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James Lovell Jack Swigert or Fred Haise Five views of the lunar surface taken from the passing Apollo 13 spacecraft during the homeward journey, comprising: 1) Oblique view of the lunar far side photographed from the Apollo 13 spacecraft as it passed around the Moon on its hazardous journey homeward (AS13-62-8918) 2) Oblique view of the International Astronomical Union Crater No. 30220 (AS13-60-8635) 3) Underexposed view southwest across craters Peripelkin and Danjon (AS13-60-8621) 4) Underexposed view southwest towards lunar horizon. The out-of-focus object lower centre is either a reflection from the cabin window of an internal light or an object near the camera (AS13-60-8622) 5) Tsiolkovsky crater as seen from the Apollo 13 spacecraft (AS13-60-8659) Five vintage chromogenic prints on Kodak fibre-based paper, 25.3 x 20.5 cm (10 x 8 in), all RED NUMBERED in upper margins, with A KODAK PAPER watermark on verso, one with NASA caption on the verso Footnotes: When the oxygen tank blew, ground control had to devise a plan to return the Apollo 13 astronauts back to Earth safely. To have a shot at doing it, they devised a trajectory around the far side of the Moon. The unplanned journey was strenuous, but it also gave the astronauts a stunning view of the far side of the moon and its rocky terrain. For eight minutes the Apollo 13 crew were in the pitch black, the time between Earth-set and sunrise. And then, out of the inky depths of space, the lunar terrain begun to slowly emerge as sunlight illuminated the deep craters and rocks. Despite the hardships they endured the astronauts managed to bring back to Earth some of the best photographs of the lunar far side.