Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA)
Event Date: 1968-12
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.238227

Inscriptions:
Credit:NASAfrom BLACK STAR#23Captions: Verso: DEC 1968 /MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS/APOLLO 8 EARTH VIEW -- This view of the rising earth greeted the Apollo 8 astronauts as they came from behind the moon / after the lunar orbit insertion burn. The unnamed surface / features in the foreground are near the eastern limb of / the noon as viewed from earth. The lunar surface probably / has less pronounced color than indicated by this print./Apollo 8 Earth View.Markings:Verso: DEC 1968 /MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS/APOLLO 8 EARTH VIEW -- This view of the rising earth greeted the Apollo 8 astronauts as they came from behind the moon / after the lunar orbit insertion burn. The unnamed surface / features in the foreground are near the eastern limb of / the noon as viewed from earth. The lunar surface probably / has less pronounced color than indicated by this print./Apollo 8 Earth View.

Tagasauris Keywords: Apollo 8; Earth; Landscape; Low angle View; Monochrome Photography; Moon; Moonlight; Night; Night sky; No Photostyle; Nobody; Nobody; Outdoors; Outer space; Science and technology; Still Life
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AVIATION / SPACE ROCKETS MISCELLANEOUS.
Retouching: N