Ken Mattingly (American, b. 1936)

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Ken Mattingly (American, b. 1936)
Planet Earth, Apollo 16, April 1972. Large-format vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper with 'A Kodak Paper' watermark on the verso, image/sheet size 13 7/8 x 11 in. (35.0 x 27.7 cm),unmatted.
Condition: Subtle color shifting, minor wear at corners, blue ballpoint pen mark u.l.

N.B. The twenty-four Apollo astronauts from Apollo 8 in December 1968 to Apollo 17 in December 1972 were the only men in history to see the Earth as a sphere hanging in space. "To stand back and look at the entirety of North America is not something you can take for granted. Yet, here's a picture to show you that it was done. It wasn't taken by a black box or a camera we sent out in a satellite into space. It was done by this guy right here who thinks and acts, puts on his pants one leg at a time just like you. How did it feel for that guy to be there, to take the picture? That's another thing. The pictures alone don't do the whole job--they don't properly record the emotional or the spiritual part of the history that took place--but they sure do carry their share of the load,' said Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan (Schick and Van Haaften, p. 60). The NASA negative number is AS16-118-18880.

Literature: Light, plate 117; Chaikin, Voices, p. 170.
Estimate $2,500-3,500


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