Name: Cape Kennedy’s Pad 39A, the launchpad designed for Moon missions, at Sunset; portrait of NASA’s Astronaut Group 5, project Apollo, April-May 1966
Brand: NASA
Price: 700.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

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NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Official portrait of NASA’s Astronaut Group 5

Project Apollo, April 1966

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-66-49626” in red in top margin

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NASA / Unidentified Photographer

View of Cape Kennedy’s Pad 39A, the launchpad designed for Moon missions, at sunset

Project Apollo, May 25, 1966

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-66-65640” in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Copenhagen, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, September 2018-January 2019 and February-May 2019; exhibition catalogue, p. 98, no. 182, illustrated.

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Official portrait of NASA’s Astronaut Group 5, a group of nineteen astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. Nine of them would fly on Apollo Moon missions.
Seated, left to right, are Edward G. Givens Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell, Charles M. Duke Jr., Don L. Lind, Fred W. Haise Jr., Joe H. Engle, Vance D. Brand, John S. Bull, and Bruce McCandless II. Standing, left to right, are John L. Swigert Jr., William R. Pogue, Ronald E. Evans, Paul J. Weitz, James B. Irwin, Gerald P. Carr, Stuart A. Roosa, Alfred M. Worden, Thomas K. Mattingly, and Jack R. Lousma.

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[NASA caption] Launch Complex 39 checkout
Floodlights illuminate Pad 39A during a checkout of facilities. An Apollo/Saturn Facilities test vehicle and Launch Umbilical Tower stand atop the pad’s hardstand. This test vehicle, designated Apollo/saturn 500-F, is being used to verify launch facilities, train launch crews, and develop test and checkout procedures.