[Large Format] The Moon after transEarth injection, taken by Fairchild metric camera, April 16-27, 1972

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Lot 622 | [Large Format] The Moon after transEarth injection, taken by Fairchild metric camera, April 16-27, 1972
Taken by the automatic Fairchild metric camera mounted on the SIM bay of the Command Module and operated by Ken Mattingly

The Moon after transEarth injection

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972

Large-format presentation vintage gelatin silver print on textured fiber-based paper, 50.5 x 40.5cm (20 x 16in), with “Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation Space and Defense Systems” in bottom margin [NASA AS16-M-3022] (NASA / Fairchild)

This amazing ‘whole Moon’ photograph taken with the 3-inch lens is centered on craters Hertz and Moiseev (latitude / longitude: 13.5° N / 103.5° E).
50.5 x 40.5cm (20 x 16in)
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