Charles M. Duke, Jr.
Mission: Apollo-Saturn 16, April 16–27, 1972

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Artist Charles M. Duke, Jr. (American, born 1935)American, born 1935

Printer Dennis Ivy (American, born 1953)American, born 1953

CultureAmerican

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Mission: Apollo-Saturn 16, April 16–27, 1972
This was the second of three missions to use the lunar rover on the Moon’s surface. Crew members John W. Young and Charles M. Duke, Jr., also took an ultraviolet camera to the surface to photograph the Earth and the solar system unencumbered by the “masking” effect of the Earth’s atmosphere. This photograph shows a snapshot of the Duke family left on the lunar surface by Charles Duke.
from the portfolio NASA: A Quarter Century of Space Exploration

DateApril 16–27, 1972, printed 1991

Place depictedMoon

MediumDye imbibition print

DimensionsImage: 16 1/4 × 16 1/16 in. (41.2 × 40.8 cm)
Sheet: 19 3/16 × 17 7/8 in. (48.8 × 45.4 cm)
Mat: 23 15/16 × 20 in. (60.8 × 50.8 cm)

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

Object number93.199.16

Not on view

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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 History"Families," Shell and the American Landscape Museum, Houston, September 10–October 31, 2000.

"Quest for the Moon and Other Stories: Four Decades of Astronauts in Space," Shell and the American Landscape Museum, Houston, March 6–May 29, 2001.

"Shooting the Moon: Photographs from the Museum's Collection 50 Years after Apollo 11," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 20–September 2, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscription: Inscribed in black ink, lower left corner below image: "29/1000", lower right corner below image: "# 16"

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