo 13, April 11-17, 1970, 001:31:13 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 AS13-60-8578” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

444 b
Jack Swigert, Fred Haise, or James Lovell

The planet Earth

Apollo 13, April 11-17, 1970, 004:32:00 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS13-60-8588” in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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The photograph was taken through the 80mm lens.

001:31:13 Swigert: And we’re just coming up on Baja, and I’ve got the TV on. Do you want it?
001:31:18 Kerwin (Mission Control): I don’t think we require it just yet, Jack, but we’ll command it when we’re ready. I believe they are dumping the tape now. The booster looks good. The spacecraft looks good on the few minutes’ data we’ve had.
001:31:31 Swigert: That sounds good.
001:31:40 Swigert: Jim finally let me look out.
001:31:41 Kerwin: (Laughter) How do you like it? [Pause.]
001:31:52 Swigert: Chained me to the LEB (Lower Equipment Bay) down there stowing things and unstowing things, and I finally got a chance to look out and see the world.

444 b
The photograph was taken through the 80mm lens after transposition, docking and extraction of the LM; and jettison of the expended Saturn SIVB third stage. The most visible land mass includes southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. The peninsula of Baja California is clearly seen. Most of the land area is under heavy cloud cover.

“In spaceflight, when we orbited the Earth, we thought in terms of continents. We were over the US; now we’re over a body of water. We’re over Africa now; we’re over Australia now. In the lunar flight, we thought in terms of bodies. The Moon’s here, the Sun’s there, the Earth is there,” said James Lovell (Chaikin, Voices, p. 25).