Category: Craig Kavafes
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S69-38662
S69-38662 (July 1969) — A Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation’s artist concept depicting mankind’s first walk on another celestial body. Here astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, is making his first step onto the surface of the Moon. Armstrong has just egressed Lunar Module (LM) 5. Still inside the LM is astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. Astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remains with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit. In the background is the Earth, some 240,000 miles away.
Image credit: NASA Johnson
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Collecting Lunar Samples
From Drew Granston‘s collection: a beautiful early rendering of Grumman’s LM by Craig Kavafes.
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Drew Granston
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Design 619
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Image source: Numbers Station
Deployment of LRV
Grumman Art Department
Image credit: NASA
Image source: Numbers Station
