THE MOON six rare APOLLO 10 lunar orbit photographs showing farside and CRATERS

Description: PRINTS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHS MANUSCRIPTS CURIOSITIES - RARE -APOLLO 10 (the fourth human spaceflight in the United States' Apollo program and the second to orbit the Moon. NASA, the mission's operator, described it as a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing).Six rare views of the lunar farside and nearside from the spacecraft rounding the Moon, Apollo 10, May 1969.A total of 6 vintage b/w gelatin silver prints on fibre-based photographic paper, each black-numbered in margin. Verso of paper plain, with no watermarks or captions. Comprising: [1] AS10-30-4441 - Sea of Tranquillity (landing site for Apollo 11); [2] AS10-30-4372 - bright Copernican crater with extensive ray system (crater no 199); [3] AS10-30-4365 - unusual surface configurations near crater 206; [4] AS10-33-4964 - craters 302 and 305 near Sinus Medii; [5] AS10-31-4651 - Hyginus Rille; [6] AS10-33-4949 - Rhaetigus. Size: each photograph measures approx. 10 x 8¼ in (25.4 x 20.5 cm). Near Fine condition. Very minor creasing to a handful of corners. Marginal crease to top edge of AS10-33-4964, and light handling marks to lower margin. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.Six rare prints of photographs of the surface of the Moon taken by an Apollo 10 astronaut (Eugene Cernan, John Young or Thomas Stafford) through the window of the orbiting spacecraft, showing views on the farside and nearside, and revealing the craterous surface in sharp detail. Apollo 11's trajectory would be virtually identical to that flown by Apollo 10, and these photographs facilitated the identification of key landmarks that paved the way for Apollo 11's moon landing. The crew sent back descriptions of a surface they found to be 'pretty smooth, like wet clay.'These are vintage photographs, though the exact date of printing is not known, presumably quite close to the mission date.Provenance: Dreweatts, Space Exploration Photography and Ephemera, 17th May 2021. key words:

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