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Price Realised GBP 15,000
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GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000
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First color photograph of the whole Planet Earth; first color photograph of Earth taken beyond low orbit, November 9, 1967
Camera on Apollo 4
Price Realised GBP 15,000
Price Realised GBP 15,000
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The Saturn V rocket made two orbits of the Earth before the third stage booster fired to send the capsule out in a vast ellipse peaking at 9,767 nautical miles, offering a fantastic sight to the automatic camera. Until then the highest altitude color photographs of the Earth had been recorded by the Gemini 11 crew using the rocket on their Agena target vehicle to raise their apogee to 741 nautical miles (1,373 km), the highest Earth orbit ever reached by a crewed spacecraft.
“Coastal Brazil, Atlantic Ocean, West Africa, Sahara, looking northwest, as photographed from the unmanned Apollo 4 (Spacecraft 017/Saturn 501) Earth-orbital space mission. This picture was taken when the Spacecraft 017 and the Saturn IVB stage were orbiting Earth at an altitude of 9,060 nautical miles” (original NASA caption for AS4-1-200).
“This is a sight astronauts will see on the way to the Moon,” Samuel Phillips, Director of the Apollo Program, NASA, commented. “This photograph was one of 755 exposures made at 10.6-second intervals beginning 4 hours 28 minutes after liftoff. Using Eastman Kodak Ektachrome MS, type S.O.-368 film, it was taken by a Maurer Model 220G 70-mm sequence camera.”
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“Coastal Brazil, Atlantic Ocean, West Africa, Sahara, Antarctica, looking west, as photographed from the Apollo 4 (Spacecraft 017/Saturn 501) unmanned, Earth-orbital space mission. This picture was taken when the Spacecraft 017 and Saturn S-IVB (third) stage were orbiting Earth at an altitude of 9,745 nautical miles” (original NASA caption for AS4-1-410).
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 full crescent Earth.
“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 Saturn V rocket made two orbits of the Earth before the third stage booster fired to send the capsule out in a vast ellipse peaking at 9,767 nautical miles, offering a fantastic sight to the automatic camera. Until then the highest altitude color photographs of the Earth had been recorded by the Gemini 11 crew using the rocket on their Agena target vehicle to raise their apogee to 741 nautical miles (1,373 km), the highest Earth orbit ever reached by a crewed spacecraft.
“Coastal Brazil, Atlantic Ocean, West Africa, Sahara, looking northwest, as photographed from the unmanned Apollo 4 (Spacecraft 017/Saturn 501) Earth-orbital space mission. This picture was taken when the Spacecraft 017 and the Saturn IVB stage were orbiting Earth at an altitude of 9,060 nautical miles” (original NASA caption for AS4-1-200).
“This is a sight astronauts will see on the way to the Moon,” Samuel Phillips, Director of the Apollo Program, NASA, commented. “This photograph was one of 755 exposures made at 10.6-second intervals beginning 4 hours 28 minutes after liftoff. Using Eastman Kodak Ektachrome MS, type S.O.-368 film, it was taken by a Maurer Model 220G 70-mm sequence camera.”
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“Coastal Brazil, Atlantic Ocean, West Africa, Sahara, Antarctica, looking west, as photographed from the Apollo 4 (Spacecraft 017/Saturn 501) unmanned, Earth-orbital space mission. This picture was taken when the Spacecraft 017 and Saturn S-IVB (third) stage were orbiting Earth at an altitude of 9,745 nautical miles” (original NASA caption for AS4-1-410).
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 full crescent Earth.
“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).
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Camera on Apollo 4
First color photograph of the whole Planet Earth; first color photograph of Earth taken beyond low orbit, November 9, 1967
Estimate: GBP 2,000 - 3,000
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