Crew portraits with cameras and spacesuits; Guidance Computer; RCA TV camera; first crewed Apollo spacecraft; NASA officials; mission emblem, December 1967-October 1968 - photo 1

Crew portraits with cameras and spacesuits; Guidance Computer; RCA TV camera; first crewed Apollo spacecraft; NASA officials; mission emblem, December 1967-October 1968

Starting price
£ 1 200
Auction dateClassic
20.11.2020 00:00UTC +01:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
Event location
United Kingdom, London
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ID 468902
Lot 192 | Crew portraits with cameras and spacesuits; Guidance Computer; RCA TV camera; first crewed Apollo spacecraft; NASA officials; mission emblem, December 1967-October 1968
192 a
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Portrait of the crew posing with their space cameras

October 1968

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-66-21590” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

192 b
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The astronauts wearing their spacesuits during mission simulation tests for the first manned Apollo flight

Apollo 7, December 1967

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ caption numbered “67- H-971” on the verso

192 c
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The control panel of the Command Module spacecraft and the Apollo Guidance Computer’s DSKY

Apollo 7, January 1968

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 22.8cm, right margin trimmed close to image, with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso and “1-25-68 7008-83-404 I” and “Space Division North American Rockwell Corporation” at the bottom of image (NASA / North American Rockwell)

192 d
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The RCA camera developed for the first live TV broadcasts from outer space

Apollo 7, June 1968

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ caption numbered “68- H-537” on the verso

192 e
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The first crewed Apollo spacecraft 101 Block II Command and Service Modules

Apollo 7, August 1968

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-68-42513” in red in top margin

192 f
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The new NASA deputy administrator Thomas Paine meeting MSC director Robert Gilruth during preparations for the first crewed Apollo mission

Apollo 7, April 1968

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on verso, numbered “NASA S-68-29701” in red in top margin

192 g
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The official emblem of the first manned Apollo space mission

Apollo 7, June 1968

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-68-26668” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)
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