Moon Shot

Lowell Nesbitt

1969

Artist Lowell Nesbitt (American, 1933–1993)
Title Moon Shot
Date 1969
Medium Lithograph on black paper
Edition description 82/98
Dimensions unframed | 29 7/8 x 22 in.
Credit line Gift of Reese Palley and Marilyn Arnold Palley, 1991
Object number WU 1991.25.5 a

Technique lithography
Work type print

1991
Reese and Marilyn Arnold Palley

Inscription Each sheet, LR in graphite: "L. Nesbitt - '69" Inscriptions: Each sheet LL in graphite: "82/98"

Inscription Textual component: “The Moon is set against the blackest black you ever saw.” — STAFFORD // “The vast loneliness up here is awe-inspiring, and it makes you / realize just what you have back there on Earth. The Earth from here / is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.” — LOVELL // “The color of the Moon looks like a very whitish gray, like dirty beach / sand with lots of footprints in it. Some of these craters look like / pick axes striking concrete, creating a lot of fine haze dust.” — ANDERS // “A beautiful Moon out there tonight.” “Now, we were just saying that / there’s a beautiful Earth out there.” — Borman // ‶Waters are sort of royal blue, clouds of course are bright white, / the reflection of the Earth is much greater than the Moon. The land areras / are generally a brownish, sort of dark brownish to light brown in texture”. / LOVELL // “Boy, oh boy, what a view!” — SCHWEICKART // “THE EAGLE HAS LANDED.” — ARMSTRONG JULY 20 1969 // “We’ll get to the details around here, but it looks like a collection of just / about every variety of shapes, angularities and granularities, every variety of / rock you could find. The coolors vary pretty much depending on how you / are looking ... There doesn’t appear to be much of a general color at all; however, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders, / of which there are quite a few in the near area ... are going to have / some interesting colors in them.” — ALDRIN // “What I keep imagining is if I am some lonely traveler from another / planet. What would I think about the Earth at this altitude? Whether / I think it would be inhabited or not.” — LOVELL // “The view of the Moon that we’ve been having recently is really / spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window and, of / course, we can see the entire circumference, even though part of it is / in complete shadow and part of it’s in earth-shine. It’s a view worth / the price of the trip.” — ARMSTRONG // “We’re getting the first view of the landing approach. This time we are / going over the Tarumtuis [?] crater and the pictures and maps brought back / by Apollo 8 and 10 give us a very good preview of what to look at here / It looks very much like the pictures, but like the difference between / watching a real football game and watching it on TV – no substitute / for actually being here.” — ARMSTRONG // “It gets to be a lighter gray, and as you get closer to the subsolar point, you can definately see browns and tans on the ground.” // “When a star sets up here, there’s no doubt about it. One instant it’s there / and the next instant it’s just completely gone.” — ARMSTRONG

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