Title from caption on object: "Apollo 11 Astronaut Edwin Aldrin Spins a Can of Ham for Televiewers"
July 23, 1969
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 17.7 × 22 cm (6 15/16 × 8 11/16 in.) sheet: 19 × 22.6 cm (7 1/2 × 8 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2018.21.11
About the Artist
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), established by the United States government in 1958, has generated one of the most consequential bodies of photographic imagery in human history — images that have shaped scientific understanding, political culture, and visual art alike. From the earliest Mercury and Gemini missions through the Apollo lunar landings, the Space Shuttle era, ...