Title from caption on object: "Buzz Aldrin, Lunar Module Pilot, Becomes the Second Man to Set Foot on the Moon…"

July 20, 1969

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Associated Names
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Artist, American, est. 1958

United Press International

Publisher

This is a photograph of a lunar lander with an astronaut stepping onto the lunar surface. The image is in black and white and appears grainy. The main focus is on the astronaut, who is stepping onto the moon's surface, illuminated against the darkness of space. In the background, there are stark shadows and vertical lines that could resemble the steps of the lunar module.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • 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

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