Category: The Black Star Collection
Agency: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA)
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: 1969-07-24
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.237250

Inscriptions:
Credit: from BLACK STARCaptions: Verso: ABOARD THE USS HORNET -- Through separated by a window of the Mobila Quarantine Facility, President Richar [SP] Richard M. Nixon and Apollo 11 astronauts, Left to right, Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., share a laugh following splashdown and recovery in the Pacific Ocean today. The President greeted the space pilots aboard the USS Hornet, the prime recovery ship, shortly after their splashdown at 12:50 p.m. Edt, 900 miles southwest of Hawaii, Astronauts Armstong and Aldrin conducted runs's first exploration of the Moon's surface during their eight-day space mission with Collins, who piloted the command module in lunar orbit.Markings:Verso: ABOARD THE USS HORNET -- Through separated by a window of the Mobila Quarantine Facility, President Richar [SP] Richard M. Nixon and Apollo 11 astronauts, Left to right, Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., share a laugh following splashdown and recovery in the Pacific Ocean today. The President greeted the space pilots aboard the USS Hornet, the prime recovery ship, shortly after their splashdown at 12:50 p.m. Edt, 900 miles southwest of Hawaii, Astronauts Armstong and Aldrin conducted runs's first exploration of the Moon's surface during their eight-day space mission with Collins, who piloted the command module in lunar orbit.

Tagasauris Keywords: 4 people; 4 people; Apollo 11; Aviator; Buzz Aldrin; Exploration of the Moon; Face; Indoors; Low angle View; Male; Michael Collins (astronaut); NASA; Neil Armstrong; Night; No Photostyle; Pacific Ocean; Person; Project Apollo; Richard Nixon; Science and technology; Smile; USS Hornet; USS Hornet (CV-12); Waist-Up Portrait; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AVIATION / APOLLO 11-GENERAL STUFF-ASTRONAUTS IN FRANCE
Retouching: N