Crew portrait; lunar training and prelaunch activities; lunar TV camera; Descartes landing site; Apollo 16; Mariner 9 photographs of Mars, 1970-April 1972 - photo 1

Crew portrait; lunar training and prelaunch activities; lunar TV camera; Descartes landing site; Apollo 16; Mariner 9 photographs of Mars, 1970-April 1972

Lot 572
20.11.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 1 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 572 | Crew portrait; lunar training and prelaunch activities; lunar TV camera; Descartes landing site; Apollo 16; Mariner 9 photographs of Mars, 1970-April 1972
Estimate value
£ 2 000 – 3 000
572 a
Taken by a camera mounted on the Mariner 9 spacecraft

First American orbital photographs of the Planet Mars

April 1972

Two vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ captions on the versos

572 b
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Official portrait of the Apollo 16 crew

Apollo 16, January 1972

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-72-16660” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

572 c
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Portraits of astronauts John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charles Duke preparing for the mission

Apollo 16, December 1971 - April 1972

Three vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ and KSC captions on the versos

572 d
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

John Young and Charles Duke during lunar surface training

Apollo 16, November 1971-January 1972

Two vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ captions on the versos

572 e
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The crew practicing lunar activities in the mission simulators

Apollo 16, April 1972

Two vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC captions on the versos

572 f
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Charles Duke and John Young practicing with the Hasselblad camera and the far ultraviolet
astronomy camera for Moon surface photography

Apollo 16, December 1971

Two vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC captions on the versos

572 g
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The RCA TV camera specially designed to transmit images from the lunar surface

Apollo 16, 1970

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), stamped “RCA Astro Electronics Div 70-10-86C” and with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso

572 h
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The crew studying lunar photographs with geologists Richard Laidley and Farouk El Baz before launch

Apollo 16, April 1972

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC caption on the verso

572 i
Stuart Roosa, Alan Shepard or Edgar Mitchell

The Descartes landing site from lunar orbit

Apollo 14-Apollo 16, February 1971-September 1971

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ caption numbered “71-H-1562” on the verso and “prepared by mapping sciences branch, Manned Spacecraft Center, EOD, NASA, Houston, Texas” at the bottom left of image [NASA AS14-69-9520]
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)
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