Apollo 15 moon photograph

NASA, artist

Apollo 15 moon photograph, 1971

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: gelatin silver print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 12.7 x 120 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 12.7 x 120 cm
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 10 3/8 x 50 3/4 in

Credit line: Anonymous gift in honor of Frank Eber Goddard Jr.

Accession number: 1999.0346

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Exhibition Label:
"1 December, 1999 Curatorial Meeting Show," Dec-1999, and "12/1/99: Art at the End of the Millenium," Jun-2000, Stephen Godddard and others
From childhood on my father's first and greatest love was flight. His pursuit of aeronautical engineering ultimately led him to a position in research and advanced development in the space program. As a child I remember him coming to tears as we watched the televised coverage (in black and white) of the remarkable string of early successes in the U.S. space program. He would often come home from his job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with assorted artifacts of the space program, including these photographs of the lunar surface made during the Apollo missions. I think they beautifully summarize human aspiration and I decided I should offer them to the museum as gift in my father's honor.