[Apollo 15] Astronaut memorial to photography: a photograph and other “souvenirs” left on the lunar surface. James Irwin 26 July - 7 August 1971, EVA 3. Printed 1971. Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper [NASA image AS15–88-11870]. 20.3×25.4 cm (8×10 in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS15–88-11870” in red in top margin (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas). The photograph left on the lunar surface is the object at the lower left. A close look at it shows the B&W portrait of an elderly man, balding, with shirt and tie. In his book To Rule the Night, Irwin wrote “There were a number of things we left on the Moon purposely. I left some medallions, flat pieces of silver with the fingerprints of Mary and our children. And as a result of a letter that I got two months before launch, I also left a small portrait of J. B. Irwin. A young lady sent me a picture of her father, J. B. Irwin, saying that he had talked about his desire to go to the Moon all his life. He died at seventy-five, before the first manned landing. I thought it would be a gracious gesture to take J. B.’s picture and leave it on the Moon.”
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[Apollo 15] Astronaut memorial to photography: a photograph and other “souvenirs” left on the lunar surface. James Irwin 26 July - 7 August 1971, EVA 3. Printed 1971. Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper [NASA image AS15–88-11870]. 20.3×25.4 cm (8×10 in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS15–88-11870” in red in top margin (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas). The photograph left on the lunar surface is the object at the lower left. A close look at it shows the B&W portrait of an elderly man, balding, with shirt and tie. In his book To Rule the Night, Irwin wrote “There were a number of things we left on the Moon purposely. I left some medallions, flat pieces of silver with the fingerprints of Mary and our children. And as a result of a letter that I got two months before launch, I also left a small portrait of J. B. Irwin. A young lady sent me a picture of her father, J. B. Irwin, saying that he had talked about his desire to go to the Moon all his life. He died at seventy-five, before the first manned landing. I thought it would be a gracious gesture to take J. B.’s picture and leave it on the Moon.”
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