NASA Apollo 12, Astronaut Pete Conrad Jr Photographed with Flag on the Moon 1960s

Photographed by fellow astronaut Alan Bean, NASA Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad Jr is holding the flag after he and Bean planted it on the moon.This is an 8" x 10" vintage chromogenic print on fiber paper, numbered in red type on recto: NASA (AS12-47-6897) in upper left margin with the "A Kodak Paper" watermarks on verso (photo back). 1969.The “red number” NASA prints made in Houston are the only prints with red numbers. Houston was the terminal for the missions and the first to receive and print the NASA photos. Houston would later send copy negatives to the other Nasa centers across USA. And the other centers usually cropped the images, which were almost never printed 'full frame,’ and the balance of colors was also a little different.The value of vintage NASA photographs from the historic space missions, beginning in the 1960s, is increasing as the scientific community moves forward with innovations to explore distant galaxies, such as the development of the James Webb Space Telesc