The decision to go to the Moon: President Kennedy watching Freedom 7 spaceflight; Alan Shepard successfully back from space, May 5, 1961
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ID 468738
Lot 28 | The decision to go to the Moon: President Kennedy watching Freedom 7 spaceflight; Alan Shepard successfully back from space, May 5, 1961
Estimate value
£ 2 000 – 3 000
Dean Conger
The first American in space Alan Shepard in front of his Freedom 7 spacecraft after his successful flight
Mercury Redstone 3, May 5, 1961
Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 21.8 x 27.8cm, with McDonnell Douglas credit stamp (indicating the print was made in 1967), “D4C 6493” stamp and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso
28 b
Cecil Stoughton
The decision to go to the Moon: President Kennedy watching Freedom 7 Shepard flight at the White House
May 5, 1961
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “US Army Cecil W. Stoughton” credit stamp on the verso
21.8 x 27.8cm (81/2 x 11in)
| 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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CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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