[Apollo 9] OUTER-SPACE VIEW OF DAVID SCOTT TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SPACECRAFT HATCH Russell ...

[Apollo 9] OUTER-SPACE VIEW OF DAVID SCOTT TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SPACECRAFT HATCH Russell Schweickart, 3-13 March 1969 Printed 1969. Vintage chromogenic print on fibre-based Kodak paper [NASA image AS9-20-3069]. Numbered 'NASA AS9-20-3069' in black in the top margin, with 'A KODAK PAPER' watermark on the reverse (issued by NASA Manned Spacecraft Centre, Houston, Texas). 20.3 x 25.4 cm. (8 x 10 in.) Historical context Russell Schweickart captured this famous photograph of the first two-man EVA in NASA's space program, showing David Scott's stand-up EVA in the open hatch of the Command Module Gumdrop as it remained docked with the Lunar Module Spider in Earth orbit. Schweickart took this image with the Hasselblad Super Wide camera and its 38mm lens, while performing his own spacewalk, standing on Spider's front porch with his feet secured in the gold-painted foot restraints known as 'Golden Slippers.' In the open hatch of Gumdrop, Scott is also photographing Schweickart with his Hasselblad camera. 'I took this shot of Dave Scott taking a picture of me at the beginning of my EVA on Apollo 9. It captures just a bit of the fantastic beauty of the Earth juxtaposed against the infinite black of space. In the foreground is that amazing combination of human and machine that is enabling us to emerge into the universe out of the womb of Earth.' —Russell Schweickart (Jacobs, p. 42) Footnotes: The first-ever two-man EVA had been conducted just two months earlier by Soviet cosmonauts Khrunov and Yeliseyev, who performed a spacecraft transfer between Soyuz 5 and Soyuz 4 in January 1969. Literature Apollo expeditions to the Moon, Cortright, ed. (NASA SP-350), p. 186 Watch more CLICK HERE: APOLLO 9 Earth Orbit EVA Dual View (Stabilized, Speed Corrected) For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing