Remembering the Space Age. - Black Vault Radio Network (BVRN)

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John Young, Commander of Apollo 16 on the lunar highland plains of Descartes
April 1972. (Charles Duke/NASA)
of the staged scenes created by the photographers. as in fontcuberta’s eVa
photograph of Ivan and Kloka, it would appear that Kahn and Selesnick
appropriated the visual feeling of 1960s era eVa photography from Gemini
missions like White’s Gt4, Cernan’s Gt9, and aldrin’s Gt12. for example, on
the outbound journey to the Moon, the crew of two astronauts emerge from
their Gemini-inspired capsule on an eVa to study nearby asteroids. as the
story continues, the crew lands and explores the lunar surface. the astronauts
pick up rock samples and set up something that looks like the far UV Camera/
Spectrograph. 78 the detail and aesthetics of rock samples and camera recall the
78. See further information on George Carruthers (of the Naval research Lab), who was the pI
and inventor of the Lunar Surface Ultraviolet Camera and its related imagery from apollo 16 at
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap960610.html.