Double Portrait

 Double Portrait




Image (Apollo 12) courtesy of NASA.

Text and video production by Tom R. Chambers (former 
research analyst at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory during 
Project Apollo, 1969-1972).

Music ("Sky Game Menu") by Eric Matyas.
(soundimage.org)

Copyright 2022.



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