Apollo 15 Vintage NASA "Red Number" Color Photo, Image AS15- 87-11696: Print of The Command Service Module (CSM) is photographed through the Lunar Module (LM) window during station keeping and just before powered descent initiation. The eastern edge of the Sea of Serenity (Mare Serenitatis), south of the crater Le Monnler, is below the spacecraft; north is to the right. View was taken during Revolution 12 of the Lunar Module (LM) of the Apollo 15 mission. Original film magazine was labeled KK, film type was S0168 (High Speed Color Exterior or Color Interior Ektachrome EF - High speed color reversal), 60mm lens with a sun elevation of 34 degrees. Approximate altitude was 15 km, Principal point latitude was 24.0N by 29.5E and the Camera tilt was 15 degrees with an azimuth of 274 degrees.

A vintage chromogenic 10" x 8" print on Kodak fiber-based paper bearing the "Paper Manufactured by Kodak" watermark on the verso.

“This paper manufactured by Kodak” paper was used from the early 1970s though the late 1990s.

“This paper manufactured by Kodak” watermark faint. It is repeated diagonally across the paper.

Numbered NASA Photo AS15- 87-11696 from late Dick Underwood collection.

The photo has overall even toning on verso and the fades to red, which is very common with the photos from this period, a factor due in great part to the humidity and heat in Houston.

Richard “Dick” Underwood (1927-2011) was chief engineer on the production of the first topographic maps of the moon. He was the first person to view every photograph from the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and the first 23 space shuttle missions.

He also provided technical training to every astronaut who went in to space in the 20^th century.