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Auction archive: Lot number 258

Apollo 11 Moon Landing.- Two rare original transcripts of the Apollo 11 Mission Control commentary of the first lunar landing and first moon walk, featuring the immortal lines 'The Eagle has landed' and 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap ...

Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$2,563 - US$3,845
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 258

Apollo 11 Moon Landing.- Two rare original transcripts of the Apollo 11 Mission Control commentary of the first lunar landing and first moon walk, featuring the immortal lines 'The Eagle has landed' and 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap ...

Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000
ca. US$2,563 - US$3,845
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Apollo 11 Moon Landing and Moon walk.- Two original transcripts of the Apollo 11 Mission Control commentary of the first lunar landing and first moon walk, together 54 pages, stapled top-left corner, housed in 20th century cloth boxes, as issued by John Jenkins (see below), 4to, Houston, 1969 (2) ⁂ Rare original transcripts of the taped exchanges between Mission Control in Houston, the command module Columbia and the lunar module Eagle, containing the immortal lines 'The Eagle has landed' and 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'. They were distributed to visiting dignitaries and reporters to the centre on 20th July, 1969. Those discarded (about 90 sets) were collected by the Texas bookseller John Jenkins who offered them for sale in the present cloth cases at $65 for both parts. They have become increasingly difficult to find.

Auction archive: Lot number 258
Auction:
Datum:
27 Mar 2020
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
Beschreibung:

Apollo 11 Moon Landing and Moon walk.- Two original transcripts of the Apollo 11 Mission Control commentary of the first lunar landing and first moon walk, together 54 pages, stapled top-left corner, housed in 20th century cloth boxes, as issued by John Jenkins (see below), 4to, Houston, 1969 (2) ⁂ Rare original transcripts of the taped exchanges between Mission Control in Houston, the command module Columbia and the lunar module Eagle, containing the immortal lines 'The Eagle has landed' and 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'. They were distributed to visiting dignitaries and reporters to the centre on 20th July, 1969. Those discarded (about 90 sets) were collected by the Texas bookseller John Jenkins who offered them for sale in the present cloth cases at $65 for both parts. They have become increasingly difficult to find.

Auction archive: Lot number 258
Auction:
Datum:
27 Mar 2020
Auction house:
Forum Auctions
4 Ingate Place
London, SW8 3NS
United Kingdom
info@forumauctions.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7871 2640
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