NASA, 1965

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THE FIRST AMERICAN SPACE WALK
NASA, 1965
MCDIVITT, James (1929-2022), as commander of Gemini 4. Two vintage color photographs of Ed White's EVA over New Mexico and southern California, June 3-7 1965.
Vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based Kodak paper with "A Kodak Paper" watermarks on the versos, 8 x 10 in. each, matted and framed together.

Provenance

Victor Martin-Malburet
sold, Christie's, Voyage to Another World: The Victor Martin-Malburet Photograph Collection, 20 November 2020, lot 73

Exhibited

The second photograph:
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. 100, no. 88, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

1. First US spacewalk, Ed White’s EVA over southern California, Gemini IV, June 3-7, 1965, orbit 3, 004:37:31 GET. Numbered “NASA S-65-30430” in red in top margin and with NASA MSC caption in purple on the verso. (Touch of creasing to top corners.)

2. First US spacewalk, Ed White’s EVA over New Mexico, Gemini IV, June 3-7, 1965,orbit 3, 004:39:00 GET. [NASA S-65-30433.] See Schick and Van Haaften, p. 34; Hope, p. 45; Reynolds, p. 48.

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