The Beauty of Space: Vintage NASA Photos
Description:
Taken by a Camera Aboard the Apollo 7 Spacecraft
Two photographs showing the first TV transmissions from an American-crewed spacecraft, Apollo 7, October 1968. NASA HQ captions on the verso. Vintage gelatin silver prints, image sizes to 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. (19.5 x 24.6 cm),unmatted.
Condition: Minor handling creases.
N.B. Crewmembers Donn Eisele and Walter Schirra are depicted in the first image, and Walter Cunningham can be seen in the second image. Although Gordon Cooper had experimented with a "slow-scan" TV camera during his 1963 Mercury flight, the picture quality was very poor, and the images were shown on a delayed basis. For Apollo, the RCA corporation had developed a 4.5 pound black and white camera that, while still a slow-scan unit, provided much better images (Bizony, p. 16). There were seven telecasts which lasted only a few minutes each, but gave millions on Earth their first view of living in space.
Literature: Reynolds, p. 78 (first image).
Estimate $300-500
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Keywords
RCA CORPORATION, Gordon Cooper, Walter Cunningham, Walter Schirra, N.B. Crewmembers Donn EiseleRobin S.R. Starr
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