Title from caption on object: “They’re off the Moon and en Route Home”, December 14, 1972

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 17.1 × 25.4 cm (6 3/4 × 10 in.)

sheet: 20.3 × 25.6 cm (8 × 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.653

Artists / Makers

Ed Fendell (artist) American, born 1932

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

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary