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[Astronaut, Lunar Surface]

Date

August 1, 1971

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Culture

American

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

Photographs made on the Apollo lunar missions provided views to a landscape that previously could only be imagined. Like the United States government's surveys of the West in the 1800s, space explorations--and the pictures that resulted--served a combination of scientific and political ends. Here NASA pilot James Irwin used a specially outfitted, chest-mounted camera to photograph his Apollo 15 mission commander, David Scott, performing an experiment.

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