281 a
John Young, Eugene Cernan, or Thomas Stafford

The future Apollo 11 landing site area seen from the spacecraft flying over the Sea of Tranquillity

Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, orbit 24

Six unreleased photographs, vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “NASA AS10-31-4602, AS10- 31-4606, AS10-31-4610, AS10-31-4614, AS10-31- 4618, AS10-31-4622” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin (NASA MSC)

281 b
John Young, Eugene Cernan, or Thomas Stafford

Telephoto panorama in the Sea of Tranquillity

Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, orbit 24

Unique hand mosaic of two vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, overall size 30 x 35.5cm, numbered “NASA AS10-31-4624 to AS10-31-4625” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin

281 c
John Young, Eugene Cernan, or Thomas Stafford

Telephoto panorama of Craters Sabine and Schmidt past the future Apollo 11 landing site in the Sea of Tranquillity

Apollo 10, May 18-26, 1969, orbit 24

Unique hand mosaic of two vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, overall size 32.5 x 28cm, numbered “NASA AS10-31-4628 to AS10-31-4629” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin
32.5 x 28cm (12³⁄₄ x 11in)

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281 a
The crew of Apollo 10 used the telephoto 250mm lens to photograph the immediate area of the Apollo 11 landing site (which was still referred to as Site 2 at the time) in an overlapping oblique sequence (photographs from top to bottom and left to right) looking west in order to pave the way for the next crew.
Latitude / longitude: 0.5° N / 24.2° E (first photograph) to 0° N / 21.9° E (last photograph).

122:28:18 Stafford: OK, your IP lead-in is Maskelyne B, and you should just be starting to see it now. I got the landing site.
122:28:42 Young: Boot Hill.
122:28:47 Cernan: Let me get that one for a while, will you?
122:28:51 Young: Duke Island and Boot Hill. There we go.
122:29:08 Stafford: You got it? OK, at...
122:29:11 Young: I don’t have it.
122:29:12 Stafford: ...29:03. It should be up on your horizon...
122:29:15 Young: You’re a ways out. babe.
122:29:16 Stafford: ...and at 22:30...
122:29:18 Young: There’s Dry River. Little Big Snake and Little Snake Rille.
122:29:26 Stafford: I got it.
122:29:31 Young: OK.
122:29:50 Cernan (onboard): There’s Moltke, huh?

281 b
The astronauts took this panorama looking northwest with the 250mm telephoto lens as a
“target of opportunity”. It shows mare surface features, wrinkle ridges and small craters located
north of the Apollo 11 landing site in the Sea of Tranquillity. Latitude / longitude: 3° N / 24.7° E.

281 c
An oblique panorama looking west taken through the 250mm telephoto lens and showing the 11-km Crater Schmidt (top) and the 30-km Crater Sabine cut off at right on the southwestern edge of the Sea of Tranquillity.
Latitude / longitude: 0.7° N / 20° E.