Apollo 11 Planting Flag on Moon

July 20, 1969

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: 18.5 × 24.6 cm (7 5/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.4 × 25.6 cm (8 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.42

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

top left printed in black ink: NASA / S-69-40308; on verso, top center stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: WE SEP-1-1993; top center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: AP file photo / Apollo mission: First astronauts on moon in 1969.; center left stamped in purple ink perpendicular: FILED JAN 20 1970; by unknown hand, center in black ink: Space - U.S. - (Apollo 11 [in graphite]) / planting flag on moon [in graphite]; lower right printed in black ink on applied pink sticker: RETURN / TO / LIBRARY

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