[Apollo 15] Planet Earth, as seen as a delicate “Black Marble” during translunar coast. Alfred Worden, David Scott or James Irwin, 26 July – 7 August 1971. Printed 1971. Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper [NASA image AS15–99-13413]. 25.4×20.3 cm (10×8 in), numbered “NASA AS15–99-13413” in black in top margin (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas). This extremely rare unreleased ultraviolet photograph of our Home Planet, seen as a delicate marble floating in the dark void of space, was taken 49,511 nautical miles [91,694 km] from Earth with a special 105mm lens and spectroscopic film. To take that ultraviolet photograph of the Earth, the crew had to specially maneuver the spacecraft so that the UV transmitting window, window 5, was facing the target. Window 5 was to the right of the Command Module as viewed from the couches. The Hasselblad camera, fitted with the special 105-mm UV-transmitting lens and magazine 99/N, was mounted in a bracket in the window. (from the AFJ mission transcript at 010:10:07 GET). “As we got further and further away, the Earth diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.” James Irwin (Kelley, Plate 38). “You can see the whole Earth at about ten thousand miles. And you start taking pictures. You take one at ten, and one at fifteen, and one at twenty, etc., etc. And of course, they’re all the same; it’s just that the Earth takes less of the field of view of the camera as you get further away. But you don’t think that. You think, Oh, I wanna take another picture now. I wanna take another picture now. It’s spectacular. Oh, it’s spectacular.“ David Scott (Chaikin, Voices, p. 29). Condition Light curling and softening to edges, light creasing to upper right and bottom left corners, otherwise excellent condition. Preview In Lyngby Auction Space, 15 November 2023 Category Photos ▸ Vintage photographs Selling 15 November at 6:48 pm Estimate 6,000–8,000 DKK
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[Apollo 15] Planet Earth, as seen as a delicate “Black Marble” during translunar coast. Alfred Worden, David Scott or James Irwin, 26 July – 7 August 1971. Printed 1971. Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper [NASA image AS15–99-13413]. 25.4×20.3 cm (10×8 in), numbered “NASA AS15–99-13413” in black in top margin (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas). This extremely rare unreleased ultraviolet photograph of our Home Planet, seen as a delicate marble floating in the dark void of space, was taken 49,511 nautical miles [91,694 km] from Earth with a special 105mm lens and spectroscopic film. To take that ultraviolet photograph of the Earth, the crew had to specially maneuver the spacecraft so that the UV transmitting window, window 5, was facing the target. Window 5 was to the right of the Command Module as viewed from the couches. The Hasselblad camera, fitted with the special 105-mm UV-transmitting lens and magazine 99/N, was mounted in a bracket in the window. (from the AFJ mission transcript at 010:10:07 GET). “As we got further and further away, the Earth diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.” James Irwin (Kelley, Plate 38). “You can see the whole Earth at about ten thousand miles. And you start taking pictures. You take one at ten, and one at fifteen, and one at twenty, etc., etc. And of course, they’re all the same; it’s just that the Earth takes less of the field of view of the camera as you get further away. But you don’t think that. You think, Oh, I wanna take another picture now. I wanna take another picture now. It’s spectacular. Oh, it’s spectacular.“ David Scott (Chaikin, Voices, p. 29). Condition Light curling and softening to edges, light creasing to upper right and bottom left corners, otherwise excellent condition. Preview In Lyngby Auction Space, 15 November 2023 Category Photos ▸ Vintage photographs Selling 15 November at 6:48 pm Estimate 6,000–8,000 DKK
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