Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Government agency: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA)
Event Date: 1969-05-24
Medium: COLOR
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.236470

Inscriptions:
Recto, typed: NASA / AS10-27-3956; Verso, stamped: NASA NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION / HOUSTON, TEXAS 77058 / FOR RELEASE: 28 MAY 1969 [date typed] / PHOTO NO. / S-69-34480 [typed number] / THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS A GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION – NOT SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT. / It may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NASA or by any NASA employee / of a commercial product, process, or service, or used in any other manner that might mis- / lead. Accordingly, it is requested that if this photograph is used in advertising, posters, / books, etc., layout and copy be submitted to NASA prior to release. NASA MSC also / requests written notification of any uses of this photograph in scientific-engineering projects; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR; stamped: Please, do not alter / mark, or airbrush this / print. / Prints must be returned / after use. / Black Star, Library; handwritten: px 3101; typed: COLOR / 24 MAY 1969 / AS10-27-3956 / MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS / APOLLO 10 VIEW OF MOON – This photograph of the moon was / taken after transearth insertion when the Apollo 10 space- / craft was high above the lunar equator near 27 degrees east / longitude. HOLD PICTURE WITH TERMINATOR ON THE LEFT. North / is about 20 degrees left of the top of the photograph. The / terminator is near 5 degrees west longitude. Apollo Landing / Site 3 is on the lighted side of the terminator in a dark / area just north of the equator. Apollo Landing Side 2 is near / the lower left margin of the Sea of Tranquility (Mare Tranquillitatis) / which is the large, dark area near the center of the / photograph.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: ASTRONOMY / MOON
Retouching: N