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Goddard, Robert, Seventy-seven NASA Reprints of Vintage Photographs. Series of photographs documenting Goddard's life, work, and inventions reprinted by NASA in 1974, all with purple NASA captions and the round NASA logo on versos, the original photographs captured between 1915 and 1940, with dozens of images of Goddard's rocketry inventions and their deployment, portraits, various workspaces, indoor and outdoor rigs and set ups of launches, equipment, successes and failures from Worcester, Massachusetts to Roswell, New Mexico. Goddard (1882-1945) is considered the father of modern rocket propulsion. This selection of images provides a full visual history of Goddard's work. (77)
The Rudolf Spoor Collection of NASA Photographs and Ephemera
Estimate $800-1,200
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