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
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