Lot 75
  • 75

Photographs Taken by the Gemini Astronauts - Two Volumes, Eight Astronaut Signatures

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Description

  • Describes the First Era of Man Obtaining Photographic Images from Earth Orbit
  • photographs
Earth Photographs from Gemini III, IV, and V. NASA SP-129. Washington: 1967. ix, 266 pp. 11 by 9 inches. Original red cloth.

INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page: "Gemini V Photos by GORDON COOPER” and SIGNED by CHARLES CONRAD.



Features nearly 250 color photographs, each on a single page, in full Hasselblad 70mm format from the first three manned Gemini missions. Includes a geographic index plus an eight page appendix which lists all flight film magazines with individual frame identification numbers, orbit/date taken, and location description. Photographs from that list illustrated in this volume are denoted with an asterisk.



Earth Photographs from Gemini VI through XII. NASA SP-171. Washington: 1968. x, 266 pp. 11 by 9 inches. Original red cloth.



INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page: "Gemini 6 Photos by: WALLY SCHIRRA and TOM STAFFORD: Gemini IX photos by TOM STAFFORD and Crew; Photos by Gemini XI, CHARLES CONRAD, CDR. & RICHARD GORDON, PLT”; and “BUZZ ALDRIN, GT-12.”



Includes 249 color photographs, some while docked with the Agena target vehicle, formatted the same as the first volume. Appendix A describes the Gemini flights and their crews, with portraits. Appendix B is an extensive 60 page listing of all flight film magazines, and formatted nearly identical to the first volume with the same information topics.



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