Apollo 8 mission Nasa code AS8-14-2506

Apollo 8 mission
Nasa code AS8-14-2506
Nearly full MoonLate print.
20 x 25 cm.
Starting price: € 900
Photograph of nearly full moon taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft on 22nd December 1968. Mare Crisium, the circular, dark-colored area near the center is near the eastern edge of the moon as viewed from Earth. Mare Nectaris is the ciruclar mare near the terminator. The large, irregular maria are Tranquillitatis and highlands to the south. The large, dark-colored crater Tsiolkovsky is near the limb at the lower right. The crater Langrenus is near the center of the picture at the eastern edge of Mare Fecunditatis. (13021531) (10)