W. Cunningham; W. Schirra; D. Eisele; camera in Apollo 7

197 a
This photograph was taken from an altitude of about 100 nautical miles.

143:27:00 Public Affairs Officer (Mission Control): This is Apollo Control at 143 hours, 27 minutes. At the present time the Apollo 7 spacecraft is coming up on the Tananarive Tracking Station. Flight plan calls for the crew to be involved in photographing the southwest coast of Africa at the present time; and we have a call in to the spacecraft.”

197 b
The photograph was taken from an altitude of about 100 nautical miles.

“The morning Sun causes a spectacular reflection on water surfaces such as the Gulf of Mexico, Galveston Bay, Buffalo Bayou, and the Brazos River, and causes a unique reflection in the canals and rice fields west of Alvin. Some of the landmarks visible in this picture include highways and freeways, the Astrodome, the new Intercontinental Airport, and the Manned Spacecraft Center” (original NASA caption for AS7-7-1872).

From the mission transcript during orbit 91:

144:21:35 Cunningham: Hey, Jack, do you have much this pass because we’re going to be pretty well tied up throwing cameras back and forth. [Pause]
144:21:41 Swigert (Mission Control): Nothing except the morning news which I can read whenever you are able to …
144:21:47 Cunningham: We’ll wait.
144:21:49 Swigert: Fine.
144:23:00 Public Affairs Officer (Mission Control): We are having a relatively quiet pass over the United States at this time. The crew indicated they would be quite busy taking photographs and we expect that they will be attempting shortly to get some additional pictures of Hurricane Gladys as they move out over the Gulf of Mexico and across the Florida peninsula.

197 c
Seething and swirling 100 miles below the spacecraft in orbit over the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Gladys reveals its fury in a 200-mile wide swath off the Cuban coast..

144:27:56 Schirra: Roger. We’re coming into the eye.
144:28:01 Swigert (Mission Control): Say again, Wally.
144:28:02 Schirra: We’ll catch you near the eye of the hurricane.
144:28:04 Swigert: Okay. Real fine.
144:28:06 Schirra: It will be south of us. Man, that’s really a spinner.
144:28:12 Swigert: I copy.
144:28:14 Schirra: It’s really a very good definition here. It starts, and you can see the start of it right below us now. We’re just going over the begining of it. It’s wide open to the west. [Long pause]
144:28:46 Schirra: It’s a very spectacular view. The - there are a lot of broken clouds around the edges of it, but it tightens up in the center. A reel tight vortex and a spotty few high cu - thunderstorms about 100 miles outward - 150 miles off the center. There is a wide blue area, and then it tightens up in the center and reaches a peak just like the thunderstorms we described in South America.

197 d
Donn Eisele (foreground) and Walter Cunningham (background) “looking at the control panel of the spacecraft during weightless maneuvers” (NASA caption).

From the mission transcript during the TV broadcast:

189:04:53 Schirra: Looking at the heart of the spacecraft - as far as reference goes, the so-called FDAI, the flight direction attitude indicator - you are viewing now the various attitudes, and that system is not operating. We are in drifting flight. We will start with our entry monitor system, which we will use Monday evening - actually Tuesday morning - to return. The myriad of switches you see here are for controlling the various attitude thrusters and for monitoring the launch boosters. I’ll pass it on to another unseen hand, and you can view on his panel some of the results. [Long pause]
189:05:46 Eisele: On this portion of the panel, you see the DSKY, that is, the display keyboard for our onboard computer. We use the computer for various calculations for Earth orbit, navigation, and for aligning the inertial platform.

197 e
A rare frame from magazine 8/R. The photograph was taken from an altitude of about 160 nautical miles.

190:45:08 Cunningham: Frame 38, magazine R, is Dallas and frame 39 is the Mississippi River looking north. [Pause]
190:45:17 Swigert (Mission Control): Okay.
190:45:22 Cunningham: Forty is New Orleans, again.
190:45:24 Swigert: Okay.
190:46:00 Public Affairs Officer (Mission control): Walt Cunningham is popping pictures like an airborne tourist. Said he got a shot of Dallas, several of New Orleans, one looking up the Mississippi River towards St. Louis and Memphis.

197 f
Donn Eisele is working in weightlessness at his navigator’s station.

213:13:12 Public Affairs Officer (Mission Control): The camera is looking up at Donn Eisele there, from the lower equipment bay mounted position.
213:13:25 Swigert (Mission Control): That looks real fine. It’s a real good picture.
213:14:00 Public Affairs Officer: Notice Donn Eisele has his suit on, his hoses all hooked up.