Apollo 11 LM on Moon

July 20, 1969

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Artist, American, est. 1958

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chromogenic print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.2 × 17.8 cm (7 3/16 × 7 in.)
    sheet: 20.3 × 25.3 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.31

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Houston, TX. (sale, Heritage Auctions, Dallas); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

upper left printed in red ink: NASA / AS11-37-5545; on verso, upper center printed in purple ink: [NASA logo] NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION / HOUSTON, TEXAS 77058 / FOR RELEASE: / PHOTO NO. AS11-37-5545; upper center NASA copyright stamp in purple ink; center printed in purple ink: COLOR / 20 JULY 1969 / AS11-37-5545 / MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS / APOLLO 11 LM ON MOON-----The flag of the United States, deployed / on the surface of the Moon, dominates this photograph taken from / inside the LM. The footprints of Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong / and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. stand out very clearly. In the far back- / ground is the deployed black and white lunar surface television / camera which televised the Apollo 11 lunar extravehicular ac- / tivity.

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