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Auction archive: Lot number 272

Orbital moonscapes (4 photos), Apollo 15, 26 July - 7 August 1971

Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$504 - US$756
Price realised:
£160
ca. US$201
Auction archive: Lot number 272

Orbital moonscapes (4 photos), Apollo 15, 26 July - 7 August 1971

Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$504 - US$756
Price realised:
£160
ca. US$201
Beschreibung:

Alfred Worden, James Irwin or David Scot Four extremely rare orbital views of the Moon from magazine 93/P, unpublished after the mission, Apollo 15, 26 July - 7 August 1971 F Vintage chromogenic prints on fibre-based paper, 25,4 x 20,3 cm (10 x 8 in), with A KODAK PAPER watermarks on versos, RED NUMBERED NASA AS15-93-12591, NASA AS15-93-12631, NASA AS15-93-12645, NASA AS15-93-12698 (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center), the third [AS15-93-12645] with three filing holes in top margin not impacting image, (4) Footnotes: AS15-93-12591: Mare Imbrium, AS15-93-12631: Schröters Valley, AS15-93-12645: Humboldt, AS15-93-12698: Mare Imbrium. "Apollo 15 was the first mission of discovery. All the missions before were equatorial in orbit, but this was the first to depart from this region and travel farther north and south. Apollo 15 went closer to the poles into territory we had never seen before. We got new observations of things we did not expect, supported by fabulous hand-held photography." Farouk El-Baz, the astronauts' lunar orbital geology instructor (Schick and Van Haaften, p.113) Condition Report: Three punch holes in print AS15-93-12645 Condition Report Disclaimer

Auction archive: Lot number 272
Auction:
Datum:
29 Jun 2023
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Alfred Worden, James Irwin or David Scot Four extremely rare orbital views of the Moon from magazine 93/P, unpublished after the mission, Apollo 15, 26 July - 7 August 1971 F Vintage chromogenic prints on fibre-based paper, 25,4 x 20,3 cm (10 x 8 in), with A KODAK PAPER watermarks on versos, RED NUMBERED NASA AS15-93-12591, NASA AS15-93-12631, NASA AS15-93-12645, NASA AS15-93-12698 (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center), the third [AS15-93-12645] with three filing holes in top margin not impacting image, (4) Footnotes: AS15-93-12591: Mare Imbrium, AS15-93-12631: Schröters Valley, AS15-93-12645: Humboldt, AS15-93-12698: Mare Imbrium. "Apollo 15 was the first mission of discovery. All the missions before were equatorial in orbit, but this was the first to depart from this region and travel farther north and south. Apollo 15 went closer to the poles into territory we had never seen before. We got new observations of things we did not expect, supported by fabulous hand-held photography." Farouk El-Baz, the astronauts' lunar orbital geology instructor (Schick and Van Haaften, p.113) Condition Report: Three punch holes in print AS15-93-12645 Condition Report Disclaimer

Auction archive: Lot number 272
Auction:
Datum:
29 Jun 2023
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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