Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, 005:06:54 GET

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 AS10-34-5014]
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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The black sky of space was cropped by NASA photo editors in this more famous version of frame AS10-34-5014 so that the Earth appears bigger in the picture.

From the mission transcript as the crew and Mission Control (watching the TV transmission from the spacecraft) commented this exhilarating view of Earth:

005:10:05 Duke (Mission Control): Okay, this has got to be the greatest sight ever.
005:10:08 Stafford: You ought to see it up here. [...]
005:10:57 Cernan: Charlie, this is - It’s so hard to
describe. You can go right up past Alaska, and you can see the polar caps. It’s incredible. [...]
005:11:12 Cernan: That’s great. And the blackest black that you ever could conceive is the setting for all this. [...]
005:11:53 Cernan: Charlie, you know, you blink your eyes and you look out there and you know it’s three dimensional, but it is just sitting out there in the middle of nowhere and it’s unbelievable.