Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA)
Event Date: 1969-07-24
Medium: COLOR
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.237278

Inscriptions:
Recto, typed: NASA / S-69-40138; Verso, stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR; stamped: NASA NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION / HOUSTON, TEXAS 77058 / FOR RELEASE: / PHOTO NO. / S-69-40138 [typed number] / THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS A GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION – NOT SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT. / It may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NASA or by any NASA employee / of a commercial product, process, or service, or used in any other manner that might mis- / lead. Accordingly, it is requested that if this photograph is used in advertising, posters, / books, etc., layout and copy be submitted to NASA prior to release. NASA MSC also / requests written notification of any uses of this photograph in scientific-engineering projects; typed: COLOR / 27 JULY 1969 / S-69-40138 / MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS / APOLLO 11 CREW RETURNS HOME----Two members of the Apollo 11 lunar / landing mission get a look at the large crowd which gathered at / Ellington Air Force Base very early Sunday to welcome them back / to Houston. Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong (on left) and Edwin E. / Aldrin Jr. (on right) are looking out the window of a Mobile / Quarantine Facility which has just been flown from Hawaii aboard / a U.S. Air Force C141 transport. Looking over the shoulders of / the two astronauts is John K. Hirasaki, a member of the MQF / support staff. Not visible is Astronaut Michael Collins, the third / member of the historic flight. The three crewmen remained in the / MQF until they arrived at the Crew Reception Area of the Lunar / Recovering Laboratory at the Manned Spacecraft Center. The crewmen / will be released from quarantine on August 11, 1969; stamped: Please, do not alter / mark, or airbrush this / print. / Prints must be returned / after use. / Black Star, Library

Tagasauris Keywords: 3 people; 3 people; Apollo 11; Astronaut; Day; Face; Group; Hand; Happy; Head-and-Shoulders Portrait; Indoors; Male; Male; Mid adult; NASA; No Photostyle; Panoramic; Science and technology; Smile; Space Race; Window
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AVIATION / APOLLO 11-PLUS OTHER NASA FLIGHTS
Retouching: N