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Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
November 2, 2017 10:00 AMCalender
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Taken by a Maurer 70mm Camera Aboard the Apollo 4 Spacecraft

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$461$375
Auction: American & European Works of Art - 3048MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: November 02, 2017 10:00AM

Description:

Taken by a Maurer 70mm Camera Aboard the Apollo 4 Spacecraft
The Earth photographed in color as a planet in space by the unmanned spacecraft, Apollo 4, November 9, 1967. 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. The photographic mission of Apollo 4 was the acquisition and return of the highest altitude color imagery ever made of the Earth. Located in the capsule of the spacecraft, looking out of the window, was not an astronaut but an automatic 70mm Maurer camera which took this beautiful view of the Earth from a distance of about 9,000 miles. Every picture of the whole Earth so far had been electronically transmitted; this time the negative was taken back to Earth and was recovered in the Pacific after reentry of the capsule (Poole, p. 86). The NASA negative number is AS4-1-200.

Literature: Cortright, p. 198.
Estimate $600-800


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