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APOLLO 11 LIFTS OFF ON ITS HISTORIC FLIGHT TO THE MOON, JULY 16, 1969; ONE OF TWO LIFTOFF PHOTOS

RALPH MORSE

Name: APOLLO 11 LIFTS OFF ON ITS HISTORIC FLIGHT TO THE MOON, JULY 16, 1969; ONE OF TWO LIFTOFF PHOTOS
Brand: RALPH MORSE
Price: 1300.00 GBP
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Price Realised GBP 1,638

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APOLLO 11 LIFTS OFF ON ITS HISTORIC FLIGHT TO THE MOON, JULY 16, 1969; ONE OF TWO LIFTOFF PHOTOS

RALPH MORSE

Price Realised GBP 1,638

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[1] Ralph Morse
Apollo 11 lifts off on its historic flight to the Moon
Apollo 11, July 16, 1969, 000:00:01 GET
Vintage photograph with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso and a stamp reading “Space Photos”.

[2] Ralph Morse
The launch of Apollo 11
Apollo 11, July 16, 1969
Vntage photograph with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso and a stamp identifying "RCA Astro-Electronics DIV: 69-12-503C".
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Lot Essay

[1] “You have to realize that the rocket had to go through the camera, in a sense. It had to go through the camera’s field of view,” said famous Life Magazine photographer Ralph Morse (American, 1917-2014). “It took me two years to get NASA to agree to let me make this shot. Now, RCA had the camera contract at Cape Canaveral at that time, and they had a steel box-with optical glass-attached to the launch platform. We negotiated a deal with them and I was able to put a Nikon, with maybe 30 or 40 feet of film, inside the box, looking out through the glass. The camera was wired into the launch countdown, and at around minus four seconds the camera started shooting something like ten frames per second” (Time magazine, July 1, 2014, http://time.com/3880305/apollo-11-photos-of-what-liftoff-looked-like/).

[2] Apollo 11 launched at 9:32 EDT and consisted of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin. This mission was the first to land on and return from the surface of the moon.