Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Government agency: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA)
Event Date: 1968-12
Medium: COLOR
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.237382

Inscriptions:
Recto, typed: NASA / AS8-14-2431; Verso, stamped: Please, do not alter / mark, or airbrush this / print. / Prints must be returned / after use. / Black Star, Library; handwritten: # 25 / NASA; typed label: DEC 1968 AS8-14-2431 / MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS / APOLLO 8 MOON VIEW---This is a near vertical photograph / of the lunar surface taken with the telephoto lens during / the Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission. The photographed area / is approximately 20 miles on a side, and is located within / a large, unnamed 100-miles-in-diamater crater on the farside / of the moon. This large crater is located at 10 degrees south / latitude and 160 degrees east longitude.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AVIATION / APOLLO 12
Retouching: N