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The First Human Footprint - Astronaut By Alan Bean

By Alan Bean

The First Human Footprint - Astronaut by Alan Bean

"This is a moment that will live in history books forever, July 20th, 1969. It was the day several hundred thousand of us had dreamed of, and planned for, and worked for, it was seven years since President John F. Kennedy gave us the historic challenge, September 12, 1962. Well, we accepted that impossible (at that time) challenge and made John Kennedy's dream, the one we all shared, come true."

"I have painted Neil Armstrong lifting his left foot from the Moon's dusty surface. He, and we, can see the first human footprint placed anywhere in our vast universe other than on our tiny planet Earth. It was so difficult to get here, to this world of "magnificent desolation", as his crewmate, Buzz Aldrin would say a short time later.

"45 years and a quarter of a million miles ago, mankind first stepped foot on another world. This July, Earth will celebrate the 45th Anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s first step on the moon, Apollo’s most celebrated moment. We, the United States of America, had won a very real race to show which country could first land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth. This amazing achievement demonstrated the collective will and capability of over 400,000 American men and women doing their jobs with care and precision.

Neil Armstrong’s footprint on the Moon will serve as an eternal testament to the can-do ability of mankind. Unfortunately, there are no good photographs of this moment and although the black-and-white television image was not very good for that first moonwalk, the soundtrack is still very clear.

"The First Human Footprint," astronaut and moonwalker Alan Bean’s companion piece to "A Giant Leap," was created with an insight and access to the Apollo program that only a fellow moonwalker could have. ,p>“I talked with Neil for quite a while before I started this painting. I wanted to know which rung he was holding with his right hand as he stepped off the ladder with his left foot and how far around the landing pad was his right foot? He remembered most things but we agreed there were some details we just couldn’t remember from our missions.

“I had difficulty accurately painting the reflection in the visor, so I went out to the Johnson Space Center where they have a lunar module. A friend of mine, wearing a gold helmet, posed in the same position that Neil was in on the moon. Then I painted what was in the visor.”

As the centuries unfold, there will be other first footprints in our future first on Mars, on an asteroid, on a moon of Jupiter and on a planet around a different star. They will be much farther away than our Moon but none will ever be a more giant leap for humankind than the one made by Neil Armstrong and all the people who helped him make that leap on July 21, 1969.

This is you opportunity to own a unique and beautiful piece of lunar history, Alan Bean’s "The First Human Footprint," created and signed by the first and only artist to visit another world

The First Human Footprint - Astronaut by Alan Bean is available for sale as a signed and numbered limited edition giclee canvas. They have a 16 x 11 vertical image size and are priced at $950 unframed. LOW SUPPLY!

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Types	Dimensions	Edition Size	Price	Cart
Signed And Numbered Limited Edition Giclee Canvas	15 x 12 Image Size	100	$950.00
Signed And Numbered Limited Edition Artist Proof Giclee Canvas	15 x 12 Image Size	Artist Proof	Please Inquire	Click to Inquire

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