Title from caption on object: “They’re off the Moon and en Route Home”

December 14, 1972

Ed Fendell

Artist, American, born 1932

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Artist, American, est. 1958

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.1 × 25.4 cm (6 3/4 × 10 in.)
    sheet: 20.3 × 25.6 cm (8 × 10 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.653


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

vertical along left edge printed in image: (CBS5-Dec. 14)THEY’RE OFF THE MOON AND EN ROUTE HOME-The lunar ship / Challenger, with astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt aboard, lifts / off from the moon surface Thursday en route to a rendezvous with the / Apollo 17 command module America and the long voyage home. (AP Wire- / [cut off] (d57900cbs) 1972; on verso, upper left printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: historicimages.com / nosp03415; center stamped in red ink: DEC 15 1972


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