“Houston, we’ve had a problem”, oxygen tank explosion in the Service Module; TV picture inside the LM just before the explosion, April 11-17, 1970
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ID 469157
Lot 446 | “Houston, we’ve had a problem”, oxygen tank explosion in the Service Module; TV picture inside the LM just before the explosion, April 11-17, 1970
Estimate value
£ 1 200 – 1 800
Taken by a color TV camera on board the spacecraft
Interior view inside the LM Aquarius just before the explosion
Apollo 13, April 11-17, 1970, 055:29:16 GET
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-70-34845” in red in top margin
446 b
Taken by a 16mm camera inside the LM Aquarius
Oxygen tank explosion in the Service Module: “Houston, we’ve had a problem”
Apollo 13, April 11-17, 1970
Vintage chromogenic print on resin coated Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA Goddard caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA G-72-245” in black in bottom margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)
| Art style: | Color photo |
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| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Art style: | Color photo |
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| Auction house category: | Photography |
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CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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