President Kennedy and Wernher von Braun; Apollo-Saturn test-flights, Kennedy with NASA officials, the critical Saturn I SA-5 rocket, project Apollo, November 1962-January 1964
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ID 468768
Lot 58 | President Kennedy and Wernher von Braun; Apollo-Saturn test-flights, Kennedy with NASA officials, the critical Saturn I SA-5 rocket, project Apollo, November 1962-January 1964
Estimate value
£ 2 500 – 4 000
NASA / Unidentified Photographer
Test-flights of the Apollo-Saturn space vehicle, Cape Canaveral and White Sands Missile Range
Saturn I SA-3 and Pad Abort Test 1, Project Apollo, November 16, 1962 and November 7, 1963
Two vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based Kodak paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in) and with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, one with NASA-USAF-Cape Canaveral caption and RCA Quality Control stamp on the verso, the other numbered “NASA S-63-21054” (NASA MSC) in blue in top margin
58 b
NASA / Unidentified photographer
Wernher von Braun, Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and chief architect of the Apollo Saturn space vehicle and President John F. Kennedy looking at the Saturn I SA-5 space vehicle, Cape Canaveral
November 16, 1963
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 12.5 x 18cm
58 c
NASA / Unidentified photographer
President Kennedy with NASA officials at Saturn Blockhouse, Launch Complex 37, Cape Canaveral
Project Apollo, November 16, 1963
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA-USAF-Cape Canaveral caption on the verso, numbered “NASA S-63-18880” in black in top margin
58 d
NASA / Unidentified photographer
The Saturn I SA-5 space vehicle on pad at Cape Kennedy
Project Apollo, Saturn I SA-5, January 1964
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSFC caption numbered “3-3496-1” on the verso
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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