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[Project Mercury] The inception of Mission Control at Cape Canaveral. NASA, 1960. Printed 1960. Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper. 20.3×25.4cm (8×10in), blank on the verso (NASA HeadQuarters, Washington, D.C.).

[Original NASA caption for a variant of this photograph]. The facility monitors Mercury capsule location and attitude, the functioning of its systems, and the astronaut’s condition on suborbital and orbital flights of NASA’s manned orbital flight program. The large board indicates the planned flight path of future manned space missions.

Condition

Minor crease and pin holes to top right margin corner, otherwise excellent condition.

Auction

Space, 15 November 2023

Category
Estimate

3,000–5,000 DKK

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Price realised

1,700 DKK  

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