Title from caption on object: "Fifty Seconds Before Impact”, March 24, 1965

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 14.7 × 20.5 cm (5 13/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

sheet: 16.7 × 21.7 cm (6 9/16 × 8 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.21.27

Artists / Makers

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (artist) American, est. 1958

National Broadcasting Company (publisher) American, founded 1929

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

vertical along left edge printed in image: (NY10- MARCH 24) -- FIFTY SECONDS BEFORE IMPACT-- This is how the moon looked / as photographed by camera in Ranger 9--50 seconds and 90 miles before impact. Photo was taken from NBC television screen in New York studio. / (APWirephoto) (See Wire Story) (gfr41000stf) 1965.; on verso, center left stamped in blue ink: RSD 71587; center left stamped in red ink perpendicular: ES 1016-- 056

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary