The Beauty of Space: Vintage NASA Photos
Description:
Walter Cunningham (American, b. 1932)
The Himalayas, highest mountains of the Earth (including Mount Everest),photographed from space, Apollo 7, October 1968. Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper with 'A Kodak Paper' watermark on the verso, image size 7 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. (19.2 x 24.0 cm),unmatted.
Condition: Good.
N.B. Etched with remarkable clarity, the Himalayas pass beneath the high-flying Apollo 7 at an altitude of 130 nautical miles. The world's dozen peaks which reach a height greater than five miles above sea level are visible with the 29,028 ft. high Mount Everest at lower center (https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo7/html/as7-07-1748.html). With at least one window in the spacecraft always facing such dazzling sights, Cunningham grew a bit blasé. On the eleventh or twelfth pass he found himself thinking, "Oh, it's the Himalayas again" (Mason, p. 144). The NASA negative number is AS7-7-1748.
Literature: Mason, p. 144; Thomas, p. 151; Reynolds, p. 77.
Estimate $400-600
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