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The expended Saturn SIVB stage over the Earth; views of Earth from space: Sunset; horizon over Los Angeles; Cape Kennedy, October 11-22, 1968

W. Cunningham; W. Schirra; D. Eisele [Apollo 7]

Name: The expended Saturn SIVB stage over the Earth; views of Earth from space: Sunset; horizon over Los Angeles; Cape Kennedy, October 11-22, 1968
Brand: W. Cunningham; W. Schirra; D. Eisele [Apollo 7]
Price: 400.00 GBP
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The expended Saturn SIVB stage over the Earth; views of Earth from space: Sunset; horizon over Los Angeles; Cape Kennedy, October 11-22, 1968

W. Cunningham; W. Schirra; D. Eisele [Apollo 7]

Price Realised GBP 500

Closed: 19 Nov 2020

Price Realised GBP 500

Closed: 19 Nov 2020

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195 a
Walter Cunningham

The expended Saturn SIVB stage seen during rendezvous over the Earth

Apollo 7, October 11-22, 1968, orbit 3, 003:16:00 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS7-3-1545” in red in top margin

195 b
Walter Cunningham, Walter Schirra, or Donn Eisele

Sunset from space

Apollo 7, October 11-22, 1968, orbit 3, 004:00:00 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak Paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in) and with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “AS7-3-1554” at the bottom of image (NASA / North American Rockwell)

195 c
Walter Cunningham, Walter Schirra, or Donn Eisele

The Earth horizon over California and Los Angeles

Apollo 7, October 11-22, 1968, orbit 17, 027:03:00 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak Paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in) and with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “AS7-11-2022” in the image’s margin (NASA / North American Rockwell)

195 d
Walter Cunningham, Walter Schirra, or Donn Eisele

Cape Kennedy from space, the launch site of the future lunar voyages

Apollo 7, October 11-22, 1968, orbit 17, 027:12:00 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak Paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS7-11-2038” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

195 a
Schick and Van Haaften, p.89; Reynolds, p. 78.

195 a
Zürich, Kunsthaus, Salzburg, Museum der Moderne, Fly me to the Moon, March-June 2019 and July-November 2019; exhibition catalogue, p. 359, no. 23.

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Lot Essay

The distance between the spacecraft and the SIVB is approximately 100 feet. Behind the open Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter panels of the SIVB is the Gulf of Mexico. The panels had not fully deployed, which would have been problematic on a mission that carried an LM, but the panels would be jettisoned explosively on future flights.

003:15:36 Cunningham: We’re looking right down at the Cape. We can get a picture of it in the background.
003:15:40 Stafford (Mission Control): Roger. You got a picture of them over the Cape in the background.
003:15:42 Cunningham: The Cape’s not clear.
003:15:44 Stafford: Roger.
003:15:45 Schirra: Now it’s starting to clear. [Pause.]
003:15:56 Stafford: Roger. You on top of the booster this time, Wally?
003:15:58 Schirra: Say again.
003:15:59 Stafford: You on top of the booster?
003:16:01 Cunningham: [Garble] we got some real great stuff here.
003:16:04 Stafford: Good show. Okay. In about a minute, the booster should start its retrograde maneuver.
003:16:10 Schirra: The booster is - engine is set up facing down toward the Atlantic Ocean - to straight down. We’re pointing straight down.

The photograph was taken from an altitude of 125 nautical miles showing the Earth horizon over the cloud-covered Indian Ocean at the terminator.

“It’s very difficult to do good photography from space... You have only 45 minutes of daylight, and the first and last portions are not all that useful for color matching,” said Cunningham. “Because the spacecraft is drifting, you’re waiting there for the middle of a 45-minute period with one of the windows pointed close to the vertical instead of being pointed out into space” (Schick and Van Haaften, p. 84).

003:47:40 Public Affairs Officer (Mission Control): [...] The crew during this period as they move across the Indian Ocean will let us check the Flight Plan here. They’re coming in to a sunset - or their in the night - they are in darkness. [...] We should hear from them when they come into range of Carnarvon at 4 hours and 5 minutes into the mission. This is Apollo Control, Houston.

This photograph from magazine P/11 was taken from an altitude of 125 nautical miles showing Los Angeles to Oceanside (foreground), San Gabriel mountains, Mojave Desert, San Joaquim Valley.

027:01:58 Cunningham: Roger. At 27 hours into the flight, we’re fixing to take some pictures of the [garble]. [Pause]
027:02:08 Swigert (Mission Control): Roger. Understand. And, Walt, over Texas in about 3 minutes, we’re going to have three NAV loads that we’d like to send you.

This rare photograph from magazine P/11 was taken from an altitude of 125 nautical miles.

027:13:17 Schirra: Houston, Apollo 7. We completed a series of photographs from the Hawaiian Islands across the Gulf Coast, Houston, New Orleans, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Orlando, Cape Patrick, into the Grand Bahamas [garble] [Long pause]
027:13:42 Swigert (Mission Control): Wally, you were a little bit garbled. I didn’t catch you. [Pause]
027:13:47 Schirra: Roger. We continued from the Hawaiian Islands, across the Gulf Coast, through Florida to Grand Bahama on (Hasselblad film) magazine Peter at that time, P as in Peter.