Orbital views including the first US photograph of the lunar farside, August 1966; model of the revolutionary Kodak camera-carrying Lunar Orbiter, 1966

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Lot 131 | Orbital views including the first US photograph of the lunar farside, August 1966; model of the revolutionary Kodak camera-carrying Lunar Orbiter, 1966
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NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Model of the revolutionary Kodak camera-carrying Lunar Orbiter robot spacecraft

Lunar Orbiter, 1966

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

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Taken by a Kodak camera on board the robot spacecraft Lunar Orbiter I

The Moon seen by the first American Moon orbiter including the first American photograph of the lunar farside

Lunar Orbiter I, August 25 and 26, 1966

Three vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), the first and second with NASA Langley captions on the versos, numbered “NASA L-66-7827 and L-66-7842” in black in top margin, the third with NASA HQ caption numbered "66-H-1130" on the verso
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)
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