The arrival over the Moon of the spacecraft in distress, 11-17 April 1970

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed 1970, numbered "NASA AS13-62-8918" (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with Nasa caption and "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 25,4 x 20,3 cm

Following the free-return trajectory, the altitude of Apollo 13 over the lunar farside was approximately 100 km (54 nautical miles) greater than the orbital altitude on the remaining Apollo lunar missions, resulting in particularly striking photographs of the lunar farside.

“As we approached the Moon, the ground informed us that we would have to use the LM descent engine a second time; this time a long 5-minute burn to speed up our return home.
The maneuver was to take place two hours after rounding the far side of the Moon, and I was busy running down the procedures we were to use. Suddenly, I noticed that Swigert and Haise had their cameras out and were busy photographing the lunar surface. I looked at them incredulously and said, ‘If we don’t make this next maneuver correctly, you won’t get your pictures developed!’ They said, ‘Well, you’ve been here before and we haven’t.’
James Lovell (NASA SP-350, p. 13.4)

“It’s a strange place. It’s a big, beat-up rock. Not anything like on Earth, I’ll tell you that...
There’s nothing there. It’s a rock with a lot of holes in it.”
Fred Haise (Chaikin, Voices, p. 146)