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November 2, 2017 10:00 AMCalender
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Taken by a Camera Aboard the Apollo 6 Spacecraft

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Auction: American & European Works of Art - 3048MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: November 02, 2017 10:00AM

Description:

Taken by a Camera Aboard the Apollo 6 Spacecraft
Orbital panorama taken 170 miles above Earth from Zambia to the coast of Mozambique, Apollo 6, April 1968. Numbered 'MSC AS6-2-1049' (NASA MSC) in red on the recto right margin. Mosaic of six vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based Kodak paper, each with 'A Kodak Paper' watermark on the verso, overall size 30 x 8 in. (76.0 x 20.1 cm),unmatted.
Condition: Several faint scratches u.r., minor handling crimps in fifth and sixth prints l.c.

N.B. 'They sent up an Apollo spacecraft and they had a camera, an inertial camera. The capsule was pointed with its pointed nose downward. I guess when they went into zero G and the capsule went like this, then the camera started and it just ran, just until it ran out of film. So we had an orbit and a half of vertical photos and they were taken quickly enough so they were stereo pairs. They overlapped, you see. So we had stereo photos all across the Atlantic after the launch, into Africa, and then when they hit a little bit in Africa, then it got dark. Then they begin to come out over on the other side of the Pacific, and then they ran them all the way across the U.S., and then they ran out of film just after they'd passed the coast of Georgia, going into the Atlantic Ocean. Well, those are fascinating, fascinating… I mean, we'd never seen them like that before,' stated Robert Stevenson of NASA's Earth Resource Science Team (JSC oral history). The additional NASA negative numbers (covered by the overlapping sheets) are between AS6-2-1039 to AS6-2-1049.
Estimate $2,000-3,000


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Keywords

Kodak, Robert Stevenson, Zambia, Mozambique, United States