Lot Nr. 180


David Scott (Apollo 15)


Portrait of James Irwin and the Lunar Rover in front of Mount Hadley, 26 July - 7 August 1971

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber based paper, printed 1971, numbered "NASA AS15-86-11603" (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with NASA caption and "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 20,3 x 25,4 cm

“Vistas without parallel in human experience surrounded the crews on the great voyages of exploration.”
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt (NASA SP-250, p. 265)

At Apollo 15’s desolate Moon base beneath the shadowy mass of Mt. Hadley, astronaut James Irwin tends to the ungainly but precious lunar rover, the $13 million Moon buggy that carried Irwin and Dave Scott 18 miles through the lunar highlands and made the latest space venture, in Scott’s words, “exploration at its greatest.”

Literature:
LIFE, 20 August 1971, ppg. 26-27; Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs, Chaikin, pg. 120; Spacecam: Photographing the Final Frontier from Apollo to Hubble, Hope, pg. 29.

Expertin: Mag. Eva Königseder Mag. Eva Königseder
+43-1-515 60-421

eva.koenigseder@dorotheum.at

27.09.2023 - 17:00

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EUR 1.430,-
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EUR 1.200,- bis EUR 1.800,-
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EUR 600,-

David Scott (Apollo 15)


Portrait of James Irwin and the Lunar Rover in front of Mount Hadley, 26 July - 7 August 1971

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber based paper, printed 1971, numbered "NASA AS15-86-11603" (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with NASA caption and "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 20,3 x 25,4 cm

“Vistas without parallel in human experience surrounded the crews on the great voyages of exploration.”
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt (NASA SP-250, p. 265)

At Apollo 15’s desolate Moon base beneath the shadowy mass of Mt. Hadley, astronaut James Irwin tends to the ungainly but precious lunar rover, the $13 million Moon buggy that carried Irwin and Dave Scott 18 miles through the lunar highlands and made the latest space venture, in Scott’s words, “exploration at its greatest.”

Literature:
LIFE, 20 August 1971, ppg. 26-27; Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs, Chaikin, pg. 120; Spacecam: Photographing the Final Frontier from Apollo to Hubble, Hope, pg. 29.

Expertin: Mag. Eva Königseder Mag. Eva Königseder
+43-1-515 60-421

eva.koenigseder@dorotheum.at


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Auktion: The Beauty of Space - Iconic Photographs of Early NASA Missions
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Datum: 27.09.2023 - 17:00
Auktionsort: Wien | Palais Dorotheum
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