Title from caption on object: “They’re off the Moon and en Route Home”
December 14, 1972
Artist, American, born 1932
Artist, American, est. 1958
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 17.1 × 25.4 cm (6 3/4 × 10 in.)
sheet: 20.3 × 25.6 cm (8 × 10 1/16 in.) -
Accession
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