454 a
Jack Swigert or Fred Haise

Partial telephoto view of the Moon

Apollo 13, April 11-17, 1970

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 AS13-60-8705” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

454 b
Jack Swigert or Fred Haise

Telephotograph of the nearly Full Moon

Apollo 13, April 11-17, 1970

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 AS13-60-8712” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

454 c
Jack Swigert, Fred Haise, or James Lovell

The Earth after the “slingshot” pass around the Moon

Apollo 13, April 11-17, 1970

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 AS13-61-8843” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

454 d
Jack Swigert, Fred Haise, or James Lovell

The Moon rising in the window of the spacecraft

Apollo 13, April 11-17, 1970

Two unreleased photographs, vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based Kodak paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in) and with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, the first stamped “AS13- 61-8847” on the verso (NASA MSC), the other numbered “NASA AS13-61-8848” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

454 e
Jack Swigert, Fred Haise, or James Lovell

The Moon receding behind the spacecraft

Apollo 13, April 11-17, 1970

Four unreleased photographs, vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based Kodak paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in) and with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS13-61-8850, AS13- 61-8861, AS13-61-8869, AS13-61-8874” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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454 a
This photograph was taken through the 250mm telephoto lens.
Lunar farside features including Crater Tsiolkovsky are visible at the left of the picture.

Swigert and Haise used both the lunar surface Hasselblad Data Camera equipped with a 60mm lens and the Hasselblad EL equipped with a 250mm telephoto lens to shoot pictures of the Moon.

From the mission transcript as Fred Haise noticed that one of the Hasselblad film magazines was almost full (with only 26 frames remaining):

081:38:10 Haise: [Garble] finish [garble]. [Pause.]
081:38:19 Lovell: That’s bad news.
081:38:20 Lovell: Take 26 pictures of you?
081:38:23 Haise: Why not?
081:38:29 Haise: You want to bring all the film back empty?
081:38:38 Haise: I’d like to just [garble] and shoot it.
081:38:42 Haise: Every last lousy one of them.

454 b
The spacecraft was more than 11,500 nautical miles away from the Moon when the astronauts took this superb photograph of the nearly full Moon showing Craters Ptolemaus and Alphonsus at the terminator (top right of picture) through the 250mm telephoto lens.

081:42:27 Swigert: Gad, there’s Ptolemaeus and Alphonsus.
081:42:30 Haise: Yes, sure enough.
081:42:32 Swigert: See them right over the edge. [Long pause.]
081:43:11 Swigert: Here, let me shoot a few pictures of the old Moon here. [...]
081:45:00 Public Affairs Officer (Mission Control): This is Apollo Control, Houston; at 81 hours, 45 minutes now into the flight. Apollo 13 presently 11,587 nautical miles [21,459 km] away from the Moon and travelling at a velocity of 4,600 feet per second [1,402 m/s].

454 c
The spacecraft was more than 11,500 nautical miles away from the Moon when this photograph was taken through the 60mm lens.
The reflection of another window is visible in this photograph taken through the window of the LM.

“I never felt we were in a hopeless situation… No, we never had that emotion at all. We never were with our backs to the wall, where there were no more ideas, or nothing else to try, or no possible solution. That never came.”
Fred Haise (Chaikin, Voices, p. 139)

454 d
A dark part of the spacecraft heading back to Earth is hiding part of the lunar disc in these photographs taken with the 60mm lens.

454 e
These photographs were taken with magazine 61/II and the 60mm lens from increasing distances from the spacecraft heading back to Earth.

“The finest hour, in my viewpoint, of the space program was getting Apollo 13 back, not the first lunar landing.”
Apollo 10 astronaut Thomas Stafford (Chaikin, Voices, p. 150)