Vermot de Pas: NASA Photographs - History of Space Conquest, 172873, Paris

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Auction Date: December 08, 2025 - December 08, 2025

Page Size: 300 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101	NASA.	Very nice view of Nasa's experimental "HiMat" aircraft.	Circa 1980	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
102	NASA.	VOYAGER 2 mission. This montage of images of the planets visited by Voyager 2 was created from a collection of images taken by the Voyager 2 probe.	Circa 1980	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
103	NASA.	A false-color photograph produced by the VOYAGER 1 space probe: the mists captured from a distance of 22,000 km from Saturn's moon Titan.	November 1980	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
104	NASA.	VIKING mission. View of the planet MARS.	1980	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
105	NASA.	VIKING mission. View of the planet MARS.	1980	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
106	NASA.	VIKING mission. View of the planet MARS.	1980	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
107	NASA.	Historic liftoff of the Space Shuttle Columbia (Mission STS-01)	April 12, 1981	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
108	NASA.	Historic view of the return of the space shuttle COLUMBIA to the Kennedy Space Center following its historic first flight into space.	April 1981	EUR 700.00 - 900.00	Unknown
109	NASA.	Historic photograph. The space shuttle COLUMBIA has just come to rest on the ground at Edwards Air Force Base in California.	April 1981	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
110	NASA.	Space shuttle COLUMBIA (Mission STS-01).Space Shuttle COLUMBIA has just landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.	April 1981	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
111	NASA.	VOYAGER mission (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY). Superb and rare false-color photograph of the rings of the planet Saturn.	1980	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
112	NASA.	Mission VOYAGER. Observation of the surface of the planet Saturn ...	1981	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
113	NASA.	NASA's Voyager 2 took this "false color" photograph of Saturn on July 21, 1981	July 21, 1981	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
114	NASA.	November 11, 1982: lift-off of the 1st operational flight of the Space Transportation System (STS) program, here the Space Shuttle Columbia (Mission STS-5).	November 11, 1981	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
115	NASA.	Close-up view of the historic	November 11, 1982	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
116	NASA.	Magnificent liftoff of the Space Shuttle Columbia	March 22, 1982	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
117	NASA.	Beautiful night landing of the Space Shuttle Challenger (Mission STS-8) at Edwards Air Force Base, California,	September 5, 1983	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
118	NASA.	One of the first views of the open payload bay of an orbiting space shuttle from a television camera inside the shuttle.	February 1984	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	Unknown
119	NASA.	Astronaut Bruce McCandless attached by one foot to the robotic arm of the Space Shuttle Challenger (Mission STS 41B)	February 11, 1984	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
120	NASA.	Historic mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger (STS 41B). 1st flight by a free man in untethered space.	February 1984	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
121	NASA.	Historic mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger (STS 41B). 1st flight by a free man in untethered space.	February 1984	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
122	NASA.	Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA). Bruce McCandless trains with the Trunnion Attachment Device (TPAD)	February 13, 1984	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
123	NASA.	Extra-vehicular activity. Astronaut Dale Gardner uses the MMU to travel to the Westar VI satellite.	November 1984	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
124	NASA.	Astronaut Dale A. Gardner (left), STS-51A mission specialist, holds a "For Sale" sign, referring to the condition of the recaptured communications spacecraft	1984	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
125	NASA.	Impressive photograph of astronaut Dale A. Gardner, equipped with the manned maneuvering unit (MMU)	1984	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown

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