File:Fallen Astronaut.jpg

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DescriptionFallen Astronaut.jpg	View of Commemorative plaque left on moon at Hadley-Apennine landing site. A close-up view of a commemorative plaque left on the Moon at the Hadley-Apennine landing site in memory of 14 NASA astronauts and USSR cosmonauts, now deceased. Their names are inscribed in alphabetical order on the plaque. The plaque was stuck in the lunar soil by Astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin during their Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity. The tiny, man-like object represents the figure of a fallen astronaut/cosmonaut.
Date	2 August 1971
Source	Original image at [1] Another: http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/luceneweb/caption_direct.jsp?photoId=AS15-88-11894
Author	NASA
Other versions	Original picture

This image or video was catalogued by one of the centers of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: AS15-88-11894.

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	13:01, 12 November 2012	1,306 × 1,306 (500 KB)	Craigboy	Darkened
	04:05, 30 October 2011	1,306 × 1,306 (471 KB)	Craigboy	Slightly higher res http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo15/html/as15-88-11894.html
	11:54, 15 July 2009	1,024 × 1,024 (577 KB)	<bdi>Latente Flickr</bdi>	hires from GAPE http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=AS15&roll=88&frame=11894
	06:28, 28 March 2006	271 × 270 (33 KB)	Underbar dk
	06:25, 28 March 2006	543 × 541 (132 KB)	Underbar dk