Title from caption on object: “Checking Rocks at Camelot”

December 12, 1972

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Artist, American, est. 1958

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 15.7 × 23.1 cm (6 3/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 20.3 × 23.1 cm (8 × 9 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.654

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: (MSC2-Dec. 13)--CHECKING ROCKS AT CAMELOT--Apollo 17 [circled in blue ink] Astronaut / Harrison H. (Jack) Schmitt, right, bends down amid boulders / to check rock formations during a visit to the Camelot / Crater, Station 5 of the second EVA Tuesday night. Eugene A. / Cernan, flight commander, stands by to receive a sample to / be numbered and bagged. (AP Wirephoto from NASA television) / (dt40500efk)1972; on verso, upper left printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: historicimages.com / nosp1349; center right stamped in red ink: DEC 14 1972

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