Apollo 8, December 21-27, 1968, orbit 8

Set of three unreleased photographs, vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based Kodak paper, adjoining views, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso (NASA / North American Rockwell) [NASA AS8-14-2447, AS8-14-2450 and AS8-14-2449]
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Borman took the photographs during Lovell and Anders’ sleep period looking southeast with the 250mm telephoto lens.

“Tsiolkovsky is a large, 200-km crater on the far Moon’s side which was first photographed by the Soviet probe Luna 3 on 7 October 1959. In the poor imagery of the time, its dark, mare-like interior made it stand out from the other craters that pepper the farside. The triumphant Soviets, in the manner of all explorers, promptly and appropriately named it after the Polish-Russian pioneer of spaceflight theory, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935). A dominant, W-shaped central peak of light colored highland material rising out of the dark material makes this crater particularly distinctive and striking” (from the Apollo 15 Flight Journal at 083:16:51).