The Apollo 11 Plaque on the Moon
Original title
Apollo 11 crew (NASA) Apollo 11 crew
- Institution
- NASA Image and Video Library ↗
- Rights
A NASA photograph, and so a US federal government work, which is not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. § 105).
- Description
- Close view of a ladder on the lunar module, its strut wrapped in gold and silver foil; a metal plaque with two globes and lines of text is fixed between the rungs, with pale grey lunar ground behind.
- Image
- 1600 × 1558
source file - Catalogue no.
- G-008005
coldlibrary.com/g/008005 - Credit line
- Apollo 11 crew (NASA), The Apollo 11 Plaque on the Moon, 20 July 1969. NASA Image and Video Library, public domain. Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/008005
Photographed on the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969, after the thin steel sheet that covered the plaque in flight had been removed. The plaque is still there, on the descent stage of Eagle at Tranquility Base; no one has stood beside it since.
