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 - photo 1
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 - photo 2
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 - photo 3
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 - photo 4
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 - photo 5
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 - photo 6
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 - photo 7
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 - photo 8
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 - photo 9
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 - photo 10
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 - photo 11
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 - photo 1

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

Lot 58
20.11.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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£ 4 375
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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
58 a
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
Auction house category:Photography
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