Diptych: Apollo 10 leaving the Moon: last view from orbit and receding Moon after trans Earth injection, 18-26 May 1969

Two vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based paper, printed 1969, (NASA AS10-27-3907 and AS10-27-3948), with "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on versos, (NASA / North American Rockwell), each 25,4 x 20,3 cm, (2)

First photograph:
Topographic features, showing incredible detail, on the surface of Central Bay are accentuated by the low Sun angle and undulations occuring in an apparently smooth mare area are emphasized.
Second photograph:
Following the trans Earth injection burn over the lunar farside, the crew witnessed and photographed through the 80mm lens a fantastic view (see mission transcript) of the receding Moon from a perspective not visible from Earth.

From the mission transcript after trans Earth injection:
137:58:53 Stafford: Boy, you can’t believe this rate of climb. It looks like we’re just going out just vertically. Just beautiful. It would scare the heck out of you if you came at this angle, but maybe it was just because we came in the dark and didn’t see the thing. Over. [...]
138:02:36 Cernan: Joe, this is incredible. That thing [the Moon] is getting rounder and rounder and rounder and smaller all the time.
138:02:40 Engle (Mission Control): Rog, Gene-o. Understand.
138:02:46 Cernan: The real show is on the inside here; it’s like three monkeys in a string pod. [...]
138:04:49 Cernan: Hey, Joe, the Moon is almost small enough now where I can see the whole thing from the top, one corner of my forward window to the other corner of my forward window. [...]
138:05:32 Engle: You guys are really hauling the mail out there. [...]
138:08:33 Cernan: Hey, Joe, down at 9 miles [16.7 km] has to be exciting, but this has got to be unbelievable. The wind - the Moon now is well within the boundaries of my forward rendezvous window. [...]
138:10:21 Cernan: See what I mean about size, Joe. It just about fills up, roundwise, right smack in the hatch window. Boy, and is this a full Moon, I’ll tell you.
138:10:39 Engle: You’re just about 1,400 [nautical] miles [2,600 km] out now, Gene.