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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Official portrait of the last man on the Moon Eugene Cernan, NASA [Apollo 17], 1971

printed 1971
vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper 8 h × 10 w in (20 × 25 cm)
estimate: $600–800
result: $94
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"Going to the Moon is an extraordinary thing! It doesn’t matter if you’re first or last; it’s extraordinary.” —Ken Mattingly, Apollo 16 astronaut (Chaikin, Voices, pg. 165)
Numbered to upper margin 'NASA S-71-51309' with 'A Kodak Paper' watermarks to verso.

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Eugene A. “Gene” Cernan (American; Chicago, 1934 - Houston, 2017), Apollo 17 Mission Commander, was born on March 14, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois.

He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1956 and an M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1961. He was chosen in the third group of astronauts in 1963. He was the Pilot of Gemini IX-A, the back-up Pilot for Gemini XII, backup LM Pilot for Apollo 7, Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 10, and backup Commander for Apollo 14. He was the eleventh and also the last man to walk on the Moon. Later, he was the deputy director of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. He resigned from NASA and the Navy on July 1, 1976.

“Going to the Moon is an extraordinary thing! It doesn’t matter if you’re first or last; it’s extraordinary.”

—Apollo 16 astronaut Ken Mattingly (Chaikin, Voices, pg. 165)

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