Moment of impact in the Sea of Tranquillity; close-up of future Apollo 11 landing site, Ranger VIII; major lunar craters; last photograph before impact, Ranger IX, February 20-March 24, 1965
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ID 468773
Lot 63 | Moment of impact in the Sea of Tranquillity; close-up of future Apollo 11 landing site, Ranger VIII; major lunar craters; last photograph before impact, Ranger IX, February 20-March 24, 1965
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£ 1 200 – 1 800
Taken by the F-a camera on board the Ranger VIII robotic spacecraft
First close-up photograph of the future Apollo 11 landing area in the Sea of Tranquillity
Ranger VIII, February 20, 1965
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ caption numbered “65-H-190” on the verso
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Taken by the F-a camera on board the Ranger VIII robotic spacecraft
The moment of impact in the Sea of Tranquillity
Ranger VIII, February 20, 1965
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ caption numbered “65- H-190” on the verso
63 c
Taken by the F-B camera on board the Ranger IX robotic spacecraft
Craters Ptolemaus, Alphonsus and Albategnius seen by the crashlander before its impact on the lunar surface
Ranger IX, March 24, 1965
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA Goddard caption numbered “65-H-190” on the verso
63 d
Taken by the F-A camera on board the Ranger IX robotic spacecraft
The last photograph transmitted by the crashlander before its impact in Crater Alphonsus
Ranger IX, March 24, 1965
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC caption numbered “106- KSC-65-6160” on the verso
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)
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