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[Apollo 12] HUMANITY'S SECOND DEPARTURE TO THE LUNAR SURFACE FROM KENNEDY SPACE CENTRE NASA, 14 November 1969
14 – 28 April 2025, 12:00 CEST
Paris, Avenue Hoche€300 - €500
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[Apollo 12] HUMANITY'S SECOND DEPARTURE TO THE LUNAR SURFACE FROM KENNEDY SPACE CENTRE
NASA, 14 November 1969
Printed 1969.
Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper [NASA image 69-H-1833].
With NASA caption numbered "69-H-1833" on the reverse (issued by NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C.).
20.3 x 25.4 cm. (8 x 10 in.).
Historical context
This historic Apollo 12 photograph captures the three crew members—Commander Pete Conrad, Command Module Pilot Richard Gordon, and Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean—departing the Kennedy Space Centre's Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (MSOB) during the final prelaunch countdown. Suited up in their pressure garments, they are seen making their way to the special transport van that would take them to Launch Complex 39A, where their Saturn V rocket stood ready to propel them toward the Moon.
This image encapsulates the anticipation and solemnity of human spaceflight—men leaving the comfort of their world for the unknown, carrying the hopes and ambitions of humanity into the vast expanse of space, under the watchful eyes of the public and media.
Printed 1969.
Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper [NASA image 69-H-1833].
With NASA caption numbered "69-H-1833" on the reverse (issued by NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C.).
20.3 x 25.4 cm. (8 x 10 in.).
Historical context
This historic Apollo 12 photograph captures the three crew members—Commander Pete Conrad, Command Module Pilot Richard Gordon, and Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean—departing the Kennedy Space Centre's Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (MSOB) during the final prelaunch countdown. Suited up in their pressure garments, they are seen making their way to the special transport van that would take them to Launch Complex 39A, where their Saturn V rocket stood ready to propel them toward the Moon.
This image encapsulates the anticipation and solemnity of human spaceflight—men leaving the comfort of their world for the unknown, carrying the hopes and ambitions of humanity into the vast expanse of space, under the watchful eyes of the public and media.
Footnotes
"Our second journey to the Moon opened the new age of extraterrestrial scientific exploration by man. Going beyond Apollo 11, which demonstrated to an eager world that astronauts can set foot on a celestial body and return safely to Earth, Apollo 12 concentrated on a systematic scientific sampling designed to help unlock some secrets of the solar system's origin and early history."
NASA administrator Thomas Paine (NASA SP-235).