Title from caption on object: “They’re off the Moon and en Route Home”

December 14, 1972

Ed Fendell, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Associated Names
Ed Fendell

Artist, American, born 1932

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Artist, American, est. 1958

Associated Press

Publisher

This is a photograph of a lunar surface with spacecraft equipment. The image shows a lunar landscape with a clear demarcation of the curved white horizon in the background and a large, dark expanse above it. In the foreground, a structure resembling a lunar landing module can be seen, appearing lighter against the shadowed surface of the moon. Above the horizon, there is a bright object that appears to be hovering. The overall image is grainy and slightly distorted.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.1 × 25.4 cm (6 3/4 × 10 in.)
    sheet: 20.3 × 25.6 cm (8 × 10 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.653

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

vertical along left edge printed in image: (CBS5-Dec. 14)THEY’RE OFF THE MOON AND EN ROUTE HOME-The lunar ship / Challenger, with astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt aboard, lifts / off from the moon surface Thursday en route to a rendezvous with the / Apollo 17 command module America and the long voyage home. (AP Wire- / [cut off] (d57900cbs) 1972; on verso, upper left printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: historicimages.com / nosp03415; center stamped in red ink: DEC 15 1972

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