Richard Gordon returning to the hatch of the spacecraft after an exhausting spacewalk, NASA [Gemini XI], 12-15 September 1966.
Recorded by an onboard movie camera, Gordon, pilot for the Gemini 11 space flight struggled through a difficult spacewalk, suffering exhaustion while fixing a tether from the spacecraft to the attached Agena target. He had to cut short the EVA when he was blinded by sweat in his right eye. Here, he returns to the hatch of the spacecraft which was orbiting over the Atlantic Ocean at approximately 160 nautical miles above Earth’s surface.
Numbered to upper margin 'NASA S-66-54454' with 'A Kodak Paper' watermarks to verso.
Beautifully framed in our signature black gallery frame. Ready to hang.
Photograph is 10 W x 8 H in and Framed 26.5 W x 24.75 H.
Provenance | Marking the 50th anniversary of the last human voyage to the moon, Wright and LAMA Auction Houses presented One Giant Leap for Mankind: Vintage Photographs from the Victor Martin-Malburet Collection, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Project Apollo (1961–1972), an auction that took place in Chicago on October 28th, 2022. This stunning collection comprises more than 300 original historic photographs from Project Apollo, the NASA program responsible for placing the first humans on the surface of the moon. Meticulously researched and collected over the course of 25 years by Victor Martin-Malburet, each image represents extraordinary feats of human exploration, imagination, and collaboration, and many of those being offered have never been published.
Gemini 11 Recording
Printed 1966
Photograph is 10 W x 8 H in and Framed 26.5 W x 24.75 H.
Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper
Good condition. Newly framed.
$225 in the U.S.
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