The first manned spacecraft leaving Planet Earth: expended S-IVB rocket stage jettisoned in deep space, 21-27 December 1968

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed 1968, (NASA AS8-16-2584), with "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 20,3 x 25,4 cm

From the mission transcript when the photograph was taken:
003:21:46 Borman: Man, where’s the S-IVB? Anybody see it, now?
003:21:49 Lovell: There it is!
003:21:50 Borman: You found it?
003:21:51 Lovell: Right in the middle. Right in the middle of my window. There’s not a panel around.
003:21:55 Borman: What a view!
003:21:58 Collins (Mission Control): Looks pretty good, huh?
003:21:58 Lovell: Give me the camera.
003:21:59 Anders: Well, we’ve got some still pictures we can take...
003:22:01 Lovell: Could you pitch a little more?
003:22:02 Borman: Yes.
003:22:03 Anders: We haven’t got in here, yet.
003:22:08 Anders: f/11, 1/250th.
003:22:10 Lovell: f/11.
003:22:12 Anders: We’ve Sep’d Houston. We got the IVB, right in sight.
003:22:16 Collins: Roger, Apollo 8. [Long pause.]
003:22:19 Anders: Could you pitch just a little more or [garble].
003:22:21 Borman: Which way?
003:22:22 Anders: Pitch up, pitch up a little more.
003:22:27 Borman: How’s that?
003:22:33 Lovell: I don’t see the [garble]. Maybe I can get it in a minute.
003:22:46 Lovell: Easy on the thrusters.
003:22:48 Anders: Don’t you think that’s enough pictures of it?

Literature:
LIFE, 10 January 1969, pp. 24-25.