Title from caption on object: “This Is the First Crude Picture Obtained from Explorer VI Earth Satellite...”
August 14, 1959
Artist, American, est. 1958
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 18.3 × 12.3 cm (7 3/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
sheet: 25.3 × 20.6 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.531
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, top center in graphite perpendicular: A89729; top right printed in black ink on applied barcode label: n e z 0 1 3 9 0 / www.historicimages.com; center left printed in black ink on applied paper perpendicular: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION / WASHINGTON, D.C. / FOR RELEASE / 10 A.M., August 28, 1959 / This is the first crude picture obtained from Explorer VI [underlined in graphite] earth / satellite launched August 7, 1959. It shows a sun-lighted area of the / Central Pacific Ocean and its cloud cover. The picture was made when / the satellite was about 17,000 miles above the surface of the earth on / August 14. At the time, the satellite was crossing Mexico. The signals / were received at the South Point, Hawaii, tracking station.; lower center stamped in purple ink: REFERENCE OCT 1959 / N. E. A.