Portrait of James Irwin and the Lunar Rover, July 26-August 7, 1971
Portrait of James Irwin and the Lunar Rover in front of Mount Hadley, July 26 – August 7, 1971
Original vintage chromogenic print on fiber based paper, printed in 1971, numbered „NASA AS15-86-11603“ (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with NASA caption and „A KODAK PAPER“ watermark on verso, 20.3 x 25, 4cm.
“Vistas without parallel in human experience surrounded the crews on the great voyages of
exploration." Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt (NASA SP-250, p. 265)
At Apollo 15's desolate Moon base beneath the shadowy mass of Mt. Hadley, astronaut James Irwin tends to the ungaily but precious lunar rover, the $13 million Moon buggy that carried Irwin and Dave Scott 18 miles through the lunar highlands and made the latest space venture , in Scott's words, “exploration at its greatest.”
Literature:
LIFE, August 20, 1971, ppg. 26-27; Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs, Chaikin, pg. 120; Spacecam: Photographing the Final Frontier from Apollo to Hubble, Hope, pg. 29.
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