Title from caption on object: "Buzz Aldrin, Lunar Module Pilot, Becomes the Second Man to Set Foot on the Moon…"
July 20, 1969
Artist, American, est. 1958
Publisher
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Attributed to

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 16.2 × 21.7 cm (6 3/8 × 8 9/16 in.)
sheet: 17.8 × 23.1 cm (7 × 9 1/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2017.96.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Gary Edwards Gallery, Southampton, NY); NGA purchase, 2017.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
crop marks upper left and upper right in grease pencil; across top printed in image: LXP072026-7/20/69- [illegible] Aldrin, Lunar Module Pilot, becomes the second / man to set foot on the moon [illegible] his way on the last rung of the LM’s ladder / and joins the Apollo- [illegible] Neil Armstrong on the moon’s surface. UPI TELEPHOTO- [illegible]; on verso, upper left stamped in red ink: JUL 21 1969; upper center printed in black ink on applied barcode label: BCD-221-CA; by unknown hand, upper center in red ink circled: [illegible]; center left in graphite perpendicular: 10-910 / B; center in graphite perpendicular and circled: 5"; center in graphite inverted: 2 col / Atz[?]; center right in red ink: 845 / 166 / 12 / [line] / 154