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Earth seen from Apollo 12 on the way back home from the Moon in 1969
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The crew took this photograph with the 80mm lens as they were still more than 30,000 nautical miles away from home.
“Our landing was very westerly on the Moon, which means the Earth was getting smaller. On our way back we saw a lot of crescent Earths. No matter how hard you looked you could not see in that dark part, even if you put glasses up to your eyes. It was a funny feeling; you knew the Earth was there, but you never could see anything but the crescent,” remembered Alan Bean (Schick and Van Haaften, p.104).
From the mission transcript as the crew woke up on the final day before landing:
208:04:50 Conrad: We - Houston, we just got our first glimpse of you this morning, and there’s not very much of you out there.
Earth seen from Apollo 12 on the way back home from the Moon in 1969
tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/Apollo/12/Hasselblad%20500E...
The crew took this photograph with the 80mm lens as they were still more than 30,000 nautical miles away from home.
“Our landing was very westerly on the Moon, which means the Earth was getting smaller. On our way back we saw a lot of crescent Earths. No matter how hard you looked you could not see in that dark part, even if you put glasses up to your eyes. It was a funny feeling; you knew the Earth was there, but you never could see anything but the crescent,” remembered Alan Bean (Schick and Van Haaften, p.104).
From the mission transcript as the crew woke up on the final day before landing:
208:04:50 Conrad: We - Houston, we just got our first glimpse of you this morning, and there’s not very much of you out there.