Michael Collins
Mission: Apollo-Saturn 11: Lunar module, Eagle, returns to command/service module, Columbia, after the first lunar landing.

Mission: Apollo-Saturn 11: Lunar module, Eagle, returns to command/service module, Columbia, after the first lunar landing.

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Mission: Apollo-Saturn 11: Lunar module, Eagle, returns to command/service module, Columbia, after the first lunar landing.
ArtistAmerican, 1930–2021
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Mission: Apollo-Saturn 11: Lunar module, Eagle, returns to command/service module, Columbia, after the first lunar landing.
  • from the portfolio NASA: A Quarter Century of Space Exploration
DateJuly 16–24, 1969, printed 1991
Place depictedUnited States, Moon
MediumDye imbibition print
DimensionsImage: 16 × 16 inches (40.6 × 40.6 cm)
 Mat: 20 × 20 inches (50.8 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number93.199.11
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
Provenance[Robert Mann Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1993.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in "Quest for the Moon and Other Stories: Four Decades of Astronauts in Space," at the Shell and the American Landscape Museum, Houston, TX, March 6, 2001 to May 29, 2001 (LN:2001.23).
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: Inscribed in black ink, lower left corner below image: "29/1000", lower right corner below image: "# 11"

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