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Auction archive: Lot number 48

Two views of the rendezvous and docking with Agena, Gemini 10, 18-21 Jul 1966

Estimate
£300 - £500
ca. US$401 - US$669
Price realised:
£170
ca. US$227
Auction archive: Lot number 48

Two views of the rendezvous and docking with Agena, Gemini 10, 18-21 Jul 1966

Estimate
£300 - £500
ca. US$401 - US$669
Price realised:
£170
ca. US$227
Beschreibung:

Michael Collins Two views of the rendezvous and docking with Agena, the first one showing Gemini 10 docked to Agena, the other showing Agena from the distance of 41 feet Gemini 10, 19-20 July 1966 Two vintage chromogenic prints on fibre-based paper, 25.3 x 20.5 cm (10 x 8 in), RED NUMBERED NASA S-65-46143 and NASA S-65-46124, both with A KODAK PAPER watermarks, the latter with NASA Manned Spacecraft Center caption on verso Footnotes: After successfully docking with Agena target vehicle, Young and Collins boosted the combined spacecraft into orbit and achieved the new altitude record for manned spacecraft at the apogee of 413 nautical miles. They also managed to dock with a dormant drifting Agena from the aborted Gemini 8 mission thus executing the programme's first double rendezvous.

Auction archive: Lot number 48
Auction:
Datum:
25 Feb 2022 - 27 Feb 2022
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:

Michael Collins Two views of the rendezvous and docking with Agena, the first one showing Gemini 10 docked to Agena, the other showing Agena from the distance of 41 feet Gemini 10, 19-20 July 1966 Two vintage chromogenic prints on fibre-based paper, 25.3 x 20.5 cm (10 x 8 in), RED NUMBERED NASA S-65-46143 and NASA S-65-46124, both with A KODAK PAPER watermarks, the latter with NASA Manned Spacecraft Center caption on verso Footnotes: After successfully docking with Agena target vehicle, Young and Collins boosted the combined spacecraft into orbit and achieved the new altitude record for manned spacecraft at the apogee of 413 nautical miles. They also managed to dock with a dormant drifting Agena from the aborted Gemini 8 mission thus executing the programme's first double rendezvous.

Auction archive: Lot number 48
Auction:
Datum:
25 Feb 2022 - 27 Feb 2022
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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