Title from caption on object: "This Was the Celebration Scene in Mission Control...”

July 24, 1969

William Paul Taub, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Associated Names
William Paul Taub

Artist, American, 1923 - 2010

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Artist, American, est. 1958

This is a photograph of a room with people waving American flags, likely celebrating an event related to the Apollo 11 mission. The photograph captures a scene in a control room or operations center. There are many small American flags being waved, and multiple screens are visible at the front of the room displaying imagery and text. One of the screens shows an image related to the Apollo 11 mission. The room is filled with an atmosphere of celebration and national pride.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 17.4 × 24.3 cm (6 7/8 × 9 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.21.21

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Historic Images, Memphis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper right in blue ink: 124 / 84 / [horizontal line] / 2[0]8; upper right printed in black ink on applied barcode label: historicimages.com / spx21146; by unknown hand, center in blue ink circled: 4; center stamped in red ink: Spokesman-Review / JUL 25 1969; across bottom printed in black ink on applied newspaper: THIS WAS the celebration scene in Mission Control, Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, after Apollo 11 made flawless splashdown.; bottom left stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: Spokesman-Review / JUL 25 1969; bottom right stamped in blue ink: REVIEW PICTURE/PAGE [FOR FRI]; by unknown hand, bottom right in red pencil: [illegible]

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