NASA (Gemini XII)
Buzz Aldrin conducting the first completely successful EVA in outer space, 11-15 November 1966
Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed 1966, numbered "NASA S-66-62937" (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with NASA caption and "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 20,3 x 25,4 cm
A great photograph of Buzz Aldrin at the Agena work station as he became the first astronaut to accomplish a perfectly successful spacewalk which validated the techniques for all subsequent EVAs.
The image was recorded by a 16mm Maurer camera mounted by Buzz Aldrin on the outside of the spacecraft docked to the Agena vehicle. The 9m umbilical EVA cord attaching him to the spacecraft and its open hatch are in the foreground.
Total Eva time was s hours 6 minutes.
(https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1966-104A).
“The whole purpose of Buzz Aldrin’s Extravehicular Activity was to see how well you can work in space. You can operate very nicely out there if you know what you’re doing and just slow down. You have to let zero gravity work for you, not against you.”
James Lovell (Schick and Van Haaften, p. 59)
Specialist: Mag. Eva Königseder
Mag. Eva Königseder
+43-1-515 60-421
eva.koenigseder@dorotheum.at
27.09.2023 - 14:50
- Realized price: **
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EUR 845.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 1,000.- to EUR 1,500.-
- Starting bid:
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EUR 100.-
NASA (Gemini XII)
Buzz Aldrin conducting the first completely successful EVA in outer space, 11-15 November 1966
Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed 1966, numbered "NASA S-66-62937" (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with NASA caption and "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 20,3 x 25,4 cm
A great photograph of Buzz Aldrin at the Agena work station as he became the first astronaut to accomplish a perfectly successful spacewalk which validated the techniques for all subsequent EVAs.
The image was recorded by a 16mm Maurer camera mounted by Buzz Aldrin on the outside of the spacecraft docked to the Agena vehicle. The 9m umbilical EVA cord attaching him to the spacecraft and its open hatch are in the foreground.
Total Eva time was s hours 6 minutes.
(https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1966-104A).
“The whole purpose of Buzz Aldrin’s Extravehicular Activity was to see how well you can work in space. You can operate very nicely out there if you know what you’re doing and just slow down. You have to let zero gravity work for you, not against you.”
James Lovell (Schick and Van Haaften, p. 59)
Specialist: Mag. Eva Königseder
Mag. Eva Königseder
+43-1-515 60-421
eva.koenigseder@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | The Beauty of Space - Iconic Photographs of Early NASA Missions |
| Auction type: | Online auction |
| Date: | 27.09.2023 - 14:50 |
| Location: | Wien | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | Online |
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