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Four rare sequential unpublished views showing the abstract beauty of the Earth, Apollo 6, 4 April 1968 Vintage chromogenic prints on fibre-based Kodak paper, 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in), RED NUMBERED NASA AS6-2-860, NASA AS6-2-883, NASA AS6-2-1029, NASA AS6-2-1033, with A KODAK PAPER watermarks on versos, , (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center), (4) Footnotes: Apollo 6 was the final unmanned Apollo test mission of the Saturn V rocket that would take astronauts to the Moon. An automated 70mm Maurer still camera was mounted in the Command Module of the Apollo 6 vehicle to take photographs of the Earth; the camera was recovered with the capsule in the Pacific Ocean. The photographic mission of Apollo 6 was to photograph a whole orbit of the Earth in a vertical sequence, which would begin at the end of the first orbit near New Orleans and terminate at the end of the second orbit over Baja California. These photographs show abstract land, ocean, clouds, waves and Sun glint. "While Apollo 6 was orbiting the Earth, the spacecraft's special 70-millimetre camera obtained some spectacular colour stereo photographs. These were later found to be excellent for cartographic, topographic, and geographic studies of continental areas, coastal regions, and shallow waters. The camera photographed sections of the United States, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, and the western Pacific Ocean, and had a haze-penetrating film and filter combination that provided better color balance and higher resolution than any photographs obtained during the Mercury and Gemini flights" (https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/the-legacy-of-apollo-6). Condition Report: Light toning, very good Condition Report Disclaimer