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
76	Nasa.	Hollywood view of the SATURN 1-B rocket on its Cape Kennedy launch pad before lift-off, which will send the 1st SKYLAB space laboratory into orbit.	May 24, 1973.	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
77	NASA.	Recovery at sea of the manned module from a GEMINI mission.	Circa 1965.	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
78	Nasa. Viking Mission.	A beautiful geological observation of the Martian terrain, composed of a mosaic of images taken by the Viking Orbiter probe.	1976	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
79	Surveyor III probe.	Footprint of the Surveyor probe on the lunar surface.	1969	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
80	NASA.	Back to the Shuttle Enterprise assembly hall after space shuttle launch pad tests.	July 1979.	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
81	Assembling a solid-fuel rocket for the Space Shuttle in the impressive cathedral-factory of the John F.	Kennedy Space Center in Florida.	November 1979.	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
82	NASA. LARGE FORMAT. VOYAGER 1.	photographic montage showing the planet Saturn and several of its satellites, Dione, Tethys, Mimas, Enceladus, Rhea and Titan.	1980	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
83	Nasa.	Superb oblique view of the planet Saturn from the Voyager 1 probe, with the moons Tethys and Dione clearly visible above.		EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
84	Nasa.	The planet Saturn and the planet Earth.	1980	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
85	NASA. GRAND FORMAT. VOYAGER 2.	This view of Saturn's C ring (and, to a lesser extent, the B ring above and to the left) was compiled from three separate images taken through ultraviolet, clear and green filters.	1981	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
86	Nasa.	Panoramic takeoff of the space shuttle Columbia (Mission STS 5) seen from the Cape Canaveral swamps on November 11, 1982.	1982	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
87	NASA.	Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia (Mission STS-5) on November 11, 1982.	1982	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
88	Nasa.	The Space Shuttle Challenger (Mission STS 7) in orbit, photographed by the SPAS-1 satellite on June 22, 1983.	1983	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
89	NASA.	Famous photograph of the space shuttle Challenger as seen by the SPAS-01 satellite floating above the globe on June 22, 1983 (Mission STS-7).	1983	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
90	NASA.	Historic liftoff of the space shuttle CHALLENGER (Mission STS-6) for its inaugural flight on April 4, 1983. Vintage chromogenic print on "THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK" paper.	1983	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
91	NASA. LARGE FORMAT.	Historic photograph of the 1st untethered free-floating man in Space.	1984	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 579.60
92	A view of the "sky" from the payload bay of space shuttle Discovery's STS 41-D mission, which has just received the instruments for the OAST-1 solar study program on its first mission.	Mission STS 41-D began on August 30, 1984. Vintage chromogenic print on Kodak paper.	1984	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
93	Nasa.	Superb View of the Globe of the Earth.		EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
94	Nasa.	Aerial view of space shuttle Discovery (Mission STS-26) being delivered to launch pad 39B, with the ground organization clearly visible.	July 4, 1988.	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
95	NASA.	A superb lift-off of the space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-27) from Kennedy Space Center and its mythical launch pad 39B.	1988	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
96	NASA.	Beautiful liftoff of Space Shuttle Discovery (Mission STS-29) from Cape Kennedy Launch Complex 39B on March 13, 1989. Vintage chromogenic print on paper: "THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK".	1989	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
97	NASA.	Exceptional lift-off of the space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-43) on August 2, 1991.	1991	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
98	Nasa.	Space Shuttle Atlantis (Mission STS-36).	1990	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
99	Nasa.	Space shuttle Endeavour on its launch pad, with its impressive metal architecture clearly visible.	Circa 1990.	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
100	NASA.	A beautiful panoramic of the impressive photographic scene of the space shuttle takeoff from the Kennedy Space Center.	Circa 1990.	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold

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