The Beauty of Space: Vintage NASA Photos
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Alan Bean (American, b. 1932)
Wide-angle view of Surveyor Crater with the robot spacecraft and the Lunar Module, EVA 2, Apollo 12, November 1969. Numbered 'NASA AS12-48-7090' (NASA MSC) in black on the recto u.l. margin, NASA MSC caption on the verso. Vintage gelatin silver print, image size 7 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. (18.0 x 18.0 cm),unmatted.
Condition: Minor wear to u.r. corner of sheet.
N.B. "We finally reached the Surveyor Crater. I was surprised by its size and its hard surface,' recalled Pete Conrad. 'We could have landed right there, I believe now, but it would have been a scary thing at the time. The Surveyor was covered with a coating of fine dust, and it looked tan or even brown in the lunar light, instead of the glistening white that it was when it left Earth more than two years earlier. It was decided later that the dust was kicked up by our descent onto the surface, even though we were 600 feet away" (NASA SP-350, chapter 12.3).
Estimate $300-500
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