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Earth Rise, captured by Michael Collins, Apollo 11

Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin photographed this footprint in the lunar soil. 1969

Command module pilot Michael Collins took this picture just before docking at 21:34:00 UT (5:34 p.m. EDT) 21 July 1969. (Apollo 11, AS11-44-6642) Photo: NASA

NASA Scientists study the phases of the moon on lunar models in preparation for an eventual manned flight to the Moon. Life magazine, early 1960s

Blueprint of a Soviet Soyuz rocket for model makers and hobbyists. USSR, 1970s

Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 2002, engraved drawing and wax pencil on Indian ink prepared paper

Émile-Antoine Bayard, Illustration from Jules Verne’s ‘From the Earth to the Moon direct in ninety-seven hours and twenty minutes, and a trip round it.’ {1874}

Mangetsu Full Moon by Yajuro Takashima, Japan, 1963. Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Drawings of the Moon by Galileo Galilei, 1610

The first known photograph of the Moon by John W. Draper - 1840

Vincent van Gogh -Landscape with Couple Walking and Crescent Moon - 1890

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pissing Against the Moon, 1558, oil on panel

Phases of the Moon, from 'The Beauty of the Heavens : A Pictorial Display of the Astronomical Phenomena of the Universe.' by Charles F. Blunt, published 1842

Map details from the Geologic Atlas of the Moon, published by the U. S. Geological Survey ca. 1965

Utagawa Hiroshige, Moon Viewing Point, 1857, Polychrome woodblock print, Japan

Georgia O'Keeffe, Pink Moon Over Water, 1924, oil on canvas

Tracks of the Apollo 15 moon buggy lead to Mount Hadley on the Moon, August 1, 1971. (NASA)

Gustave Doré, Sailing to the Moon, From The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, London, 1867

Mosaic honoring the first woman in space, Russian Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet Aviation School

Biho Takashi, Bat Before the Moon, Japan, 1910

Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri (Australia 1926 – 1998)
Moon Dreaming, 1978
Synthetic polymer paint on composition board
60.9 h x 44.9 w cm

Mask of the Moon (Tl’uk), Sinxolatla (Image of the Sun), ca. 1880, Nuxalk, north-west Pacific Coast, red cedar, alder, paint

Paul Klee. Moon play, 1923

Joan Miró, Moon and boat, 1925

Mandala of Chandra, God of the Moon, late 14th–early 15th century, Nepal (Kathmandu Valley), Distemper on cloth, 40.6 x 36.2 cm

Kim Dorland - Blood Moon, 2015

Formation of the crescent of the Moon' - Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī, Turkish version of ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt (Wonders of creation). (seventeenth CE)

Odilon Redon - Nocturne, huile sur carton, 18 x 23,4 cm