Object Details
- 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.)
- Credit Line
- Gifted in Memory of Robert E. Sweeney.
- 1983
- Inventory Number
- A20100241000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- ART-Paintings
- Medium
- Painting
- 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.)
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- Destination Moon
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20100241000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9a2315faf-f018-4315-a1b3-508ade64ebb9
