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Apollo 13, Mission Operations Control, Four Photographs. Including one color 8 x 10 in. photograph taken during the fourth television transmission from Apollo 13, with Eugene Kranz in foreground, back to camera, and astronaut Fred Haise on the screen, S-70-35139, purple NASA caption and worm logo on verso, "This Paper Manufactured by Kodak"; a color photograph of the Mission Control emblem; black-and-white photograph of astronaut Alan Shepard wearing a headset seated at Mission Control on April 14, 1970, at which point the main concern was actions taken by the three Apollo 13 crewmen to make corrections inside the spacecraft following discovery of the oxygen cell failure several hours earlier; [and] a color 8 x 10 in. portrait of Glynn Lunney, Program Manager, Ken Mattingly described Lunney's behavior during the Apollo 13 crisis as, "the most magnificent display of personal leadership that I've ever seen." Lunney accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Nixon on behalf of Mission Control on the day that the Apollo 13 crewmen were safely recovered after a successful splashdown. (4)
The Rudolf Spoor Collection of NASA Photographs and Ephemera
Estimate $300-500
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Kodak, Ken Mattingly, Nixon, Eugene KranzJohn Dorfman
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