Vermot de Pas: NASA Photographs - History of Space Conquest, 171095, Paris

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Auction Date: October 17, 2025 - October 17, 2025

Page Size: 324 items in 13 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Nasa.	Firing a "DAN" rocket.	Circa1950.	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
2	NASA. U.S. Air Force.	Night launch of a Thor rocket on April 23, 1958.	1958	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
3	Nasa. US Air Force.	Launch of a Jupiter missile.		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
4	Nasa.	A decade or so after the Second World War, rocket launches followed one another at CAPE CANAVERAL in Florida, in the midst of the race against the Soviet Union for control of space.		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
5	Nasa. US Air Force.	Launch of a "Minutman CB1" military missile.	1961	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
6	Nasa.	Astronaut Gus GRISSOM completes his space voyage by swimming in the ocean.	1961	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
7	Nasa.	Astronaut Scott Carpenter prior to his historic MERCURY AURORA 7 mission.	1962	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
8	NASA.	Astronaut Scott Carpenter dressed and ready for his historic first mission into orbit on May 24, 1962.	1962	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
9	NASA.	One of the first photographs of the lunar surface taken by the RANGER VII space probe.	1964	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
10	Nasa.	Observation of a full moon rising above the Earth's horizon as seen from space.	Circa1960-70.	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
11	NASA.	Large format. Historic Gemini 4 mission: first American spacewalk.		EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
12	NASA.	LARGE FORMAT. Historic Gemini IV mission.		EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
13	NASA.	Liftoff of the ATLAS-AGENA rocket at 10 a.m. from Complex 14 at Cape Kennedy.		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
14	Nasa.	Bean launch of the ATLAS-AGENA rocket, whose module will be joined by astronauts Charles CONRAD and Richard GORDON aboard the Gemini spacecraft.		EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
15	Nasa. LARGE FORMAT. Apollo 4.	Rare photograph of a crescent of the Earth from space.		EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
16	NASA.	Exceptional view of an Earthrise from lunar orbit.		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 189.00
17	NASA.	View of the lunar surface taken by the LUNAR ORBITER IV space probe (Frame #187) during its 33rd lunar orbit on its photographic mission around the Moon on June 2, 1967.	1967	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
18	NASA.	Superb view of the far side of the Moon from the LUNAR ORBITER V space probe.	1967	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
19	NASA. LARGE FORMAT.	Historic view of the 1st survey of the Earth observed by man from lunar orbit by the APOLLO 8 mission on December 24, 1968.	1968	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
20	NASA. LARGE FORMAT.	Photograph of the first human observation of an Earth survey from lunar orbit.		EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
21	NASA. LARGE FORMAT.	The 1st photograph of the Earth in its entirety taken by Humans in Space.		EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 579.60
22	NASA. Apollo 7 mission.	Superb view of the SATURNE IVB rocket's open stage, photographed from the APOLLO 7 mission spacecraft,	October 11, 1968.	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
23	NASA. APOLLO 12 mission.	A superb photograph of the SURVEYOR III spacecraft taken by astronaut Charles Conrad Jr.	1969	EUR 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
24	Nasa. Apollo 11 mission.	Panoramic view of the Saturn V rocket as it leaves the assembly hall at Cap Canaveral for the launch pad.	July 1969.	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
25	Nasa.	Historic lift-off of the Saturn V rocket carrying the 3 astronauts of the Apollo XI mission, who a few days later were about to set foot on the Moon.	July 1969.	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold

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