154 a
James Lovell or Buzz Aldrin

The Sun illuminating the Atlantic Ocean near south Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas islands

Gemini XII, November 11-15, 1966, orbit 15, 022:31:00 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 KSC) [NASA S-66-63418]

154 b
Buzz Aldrin or James Lovell

Orbital Sunrise

Gemini XII, November 11-15, 1966, orbit 16-17
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 S-66-63443” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

154 c
James Lovell or Buzz Aldrin

Earth from Space; Egypt, Nile Delta and Gulf of Suez

Gemini XII, November 11-15, 1966, orbit 25, 038:55:00 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 28 x 22cm, with McDonnell Douglas credit stamp (indicating the print was made in 1967), “D4C 42059” stamp and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso (NASA / McDonnell Douglas) [NASA S-66-63476]

154 d
James Lovell or Buzz Aldrin

Earth from space; Iran, Persian Gulf

Gemini XII, November 11-15, 1966, orbit 25, 039:00:00 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 S-66-63484” in red in top margin
28 x 22cm (11 x 8¹⁄₂in)

154 a
NASA SP-171, p. 7.

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154 a
South half of Florida (center right of picture), Bahama Islands (Andros-Grand Bahama-Bimini), Cuba are visible below the spacecraft docked to the Agena in this photograph taken looking south with the Super-Wide Hasselblad camera and its 38mm lens.

“Since the girdle that the Gemini program threw around the world did not extend as far north as south of Cape Kennedy, the astronauts’ photographs are predominantly views of the southern coast of the United States around the Gulf of Mexico. This is a region in which people have been quick to develop the resources available to them, and parts of it are now highly industrialized. Even so, when seen from space its beauty still rivals that of many undeveloped regions. [...] Above Florida’s east coast they (the astronauts) saw their starting point again, and sped east again and again to see more of the world” (NASA SP-171, p. 227).

154 b
Cellular cloud formations are visible below the spacecraft docked to the Agena in this amazing photograph taken from space with the Super-Wide Hasselblad camera and its 38mm lens between orbits 16 and 17.

“The astronauts saw the Sun rising and setting far more often during their revolutions of the Earth than people on the Earth’s surface” (NASA SP-171, p. 153).

154 c
United Arab Republic, Nile Valley from Girga to Delta, Cairo, El Faylum, Suez, Gulf of Suez, Sinai photographed from the spacecraft docked to the Agena (whose L-band antenna is in the left foreground) with the Super-Wide Hasselblad camera and its 38mm lens.
NASA released a variant of this photograph (NASA S-66-63477).

“By enabling us to see the scheme of things entire, space photography can help men both exploit an undeveloped region’s natural resources and monitor the skies, seashores, and forests to prevent pollution and degradation of them” (NASA SP-171, p. 227).

154 d
Iran, Persian Gulf, Zagros Mountains, Qishm Island (large island at top left), and Bandar Abbas area photographed from space with the Super-Wide Hasselblad camera and its 38mm lens. The L-band antenna of the Agena satellite docked to the spacecraft is in the right background.