One Giant Leap for Mankind: Vintage Photographs from the Victor Martin-Malburet Collection 
28 October 2022
One Giant Leap for Mankind: Vintage Photographs from the Victor Martin-Malburet Collection 
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James Irwin saluting the US flag at Hadley Base, David Scott [Apollo 15], 26 July - 7 August 1971, EVA 3

printed 1971
vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper 10 h × 8 w in (25 × 20 cm)
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At the beginning of EVA 3 Irwin and Scott took a series of “tourist” photographs of each other with the American flag in the splendid lunarscape of Hadley landing site. Few Apollo photographs have been reproduced more often than this color photo of Irwin, the American flag, the Rover, the LM and Mount Hadley Delta.
Numbered to upper margin 'NASA AS15-88-11866' with 'A Kodak Paper' watermarks to verso.

note: Media visuals referencing the original NASA photograph(s) not included.
literature: LIFE, 20 August 1971, pg. 28 National Geographic, February 1972, ppg. 236-237 Time, 23 August 1971, pg. 26 A Man on the Moon: Lunar Explorers, Chaikin, ppg. 64-65 Apollo: The Epic Journey to the Moon, Reynolds, ppg. 186-187

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LIFE, 20 August 1971, pg. 28; Time, 23 August 1971, pg. 26

At the beginning of EVA 3 Irwin and Scott took a series of “tourist” photographs of each other with the American flag in the splendid lunarscape of Hadley landing site.

Few Apollo photographs have been reproduced more often than this color photo of Irwin, the American flag, the Rover, the LM and Mount Hadley Delta.

Hadley Delta rises approximately 4,000 m (about 13,000 feet) above the plain; the base of the mountain is 5 km (3 statute miles) away.

“I felt like I was an alien as I traveled through space. When I got on the Moon, I felt at home. We had mountains on three sides and had the deep canyon to the west, a beautiful spot to camp. I felt in a way Adam and Eve must have felt, as they were standing on the Earth and they realized that they were all alone. I talk about the Moon as a very holy place.”

—James Irwin (Kelley, plate 46)

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