Title from caption on object: "Apollo 8 Moon View"
December 1968
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 22.8 × 18.9 cm (9 × 7 7/16 in.) sheet: 25.6 × 21.1 cm (10 1/16 × 8 5/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2018.21.19
Art Historical Context
Captured during NASA's historic Apollo 8 mission in December1968, *Apollo 8 Moon View offers a stunning gelatin silver print of the lunar surface as seen from the first manned spacecraft to orbit the. Astronauts Frank Borman, Lovell, and William Anders achieved this milestone, becoming the first humans to witness Earth rising over the Moon's stark horizon—a perspective that forever changed our understanding of our fragile home planet. Printed shortly after the mission, this 22.8 × 18.9 cm image (on a 25.6 × 21.1 cm sheet) captures the mission's raw documentation, now preserved in the National ...
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, ...