Title from caption on object: "Armstrong on Moon”

July 20, 1969

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Associated Names
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Artist, American, est. 1958

Associated Press

Publisher

This is a photograph of an astronaut descending a ladder onto the lunar surface.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 26.4 × 19.1 cm (10 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 27.8 × 20.3 cm (10 15/16 × 8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.21.25

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

by unknown hand, top center in blue ink: 4x5 1/2; across bottom printed in image: (MSC46) SPACE CENTER, HOUSTON, Tex. July 20-- ARMSTRONG ON MOON-- This / waist up shot shows Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong at the foot of / the lunar module as he set foot on the moon. (AP Wirephoto) (dt12330); on verso, by unknown hand, center right in blue ink perpendicular: 7/69 / MOON LANDING; lower center in red ink: 4- [in graphite] 5 1/2; lower right in blue ink perpendicular: Space Walk

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