Title from caption on object: "Moon's Backside Photographed”

August 1966

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Artist, American, est. 1958

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 22.4 × 17 cm (8 13/16 × 6 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.21.38

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

top center printed in negative: (TOP); on verso, upper right printed in black ink on applied barcode label: historicimages.com / spa9125; by unknown hand, center in blue ink: Px; center stamped in red ink: CHRONICLE / AUG 22 1966; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: [reproduction of image] / Moon's [circled in black ink] Backside Photographed / This is the first U.S. photograph of the moon by a high-resolution camera, taken / by the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft yesterday and radioed to the Goldstone, Calif., / tracking station. It shows an area of approximately 75 miles by 100 miles. The / sun was on the left at an elevation of 20 degrees. (AP wirephoto.) (Story, P. 14); by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite partially below applied newspaper: [illegible] / backside

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