John Young (American, b. 1930)

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John Young (American, b. 1930)
Sunset from space, Gemini 3, March 1965. Numbered ' NASA S-65-18753' (NASA MSC) in red on the recto u.l. margin. Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper with 'A Kodak Paper' watermark on the verso, image size 7 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (18.3 x 18.3 cm),unmatted.
Condition: Minor crease to l.l. corner.

N.B. There was no plan for photography during the Gemini 3 mission. Overwhelmed by the beauty of the Earth, Gus Grissom and John Young took pictures of their own during the three orbits. 'There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn't exist on Earth, even on a cloudless summer's day in the Rockies, and from nowhere else can you realize so fully the majesty of our earth and be so awed at the thought that it's only one of untold thousands of planets,' wrote Grissom in his book Gemini: A Personal Account of Man's Venture Into Space (p. 108).
Estimate $400-600


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