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Landing site of the first crewed Moon landing — Sea of Tranquility, July 20, 1969.HE-SP-26-015-APL

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Apollo 11

Archival print in a 20 mm oak or ash frame, ready to hang.

$159
EditionOne terrain · three objects
TeeFrom $45WearableComplete EditionFrom $82Tee + Print
Frame Natural wood
None $48

Oak or ash frame · plexiglass front · ready to hang

Print size

Ready to hang · plexiglass front · 250 gsm matte · FSC

Made to order · Free US shipping. Delivery times vary by destination.

Paper & printing

Printed on 250 gsm archival matte stock — acid-free, FSC-certified, museum grade. Pigment inks, fade-resistant for decades.

Printed image area 45×60 cm (18×24″), framed in oak or ash wood, 20 mm (0.79″) profile, with shatterproof plexiglass. Arrives framed, with a hanging kit, ready to hang.

Shipping & returns

Made to order. Each piece is printed for you after you order — nothing is pre-stocked.

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Returns & exchanges.

Damaged or misprinted? Free reprint or refund within 30 days of delivery.

Every piece is made to order — no pre-stock, no waste. That changes how returns work.

  • Damaged, defective, or the wrong item shipped to you: free reprint or refund. Email within 30 days with your order number and a photo.
  • Doesn’t fit when you try it on: we can’t offer free size exchanges (reprinting + reshipping means a full second production run). We do not accept returns or exchanges for size issues.
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Design: 100% human-made by a professional graphic designer, from the real data specified on this page. Marketing photos may use an AI-composited mockup scene — the design itself is always the exact file we sell.

JULY 20, 1969 · 20:17 UTC

Neil Armstrong. Buzz Aldrin. 21 hours 36 minutes on the surface.

Landing site of the first crewed Moon landing — Sea of Tranquility, July 20, 1969.

— The Story

The first ground we ever stood on.

This is the only terrain in the archive that is a moment, not a place. At 20:17 UTC on July 20, 1969, the lander Eagle touched the Sea of Tranquility and, for the first time, human beings rested on ground that was not Earth. The coordinates matter less than the date.

Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder nearly seven hours later; Buzz Aldrin followed nineteen minutes after. Their single walk lasted 2 hours 31 minutes and never strayed more than about 60 meters from the lander — their tracks cover less area than a city block, on a world a quarter-million miles from every other person alive but one. They carried home 21.55 kilograms of the Moon and left the first human footprints on another world. With no wind to erase them, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed their paths in 2012.

The contour on this piece is the real ground at Tranquility Base, drawn from NASA LOLA laser altimetry — the place we first stood, to scale.

The one terrain defined not by geology, but by a single moment.
— Apollo 11, in numbers

A first step,fixed in place.

JULY 20, 1969 · 20:17 UTC
SEA OF TRANQUILITY · THE MOON
Touchdown20:17 UTCJuly 20, 1969 · Tranquility Base
First step02:56 UTCJuly 21 · Armstrong, then Aldrin
Moonwalk2h 31msingle EVA · within 60 m of Eagle
Surface time21h 36mtotal time on the Moon
Samples21.55 kg47.5 lb of rock and soil
Mission8 dayslaunch Jul 16 · splashdown Jul 24
— The object

How it's made.

The same archival print, framed in oak or ash and ready for the wall.

Paper

250 gsm (110 lb) archival matte paper, uncoated, natural white. FSC-certified.

Frame

Oak or ash wood, 20 mm (0.79 in) profile, in white, natural wood or black.

Front

Shatterproof plexiglass.

Arrives

Framed, with a hanging kit, ready to hang. Made to order.

— Provenance

Every line,traceable.

◉ Terrain

Archive ID HE-SP-26-015-APL
Trophy JULY 20, 1969 · 20:17 UTC — Neil Armstrong. Buzz Aldrin. 21 hours 36 minutes on the surface.
Terrain Apollo 11 · 0.6742 · 23.4731 · Sea of Tranquility
Source NASA LRO LOLA · 118 m/px
Dataset / version NASA LRO LOLA DEM + LROC (landing-site terrain)
Resolution 118 m/pixel · 256 px/degree
Contour interval Source: NASA LRO LOLA · 118 m/px · Rendered: 0.7 km
Projection IAU Moon 2015 · selenographic · 1737.4 km sphere

◉ Method

Extraction QGIS 3.34 · contour extraction from source grid
Editing Human vector cleanup in Illustrator · no smoothing algorithms applied
License NASA public domain · no attribution required · PDS hosted
AI use None in the terrain. No generative models, no style-transfer, no AI autocomplete, no automated contour simplification — at any stage of extraction or editing.
Verification Cross-referenced with NSSDCA and NASA LROC landing-site data
Issue 04 · Spring 2026
Provenance Verify this Archive ID →
— The gift

Made to be received.

Built to be opened slowly. A considered piece for someone who knows the place — or wants to remember it.

Gift ready

A considered terrain piece for someone who knows the place — or wants to remember it.

No size guessing

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