147. [Apollo 7] RARE VIEWS OF EARTH'S HORIZON FROM THE FIRST MANNED APOLLO SPACECRAFT Walter Cunningham, Walter Cunningham or Walter Schirra, 11-22 October 1968 Printed 1968. Two vintage chromogenic prints on fibre-based Kodak paper [NASA image AS7-6-1715 and AS7-7-1752]. With "A Kodak Paper" watermark on the reverses, numbered "NASA AS7-6-1715" and "NASA AS7-7-1752" in red in the top margins (issued by NASA Manned Spacecraft Centre, Houston, Texas). Each: 20.3 x 25.4 cm. (8 x 10 in.) Historical context Two gorgeous and very rare photographs taken with the NASA-modified Hasselblad 500-C and film magazines 6/O and 7/S. The first showcases the west coast of Africa and the Canary Islands, the second the coast of China near Shanghai and the Yangtze River from an altitude of about 120 nautical miles. "It's very difficult to do good photography from space... You have only 45 minutes of daylight, and the first and last portions are not all that useful for colour matching. Because the spacecraft is drifting, you're waiting there for the middle of a 45-minute period with one of the windows pointed close to the vertical instead of being pointed out into space." Walter Cunningham (Schick and Van Haaften, p. 84)