Frank Borman Four rare views of the never before seen farside of the Moon taken successively as the spacecraft followed its westward track over the farside of the Moon during orbit 7 and 8, Apollo 8, 21-27 December 1968 Vintage chromogenic prints on fibre-based Kodak paper, 25.3 x 20.5 cm (10 x 8 in), [NASA photos No AS8-14-2421, AS8-14-2431 (inverted), AS8-14-2432 (inverted) and AS8-14-2436], with A KODAK PAPER watermarks on versos (NASA/North American Rockwell), (4)Footnote: These photographs were taken by Frank Borman with the 250mm telephoto lens while his colleagues James Lovell and William Anders were sleeping during their scheduled rest period (orbits 7-8) over the 37-km Crater PlanteÌ (10°S latitude and 163°E longitude, unnamed at the time of the mission), over an area east of Crater Amici, (10° S / 175° W); and an area south of Chaplygin, (12° S / 152.3° E). Borman later described the Moon as a science fiction world-awesome, forlorn beauty (LIFE, 17 January 1969). North American Rockwell was NASA's prime contractor and manufacturer of the Apollo Command Module.

Lightly toned; very good