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This object is on display in Destination Moon at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

Destination Moon

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    Alan Bean: Artist/Astronaut

    Object Details

    Date

    1983

    Type

    ART-Paintings

    Medium

    Painting

    Artist

    Alan L. Bean

    Physical Description

    Apollo 12—Pete Conrad Unpacks Stowed Equipment
    When astronauts emerged from their lunar module, they stepped down into a strange new world with just “the clothes on their backs”—their spacesuits and lifesupport systems. Their scientific equipment was stored in fold-down compartments on the sides of the lunar module. One of the first items they unpacked and set up was the large antenna, which sent voice and television
    communication to Earth.
    Artist’s Note:
    “This painting emphasizes the size of the Lunar Module. As I looked at it on the Moon, it seemed much, much bigger than I remembered just four days previously back on the launch pad of Kennedy Space Center. It was a friendly home in a faraway world.”
    (Robert E. Sweeney was a childhood friend of Alan Bean.)

    Dimensions

    2-D - In Frame (H x W x D) (with frame): 49.5 × 85.1 × 3.2cm (1 ft. 7 1/2 in. × 2 ft. 9 1/2 in. × 1 1/4 in.)

    Inventory Number

    A20100241000

    Credit Line

    Gifted in Memory of Robert E. Sweeney

    Data Source

    National Air and Space Museum

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