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
126	Nasa. HUBBLE telescope.	Observation of the planet Saturn, with a rare event recorded in this photograph.	Circa 1995.	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
127	NASA.	Liftoff of the space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-74) on November 12, 1995.	1995	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
128	NASA.	Nice landing for space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-74) on runway 33 at Kennedy Space Center.	November 20, 1995.	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
129	NASA.	The race to reach the Soviet space station MIR is underway aboard the space shuttle DISCOVERY (Mission STS-63), which lifted off from launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center on the night of February 3, 1995.	1995	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
130	Nasa.	The Delta rocket lifts off for its rendezvous with an asteroid on February 17, 1996. Vintage chromogenic print on Kodak paper.	1996	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
131	Nasa.	At launch complex 17 on the PAD A launch pad of the Cap Canaveral space station, assembly begins on the DELTA II rocket, which will carry the MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR probe.	1996	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
132	Nasa.	Impressive silhouette of the Delta II rocket designed to carry the GLOBAL SURVEYOR space probe on November 7, 1996.	1996	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
133	NASA.	The longest stay in space to date ends successfully for COLUMBIA (Mission STS-78) on July 7, 1996.	1996	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
134	NASA.	Magnificent night landing of Space Shuttle ENDEAVOUR (Mission STS-72) at KENNEDY SPACE CENTER on January 20, 1996.	1996	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
135	NASA.	Perfect profile view of the space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-76) on its mobile assembly and transport platform.		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
136	Nasa.	A rare, imposing bird's-eye view of Space Shuttle Atlantis (Mission STS-84) from the bottom of the orbiter's launch fire and smoke clearing corridors.	April 24, 1997.	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
137	NASA.	Beautiful night takeoff of the space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-86) on September 25, 1997. Vintage chromogenic print on paper: "KODAK".	1997	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
138	NASA.	Superb and rare view of the landing of the space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-86).	October 1997.	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
139	NASA.	Space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-84) turns night into day for a few moments as it rises at 4 hours 7 minutes a.m.	May 15, 1997.	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
140	Nasa.	This photograph is a mosaic of two images taken by the HUBBLE space telescope.	1998	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
141	NASA.	Beautiful view of the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-90) liftoff from launch pad 39B on April 17, 1998.	1998	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
142	NASA. LARGE FORMAT.	NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) was launched on July 22, 1999 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia, as part of mission STS-93.	1999	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
143	NASA.	Astronaut Daniel T. Barry performs a spacewalk outside the International Space Station.		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
144	NASA.	Space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-106) approaches the launch pad on its giant transport cart.	August 14, 1999.	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
145	NASA.	Beautiful panorama of the nighttime liftoff of space shuttle COLUMBIA on July 23, 1999.	1999	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
146	Nasa.	Mission of space shuttle Atlantis (STS-101).	May 2000.	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
147	NASA. LARGE FORMAT.	Magnificent high-definition photograph of the lunar globe made possible by the creation of a mosaic of over 1,300 images of the lunar surface.		EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
148	NASA.	Rare full panorama of the space shuttle launch pad with ATLANTIS (Mission STS-92) on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.		EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
149	NASA.	Beautiful landing of the space shuttle ENDEAVOUR (Mission STS-99) on the runway of the KENNEDY SPACE CENTER on February 22, 2000.	2000	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
150	NASA.	Rocket takeoff.	Circa 2000.	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold

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