Unidentified Photographer

Description:

Unidentified Photographer
Portrait of the crew, Apollo 12, November 1969. Stamped "D4C 70805" on the verso u.r., McDonnell stamp on the verso u.l. Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper with "A Kodak Paper" watermark on the verso, image size 10 1/2 x 8 1/8 in. (26.5 x 20.5 cm),unmatted.
Condition: Minor wear at u.l. corner of sheet.

N.B. From left to right: Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, and Alan Bean. 'Our second journey to the Moon,' wrote NASA administrator Thomas Paine, 'opened the new age of extraterrestrial scientific exploration by man. Going beyond Apollo 11, which demonstrated to an eager world that astronauts can set foot on a celestial body and return safely to Earth, Apollo 12 concentrated on a systematic scientific sampling designed to help unlock some secrets of the solar system's origin and early history' (NASA SP-242).
Estimate $200-400


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