Lunar Surveyor Program Photo Mosaic: "Day 318, Survey G, Sectors 3 and 4

United States Geological Survey, 1968. 77 black and white photographs, 2 x 2 inches each, numbered in ink, attached to paper backing. 31 x 14 inches, 35-1/2 x 20 inches framed. Mount with some water staingin at head, otherwise very good, mounted and framed. 77 black and white photographs, 2 x 2 inches each, numbered in ink, attached to paper backing. 31 x 14 inches, 35-1/2 x 20 inches framed. The NASA Surveyor program launched seven lunar missons between 1966 and 1968, five of which successfully landed, demonstrating the feasibility of lunar landings (for the Apollo program), as well as taking lunar photographs and collecting information which helped future moon missions. In this photo-mosaic, Surveyor photographs part of itself, with the lunar surface as backdrop. Only around 200 usable examples of these Surveyor moonscapes were successfully assembled, and even less of them had clear imagery, making the finished mosaics some of the most expensive photographs ever made. (Inventory #: 373411)