Vintage NASA "Red Number" Color photo

Image: AST-2-104

 A vintage chromogenic 10" x 8" print on Kodak fiber-based paper bearing the "Paper Manufactured by Kodak" watermark on the verso.

“This paper manufactured by Kodak” paper was used from the early 1970s though the late 1990s.

 Numbered NASA Photo AST-2-104 from late Dick Underwood collection.

The photo has overall even toning on verso and the fades to red, which is very common with the photos from this period, a factor due in great part to the humidity and heat in Houston.

 Richard “Dick” Underwood (1927-2011) was chief engineer on the production of the first topographic maps of the moon. He was the first person to view every photograph from the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and the first 23 space shuttle missions.

He also provided technical training to every astronaut who went in to space in the 20^th century.