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