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Space Exploration Photography and Ephemera
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Dreweatts
Donnington Priory
Newbury, Berkshire
RG14 2JE
United Kingdom
Space Exploration Photography and Ephemera

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In light of the government Covid-19 National Lockdown now in place, our salerooms are closed to the public for auction viewings.  Many of the lots already have additional detail images and condition reports, but if you require further information, please click the “Ask a question” button next to the lot.   

Unless otherwise stated, all photographs are vintage prints on fibre-based paper. Resin-coated paper and the watermark "This Paper Manufactured by Kodak” were gradually introduced in the years 1971-1972.  The watermark is always stated in the cataloguing description and, where the clarity of the watermark allowed, represented in the supplied image. Additional images can be provided on request.

The sale charts the remarkable journey from space exploration being a far-fetched concept to a breath-taking reality...read more!

Auction dates
17 Mar 2021 12:00 GMT
Auction currency
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There are 379 lots within this auction
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Fairchild metric camera photograph of craters Macrobius A, B and Franz, Apollo 17, December 1972
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400 - 600 GBP
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The last view of a near full Moon showing features unseen from Earth, Apollo 17, December 1972
320 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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The 'Blue Marble', sun-illuminated Planet Earth during translunar coast, Apollo 17, December 1972
900 GBP
750 - 1,000 GBP
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The 'Blue Marble', the first photograph of the full Earth seen by humans, Apollo 17, December 1972
4,800 GBP
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
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Diptych: the last EVA of the Apollo programme, deep space EVA, Apollo 17, December 1972
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500 - 700 GBP
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The return of the last men on the Moon [four photographs], Apollo 17, December 19, 1972
240 GBP
200 - 400 GBP
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The USA-USSR rendezvous; Deke Slayton and Alexei Leonov in weightlessness, Apollo-Soyuz, July 1975
150 GBP
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Orbital views of the Martian surface, Mariners 6-9, 1969-1971
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The first photograph of the Martian surface and the lander’s self-portraits [19], Viking 1&2, 1976
420 GBP
400 - 500 GBP
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Eighteen orbital views of planet Mars, Viking Orbiters 1 & 2, 1976
300 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Mars and its moon, Mariner 6/Viking 1, 1969/1976
160 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Jupiter with its Great Red Spot [large format], Voyager 1, February 1979
240 GBP
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Two composite images of Jupiter and Saturn with their moons, Voyager 1, 1979
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Jupiter [four views], Voyager 2, June-July 1979
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Views of Saturn and its rings [four prints], Voyager 1, October- November 1980
300 GBP
600 - 800 GBP
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Bruce McCandless during the first untethered spacewalk, Space Shuttle STS-41B, February 1984
220 GBP
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Three lift-off views of Space Shuttle 'Atlantis', May-October 1989
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Four views of the launch and landing of Space Shuttle 'Endeavour', STS-59, April 1994
240 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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