11 a
Taken by a TV camera inside the Vostok 4 spacecraft

In flight view of cosmonaut Pavel Popovich orbiting the Earth during the first two-spacecraft mission and the Earth from space

Vostok 4, August 12-15, 1962

Two vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, 15.1 x 23cm and 18 x 24cm, original wire press photos, the first with “UPI” credit copyright stamp and press caption dated “MO AUG 13 1962” on the verso, the second with “Reportagebild Stockholm- Sweden” credit copyright stamp on the verso

11 b
Valentina Tereshkova

First photograph from space taken by a woman

Vostok 6, June 16-19, 1963

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 18.2 x 24cm, original press photo with TASS credit stamp and TASS press caption in Russian on the verso
18.2 x 24cm (7 x 9.5in)

This lot will be removed to Christie’s Park Royal. Christie’s will inform you if the lot has been sent offsite. Our removal and storage of the lot is subject to the terms and conditions of storage which can be found at Christies.com/storage and our fees for storage are set out in the table below - these will apply whether the lot remains with Christie’s or is removed elsewhere. Please call Christie’s Client Service 24 hours in advance to book a collection time at Christie’s Park Royal. All collections from Christie’s Park Royal will be by pre-booked appointment only. Tel: +44 (0)20 7839 9060 Email: cscollectionsuk@christies.com. If the lot remains at Christie’s it will be available for collection on any working day 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. Lots are not available for collection at weekends.
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.

Conditions of Sale
FAQs
This lot is offered by Christie Manson & Woods Ltd

Brought to you by

Lot Essay

11 a
[Press caption] Lt. Col. Pavel Popovich smiled broadly into the TV camera of his spaceship Sunday soon after he was placed into orbit. The picture was taken from space and sent live to Moscow’s television screens. Popovich joined another Soviet cosmonaut, Adrian Nicolayev in orbit. The latter went up saturday.

The Soviet space mission Vostok 4 was launched on August 12, 1962, a day after Vostok 3 with cosmonaut Adrian Nicolayev on board, the first time that more than one crewed spacecraft were in orbit at the same time. The two Vostok capsules came within 6.5 km of one another and ship-to-ship radio contact was established but the cosmonauts of Vostok 3 and 4 did not attempt rendezvous. Popovich spent three days in space and Nicolayev four days orbiting the Earth 64 times, a feat which would not be matched by NASA until the Gemini program (1965–1966).

11 b
Vostok 6, launched on June 16, 1963, was the first human spaceflight to carry a woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, into space.

Tereshkov also became the first woman to take photographs from space (John Glenn took the first still photographs from space during his orbital flight on February 20, 1962).