Liftoff: ten photographs including the launches of Mercury-Atlas 7; SA-6; Gemini-Titan III; Gemini-Titan IV; Apollo Launch Escape Vehicle BP-23A; AS-202, March 26, 1962, to August 25, 1968
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ID 519434
Lot 143 | Liftoff: ten photographs including the launches of Mercury-Atlas 7; SA-6; Gemini-Titan III; Gemini-Titan IV; Apollo Launch Escape Vehicle BP-23A; AS-202, March 26, 1962, to August 25, 1968
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£ 1 000 – 1 500
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered 'AS12-49-7278' in black on right margin on recto
ii. AS-101; SA-6 lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 28, 1964
vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, trimmed to 19.1 x 22.9cm (71/2 x 9in.), with NASA MSFC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on verso
iii. Gemini-Titan III lifts off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, March 23, 1965
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)
iv. Gemini-Titan IV lifts off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, June 3, 1965
vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered 'S-65-29635' in red in right margin recto, with NASA MSC caption and 'A Kodak Paper' watermarks verso
v. Apollo Launch Escape Vehicle BP-23A lifts off from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, June 29, 1965.
vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA caption and 'A Kodak Paper' watermarks verso
vi. Uncrewed, sub-orbital test flight AS -202 lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, 25 August 1966
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered 'SM 478110' on verso
vii. NASA SATURN; Gas converter building & piping to Launch Area, Pad 37, Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 26, 1962
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with caption on verso
viii. NASA SATURN; Aerial photo of LH2 and RP-1 fuel area, Pad 37, Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 26, 1962
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with caption on verso
ix. Mercury-Atlas 7; Portrait of second US man in orbit Scott Carpenter, at the Mercury Control Center, Florida, May 1962
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered 'S-62-1560' in black on top margin on recto
x. Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and his spacecraft Faith 7 are hoisted aboard the USS Kearsarge after his receovery from the Pacific Ocean, May 16, 1963
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered 'S-63-7885' in black on top margin recto, with NASA caption on verso
| Genre: | Portrait |
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| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Genre: | Portrait |
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| Auction house category: | Photography |
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