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UV photographs of the increasing Crescent Earth and the receding full Moon during the homeward journey; return to Earth, July 26-August 7, 1971
A. Worden; NASA [Apollo 15]
Price Realised GBP 625
Price Realised GBP 625
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As the crew headed back home with the Sun in front of the spacecraft, Alfred Worden picked up a Hasselblad camera fitted with a special UV transmitting 105mm lens on board and captured these amazing views of the full Moon diminishing in size and of the very thin crescent Earth increasing in size, illuminated by sunlight from the side and basked in the beam of a lens flare.
This particular 70mm film magazine (99/N) contained spectroscopic film for ultraviolet photographs.
Apollo 15 was 113,437 nautical miles [210,085 km] from Earth when the first photograph was taken and 37,858 nautical miles [70,113 km] when the last three were taken.
“In richness of scientific return, the Apollo 15 voyage to the plains at Hadley compares with voyages of Darwin’s HMS Beagle, and those of Endeavor and Resolution. Just as those epic ocean voyages set the stage for a revolution in the biological sciences and exploration generally, so also the flight of Falcon and Endeavor did the same in planetary and Earth sciences and will guide the course of future explorations,” remarked NASA administrator James Fletcher (NASA SP-289, foreword).
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“The Apollo 15 Command Module (CM), with astronauts David R. Scott, commander; Alfred
M. Worden, command module pilot; and James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, aboard safely touched down in the mid-Pacific Ocean to conclude a highly successful lunar landing mission. Although causing no harm to the crew men, one of the three main parachutes failed to function properly. The splashdown occurred at 3:45:53 p.m. (CDT), Aug. 7, 1971, some 330 miles north of Honolulu, Hawaii. The three astronauts were picked up by helicopter and flown to the prime recovery ship, USS Okinawa, which was only 6 1/2 miles away” (NASA caption for a variant of the first photograph).
“When I came back after twelve days on the flight to the Moon, I could appreciate little things like being able to sit in a chair and feel pressure against my backside, to be able to walk in a normal fashion, to be able to eat with a spoon, to be able to lie down on a bed and stay in that position, to be able to smell things, to appreciate the sense of the Earth, to really hear sounds. We had been in an environment where we took our sound with us, because space has no sound, it’s a vacuum. That was certainly very true about the Moon. The world of no sound, no smell, no sense,” said James Irwin (Kelley, plate 130).
As the crew headed back home with the Sun in front of the spacecraft, Alfred Worden picked up a Hasselblad camera fitted with a special UV transmitting 105mm lens on board and captured these amazing views of the full Moon diminishing in size and of the very thin crescent Earth increasing in size, illuminated by sunlight from the side and basked in the beam of a lens flare.
This particular 70mm film magazine (99/N) contained spectroscopic film for ultraviolet photographs.
Apollo 15 was 113,437 nautical miles [210,085 km] from Earth when the first photograph was taken and 37,858 nautical miles [70,113 km] when the last three were taken.
“In richness of scientific return, the Apollo 15 voyage to the plains at Hadley compares with voyages of Darwin’s HMS Beagle, and those of Endeavor and Resolution. Just as those epic ocean voyages set the stage for a revolution in the biological sciences and exploration generally, so also the flight of Falcon and Endeavor did the same in planetary and Earth sciences and will guide the course of future explorations,” remarked NASA administrator James Fletcher (NASA SP-289, foreword).
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“The Apollo 15 Command Module (CM), with astronauts David R. Scott, commander; Alfred
M. Worden, command module pilot; and James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, aboard safely touched down in the mid-Pacific Ocean to conclude a highly successful lunar landing mission. Although causing no harm to the crew men, one of the three main parachutes failed to function properly. The splashdown occurred at 3:45:53 p.m. (CDT), Aug. 7, 1971, some 330 miles north of Honolulu, Hawaii. The three astronauts were picked up by helicopter and flown to the prime recovery ship, USS Okinawa, which was only 6 1/2 miles away” (NASA caption for a variant of the first photograph).
“When I came back after twelve days on the flight to the Moon, I could appreciate little things like being able to sit in a chair and feel pressure against my backside, to be able to walk in a normal fashion, to be able to eat with a spoon, to be able to lie down on a bed and stay in that position, to be able to smell things, to appreciate the sense of the Earth, to really hear sounds. We had been in an environment where we took our sound with us, because space has no sound, it’s a vacuum. That was certainly very true about the Moon. The world of no sound, no smell, no sense,” said James Irwin (Kelley, plate 130).
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A. Worden; NASA [Apollo 15]
UV photographs of the increasing Crescent Earth and the receding full Moon during the homeward journey; return to Earth, July 26-August 7, 1971
Estimate: GBP 1,200 - 1,800
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