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Auction archive: Lot number 171

The Planet Earth [large format], Apollo 11, July 1969

Estimate
£2,500 - £3,500
ca. US$3,473 - US$4,863
Price realised:
£1,100
ca. US$1,528
Auction archive: Lot number 171

The Planet Earth [large format], Apollo 11, July 1969

Estimate
£2,500 - £3,500
ca. US$3,473 - US$4,863
Price realised:
£1,100
ca. US$1,528
Beschreibung:

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, or Michael Collins One of the most iconic images of the planet Earth. Taken as the spacecraft headed for the Moon, at about 98,000 miles from the Earth. It shows most of Africa and portions of Europe and Asia can be seen in this spectacular photograph taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its trans-lunar coast toward the moon 16-24 July 1969 Large format vintage chromogenic print on textured Kodak paper, 35.7 x 27.8 cm (14 x 11 in), [NASA photo no AS11-36-5355], with A KODAK PAPER watermark on the verso, (NASA Kennedy Space Center) Footnotes: 'Houston, Apollo 11 . . . I've got the world in my window.' Michael Collins (Apollo 11 air-to-ground transmission) 'Where are the billions and billions and billions of people, on what I'm looking at? We're the only three that are not back there.' And we didn't get to celebrate. Because we were out of town.' Buzz Aldrin

Auction archive: Lot number 171
Auction:
Datum:
17 Mar 2021
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:

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, or Michael Collins One of the most iconic images of the planet Earth. Taken as the spacecraft headed for the Moon, at about 98,000 miles from the Earth. It shows most of Africa and portions of Europe and Asia can be seen in this spectacular photograph taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its trans-lunar coast toward the moon 16-24 July 1969 Large format vintage chromogenic print on textured Kodak paper, 35.7 x 27.8 cm (14 x 11 in), [NASA photo no AS11-36-5355], with A KODAK PAPER watermark on the verso, (NASA Kennedy Space Center) Footnotes: 'Houston, Apollo 11 . . . I've got the world in my window.' Michael Collins (Apollo 11 air-to-ground transmission) 'Where are the billions and billions and billions of people, on what I'm looking at? We're the only three that are not back there.' And we didn't get to celebrate. Because we were out of town.' Buzz Aldrin

Auction archive: Lot number 171
Auction:
Datum:
17 Mar 2021
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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