Title from caption on object: “Gemini VI/VII Rendezvous Photography”
December 15, 1965
Artist
Artist, American, est. 1958

Artwork overview
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Medium
chromogenic print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 18.5 × 19.7 cm (7 5/16 × 7 3/4 in.)
sheet: 20.3 × 25.3 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.548
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Rhys M. Yeakley, Wilder, ID; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
upper left printed in red ink: NASA / S-65-63177; on verso, center left NASA copyright printed in purple ink perpendicular; center printed in purple ink perpendicular: COLOR / 15 DEC 65 S-65-63177 / GEMINI VI/VII RENDEZVOUS PHOTOGRAPH -- The Gemini VII / spacecraft is pictured against the clouds and sea / of the earth below in this overhead photograph taken / from the Gemini VI spacecraft. The two National / Aeronautics and Space Administration spacecrafts were / approximately 44 ft. apart when this picture was made. / This photograph was taken with a modified 70mm Hassel- / blad camera, using Eastman Kodak, Ektachrome MS (S. 0. / 217) color film. In the Gemini VII spacecraft were / Astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell Jr. As- / tronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford / were aboard the Gemini VI spacecraft.; center right: [NASA logo] MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER / OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH