a-fut_v_c/bw?_o_AKP (ca. 1969, unnumbered)

            I really don't know...looks like some sort of lunar version of the space tug concept...conducting mining operations? Or maybe fueling operations? Since it looks like there are two hoses running from the two tugs/modules in the foreground to the two manned(?) landing craft in the background. However, on one lander, the hose interface is aft, and on the other, forward. Or is that one leading to the communications(?) antenna just beyond the vehicle? Boeing? Grumman? Lockheed? NASA-design? 
Note also the astronaut taking off/landing via a Lunar Flyer/Lunar Flying Vehicle, in addition to the MOLAB-looking vehicle in the foreground.

I'm not completely sure if this is/was a color photo. It seems to have more vestigial tones to it than if it were just sepia toned (either due to aging or originally), along with the yellowing of the white border, which is commensurate with many color photos of this period. That, along with being on "A KODAK PAPER", almost exclusively used with color photographs, leads me to think color...maybe.

Unfortunately, no signature. Although, stylistically, clues abound: the sinuous cracks/rilles, manor of the brushstrokes, crater depiction, the perspective of the receding background to the lunar horizon, the verticality & semi-jagged nature of some of the peaks, etc., etc. But alas, I'm outta Schlitz with all of this & just don't know.

Taken on: September 22, 2020

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