Unknown American
Mission: Space Shuttle 41-B, Challenger: Bruce McCandless making the first untethered space walk with the manned maneuvering unit (M. M. U.)

Mission: Space Shuttle 41-B, Challenger: Bruce McCandless making the first untethered space walk with the manned maneuvering unit (M. M. U.)

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Artist Unknown American

Printer Dennis Ivy American, born 1953

CultureAmerican

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Mission: Space Shuttle 41-B, Challenger: Bruce McCandless making the first untethered space walk with the manned maneuvering unit (M. M. U.)
from the portfolio NASA: A Quarter Century of Space Exploration

DateFebruary 3–11, 1984, printed 1991

PlaceHouston, Texas, United States

MediumDye imbibition print

Dimensionsimage: 19 3/16 × 17 15/16 inches (48.7 × 45.6 cm)
sheet: 22 × 22 inches (55.9 × 55.9 cm)

Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores

Object number93.199.23

Not on view

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Photography

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Target Collection of American Photography

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PHOTOGRAPHS

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: "20/250"; stamped in black ink with pencil inscriptions [ ] on verso, lower left corner: "THIS DYE-TRANSFER IS THE [20]. PRINT/ FROM AN EDITION OF [250]. IT WAS MADE/ IN HOUSTON, TEXAS BY DENNIS IVY. [S005]"

Signed in pencil on verso, lower left corner: "Dennis Ivy"

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