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
151	NASA.	Impressive view of the globe from Space and the Space Shuttle (Mission STS-57).	1993	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Unknown
152	NASA.	Space Shuttle Endeavour (Mission STS-61). Space shuttle Endeavour takes off at night on its first maintenance mission for the HUBBLE space telescope.	December 1993	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
153	NASA.	Spectacular view of the nighttime liftoff of Space Shuttle Discovery, mission STS-56,	April 8, 1993	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
154	NASA.	The Space Shuttle Columbia rises like a golden tower from its launch pad into the cloud-covered royal blue sky to complete its mission STS-58	October 18, 1993	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
155	NASA.	Liftoff of Space Shuttle Discovery (Mission STS-60) on	February 3, 1994	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
156	NASA.	Radar photograph of the surface of Venus taken by the Magellan probe	October 1994	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
157		Space shuttle Endeavour lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a 17-day mission (STS-67) in space o	March 18, 1995	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
158	NASA.	Space Shuttle Discovery (Mission STS-70). Space Shuttle Discovery's braking parachute during its landing at Kennedy Space Center.	July 22, 1995	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
159	NASA.	Space shuttle Atlantis (Mission STS-74) has just completed its 5.5km journey from the assembly building to launch pad 39A.	October 12, 1995	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
160	NASA.	Nice view of space shuttle Atlantis (Mission STS-74) on launch pad 39A.	October 12, 1995	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
161	NASA.	Beautiful panorama of the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis (Mission STS-74)	November 12, 1995	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Unknown
162	NASA.	Space shuttle Atlantis (Mission STS-74) breaks free from Earth's weightlessness and heads for the stars.	November 12, 1995	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
163	NASA.	Spectacular and exceptional photographic painting of the lift-off of the space shuttle "ENDEAVOUR".	Circa 1990	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
164	NASA.	Liftoff of the space shuttle "DISCOVERY" from Cape Kennedy, Florida.	Circa 1990	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	Unknown
165	NASA.	View of the early morning lift-off through the vegetation of CAP CANAVERAL of the space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-74).	November 1995	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
166	NASA.	Historic photograph of the "PILLARS OF CREATION".	1995	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
167	NASA.	Superb view of space shuttle Atlantis (Mission STS-71) still connected to the Russian space station Mir, photographed by the Mir-19 crew on	July 4, 1995	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown
168	NASA.	Spectacular night liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis (Mission STS 79).	September 16, 1996	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
169	NASA.	Night lift-off of Space Shuttle Endeavour (Mission STS-72) on	January 11, 1996	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
170	NASA.	View of the Earth and territory of Israel and the Dead Sea formed three million years ago from space shuttle Endeavour (Mission STS 77),	May 1996	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
171	NASA.	Landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis (Mission STS-76) at Edwards Air Force Base, California	March 31, 1996	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
172	NASA.	A beautiful profile liftoff of Space Shuttle Endeavour (Mission STS-77)	May 19, 1996	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Unknown
173	NASA.	Astronaut Winston E. Scott crosses the payload bay of space shuttle Endeavour (Mission STS-072)	January 1996	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	Unknown
174	NASA.	Beautiful lift-off of space shuttle COLUMBIA (Mission STS-80) en route to the International Space Station (ISS).	November 1996	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
175	NASA.	HUBBLE telescope. Observing the planet SATURN.		EUR 600.00 - 900.00	Unknown

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