Title from caption on object: "Moon Man James Irwin Climbs Down Ladder...”

July 31, 1971

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Associated Names
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Artist, American, est. 1958

United Press International

Publisher

This is a photograph of an astronaut descending a ladder to the lunar surface. The image is in black and white and features a grainy captured moment, as an astronaut wearing a spacesuit appears blurry in mid-action. The photo is taken from a screen or possibly a television broadcast, as indicated by the curved edges and the numbers "9:36" visible along the left. Above, there is a text strip providing a brief description of the event.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.6 × 27.3 cm (7 11/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 21.8 × 27.9 cm (8 9/16 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.21.30

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

across top printed in image: NXP1711847-7/31/71- NEW YORK: Moon man James Irwin climbs down ladder to the surface of / the moon 7/31. He followed Apollo 15 commander David Scott. U CBS NEWS PHOTO VIA UPI ld; on verso, center left printed in black ink on applied label perpendicular: tbe691; by unknown hand, center in blue crayon: Space Flights [circled] / Apollo 15 [underlined] / Moon Walk [underlined]; lower left stamped in purple ink perpendicular: AUG12 1971

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