Coming Home From the Moon
The command module America on the way back, with nothing left to do but get home.
Dark grey and light grey are not available in this size.
Inside the Apollo 17 command module America on the journey back from the Moon in December 1972, joined from two frames, AS17-163-24133 and 24134. One crewman drinks from a bag while the other rests with his eyes closed, the cabin's equipment packed in around them. NASA dates neighbouring frames on the same magazine to 17 December 1972, two days before splashdown.
Nobody is posing. A drink bag, closed eyes, checklists and switches on every surface. You see the last days of the last Apollo flight as the crew lived them.
Size, frame and mount
Each of our frame sizes is measured across the glaze, the clear acrylic front of the frame.
Why Perspex. We use high quality Perspex, as clear as glass, so you see the photograph exactly as it should look. It is also light and shatter resistant, so it protects the photograph, arrives safely wherever you are, and keeps even the largest frame easy to hang. Museum glass with UV protection costs a great deal more, and we would rather keep our prints at a price more people can enjoy. Prefer glass? Ask us.
Made to order, where and how
Every print is made for you when you place an order, so we stay in control of every step, from the file we restored for the book to the finished print. Our studios in the US, the UK, the EU and Australia each print for their own region.
Framed prints are giclée printed on fine art paper, set in an acid free white mount behind acrylic glazing, and framed in sustainably sourced wood with a smooth satin finish.
Delivery and returns
Free shipping worldwide, insured and tracked.
1. Made for you. Your print is made to order and ready for the courier within 24 to 96 hours.
2. On its way. Delivery then usually takes:
- United Kingdom: 1 to 3 working days
- United States: 1 to 5 working days
- Europe: 1 to 10 working days
- Rest of the world: 2 to 15 working days
You get a tracking link by email as soon as it leaves the studio. Need it by a certain date? Get in touch and we will check what is possible.
Returns. Every print is made for you, so we cannot take returns for a change of mind. Damaged in transit, or not what you expected? Email us photographs of it and the packaging within 30 days and we will put it right.
DeliveryOur most asked questions
Most NASA and space prints online come from old, low resolution press release images, recycled across the internet. Ours start from NASA’s scans of the original film and its processed mission images, restored from scratch with the latest tools. They are the same high quality restorations that feature in our bestselling books.
Neither. It is the glaze, the clear Perspex at the front of the frame. The photograph sits inside a mount, so it is smaller: a 20 × 20 in glaze holds a 16 × 16 in photograph. The frame is 7/8 in (22 mm) deep.
Yes. The hanging hardware is already fitted to the back: a cobra hook on frames up to about 27.5 × 39.4 in (70 × 100 cm), and a sawtooth hanger on larger frames. A screw or a nail in the wall is all you need.
Framed prints are giclée printed on fine art paper, then mounted and framed by hand. Photo art prints are printed on 240gsm lustre photo paper with a satin finish, right to the edge. Both are printed from the files we restored for the books.
A framed print leaves our studio within 24 to 96 hours, a photo art print within 24 to 72 hours. After that, delivery usually takes:
- United States: 1 to 5 working days
- United Kingdom: 1 to 3 working days
- Europe: 1 to 10 working days
- Rest of the world: 2 to 15 working days
These are usual times rather than guarantees, and parcels often arrive sooner.
Print size
Printed to the edge. No border, mount or frame.
Cut the mount window slightly smaller than the print.
Made to order, where and how
Every print is made for you when you place an order, so we stay in control of every step, from the file we restored for the book to the finished print. Our studios in the US, the UK, the EU and Australia each print for their own region.
Photo art prints are printed on 240gsm lustre photo paper with a satin finish, right to the edge, with no white border. They are rolled in tissue paper for shipping.
Delivery and returns
Free shipping worldwide, insured and tracked.
1. Made for you. Your print is made to order and ready for the courier within 24 to 72 hours.
2. On its way. Delivery then usually takes:
- United Kingdom: 1 to 3 working days
- United States: 1 to 4 working days
- Europe: 1 to 8 working days
- Rest of the world: 2 to 15 working days
You get a tracking link by email as soon as it leaves the studio. Need it by a certain date? Get in touch and we will check what is possible.
Returns. Every print is made for you, so we cannot take returns for a change of mind. Damaged in transit, or not what you expected? Email us photographs of it and the packaging within 30 days and we will put it right.
DeliveryOur most asked questions
Most NASA and space prints online come from old, low resolution press release images, recycled across the internet. Ours start from NASA’s scans of the original film and its processed mission images, restored from scratch with the latest tools. They are the same high quality restorations that feature in our bestselling books.
Neither. It is the glaze, the clear Perspex at the front of the frame. The photograph sits inside a mount, so it is smaller: a 20 × 20 in glaze holds a 16 × 16 in photograph. The frame is 7/8 in (22 mm) deep.
Yes. The hanging hardware is already fitted to the back: a cobra hook on frames up to about 27.5 × 39.4 in (70 × 100 cm), and a sawtooth hanger on larger frames. A screw or a nail in the wall is all you need.
Framed prints are giclée printed on fine art paper, then mounted and framed by hand. Photo art prints are printed on 240gsm lustre photo paper with a satin finish, right to the edge. Both are printed from the files we restored for the books.
A framed print leaves our studio within 24 to 96 hours, a photo art print within 24 to 72 hours. After that, delivery usually takes:
- United States: 1 to 5 working days
- United Kingdom: 1 to 3 working days
- Europe: 1 to 10 working days
- Rest of the world: 2 to 15 working days
These are usual times rather than guarantees, and parcels often arrive sooner.
Frame by frame
Most of these photographs were taken in space, often through pressure gloves, in raw sunlight with no atmosphere to soften it, in extreme heat and cold, and on the Moon among the dust. The film flew home inside the spacecraft. Others were taken here on Earth, at the launch pad or in the lab, and developed like any other roll of film.
All of them have been copied many times since, so the versions you find online continue to carry the dust, scratches and heavy grain. We start from NASA’s highest resolution film scans and image data, remove the dust and scratches, keep the film's natural grain and bring back the tone and colour, without adding anything that was never there.
Why a panorama. At the landing site and at each stop along the way, the crews photographed the whole scene around them. Back on Earth, geologists used these panoramas to see where each sample was taken and what lay around it. The camera was fixed to the chest and had no viewfinder, so the astronaut turned on the spot a little at a time, one frame per step, each frame overlapping the next.
How the frames become one photograph. Shown here are the frames that make up this print, each as NASA scanned it and laid where it sits. No two frames were made from exactly the same point or angle, so we line them up on the details they share, bend each one slightly so the horizon runs true, even out the exposure from frame to frame and blend the seams, until the panorama reads as one photograph.
Restored for the books
Many space prints online are made from old, low quality copies. Ours are made from the files we restored for our books, cleaned up frame by frame. No airbrushing, nothing added: we keep it true to the original.
Made to order
Each print is made for you when you place an order, in our studios in the US, the UK, the EU and Australia. No prints sitting around gathering dust.
No surprises at the door
Prints for the US, the UK, the EU and Australia are made in that region, so they never cross a border. Faster delivery, and no import fees to pay when it arrives.
Free shipping worldwide
Prints are insured and tracked all the way to your door, for extra peace of mind.
Apollo VII-XVII
Revised and Extended Edition, teNeues, 2025. The photograph was researched and restored for the book.
