347. [Apollo 14] EDGAR MITCHELL OPERATING THE LIVE COLOUR TV CAMERA ON THE LUNAR SURFACE Alan Shepard, 31 January - 9 February 1971, EVA 1 Printed 1971. Vintage chromogenic print on fibre-based Kodak paper [NASA image AS14-66-9241]. With "A Kodak Paper" watermark on the reverse, numbered "NASA AS14-66-9241" in red in the top margin (issued by NASA Manned Spacecraft Centre, Houston, Texas). 20.3 x 25.4 cm. (8 x 10 in.) Historical context Edgar Mitchell transmits to Earth the first live colour TV Images of the unknown at Fra Mauro. This frame from Alan Shepard's panoramic sequence of the landing site was taken from the 4 o'clock position relative to the LM hatch, northeast of the Lunar Module Antares. In the image, Edgar Mitchell provides a guided tour of the Fra Mauro landing site to Mission Control—part of Apollo 14's historic first full-colour TV transmission from the Moon. After Apollo 12's TV camera failure, these images gave audiences on Earth an unprecedented real-time colour view of lunar exploration. From the mission transcript when the photograph was taken: 114:48:37 Mitchell: Okay. Can you see the horizon (on the TV picture)? 114:48:39 McCandless (Mission Control): That's affirmative. The horizon is about two-thirds of the way up from the bottom of the tube. The flag is over near the left-hand corner of the field-of-view... 114:48:55 Mitchell: Okay, that's just about where I wanted it. The far horizon, Bruce, is a ridge that seems to run around this bowl that we're sitting in... Literature National Geographic, July 1871, pp. 143-145