Portrait of John Young on the Moon at Descartes research site, EVA 1, 16.27 April 1972

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed 1972, numbered "NASA AS16--114-18388" (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 25,4 x 20,3 cm EK

A spectacular portrait of John Young with the Hasselblad camera mounted on the remote control unit of his chest with a sample bag, using the camera top as a work surface.
His backpack’s antenna used for communication is visible against the dark sky of space.

[Original NASA caption for the photograph] The components of the ALSEP are in the background. The lunar surface drill is just behind and to the right of astronaut Young. The drill's rack and bore stems are to the left. The three-sensor Lunar Surface Magnetometer is beyond the rack. The dark object in the right background is the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG). Between the RTG and the drill is the Heat Flow Experiment. A part of the Central Station is at the right center edge of the picture.

From the mission transcript when the photograph was taken (at T+122:46:09 after launch):
122:45:25 Young: Gosh, Charlie, it does look like caliche.
122:45:27 Duke: Doesn’t it look like caliche?
122:45:28 Young: Yeah, but it’s just a bunch of white frags. I believe. [...]
122:45:50 Young: (To Houston) Okay, that sample of white material is going in bag 355, Houston.
122:45:55 England: Okay, bag 355. (Pause)
122:46:09 Duke: Okay, John, I got your picture.