Original NASA Press Photograph Group

1960S A.D.

10 x 8 in. (74 grams total, 25.6 x 20.4 cm each).

Comprising: monochrome photographic print of a rocket on the launchpad, endorsed 'US Air Force Photo... 8-26-66 CKMYA Titan-Project OfficeSunrise Pre-Launch after Service Tower removal (Palm Tree in foreground) Unclassified'; monochrome photographic print of a rocket leaving the launchpad, endorsed 'US Air Force Photo..Air Force eastern Test [...] Photographic Laboratory Operated by RCA. CKMYA Titan-3C. Launch of Titan-3C Unclassified.'; monochrome photographic print of two rockets leaving their launchpads, endorsed 'US Air Force Photo / Air Force Eastern Test Range Photographic Laboratory Operated by RCA. NASA/GEMINI & Atlas Agena. Unclassified.'; monochrome photographic print of Apollo 9 capsule with flotation ring, endorsed 'John F. Kennedy Space Center. NASA Kennedy Space Center. Florida 32899. For Release March 13, 1969. Photo No. 108-KSC-69P-186 69-H-453. Aboard the USS Guadalcanal - The scorched Apollo 9 spacecraft, cradled in a foatation collar, is hoisted aboard the USS Guadalcanal. prime recovery ship, after safely carrying astronauts James A. McDivitt, David P. Scott and Russell L. Schweikart to splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean. The spacecraft shielded the astronauts from reentry temperatures which exceeded 2,000 degrees. They splashed down at 12:01 pm EST March 13, 1969, at the completion of their 10-day earth orbital mission to test a lunar module spacecraft. Ipact was less than 5 miles from the recovery ship and 780 nautical miles southast of Cape Kennedy. They were launched by an Apolo/Satrn V space vehicle March 3 from the Kennedy Space Center. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration directs the Apollo program. [copyright information.]' [4, No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired on the USA art market.
Property of a Harwich, UK, collector.

CONDITION

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LOT 2115