[Gemini V] FEATURED IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: Wild China from space Gordon Cooper or Pete Conrad, ...

[Gemini V] FEATURED IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: Wild China from space Gordon Cooper or Pete Conrad, 21-29 August 1965 Printed 1965. Vintage chromogenic print on fibre-based Kodak paper [NASA image S-65-45763]. With 'A Kodak Paper' watermark on the reverse, numbered 'NASA S-65-45763' in red in the top margin (issued by NASA Manned Spacecraft Centre, Houston, Texas). 20.3 x 25.4 cm. (8 x 10 in.) Historical context This photograph with extraordinary detail highlights uncharted territory in China and the beauty of Earthscapes from space. 'Everybody is interested in the Earth we live on. The astronauts just brought it home visually. Nobody could ever draw or paint it. I think their missions will live forever through photography'. Les Gaver, former photography director, Public Affairs, NASA (Schick and Van Haaften, p. 12) Footnotes: [National geographic caption for the photograph] Wild ridges and rivers, valleys and peaks lie northwest of Chungking. Light vegetation appears to cover these heavily eroded ridges. Cultivated slopes, upper right, flank the new town of Ch'iao-ko-a-ma. The on-board camera was a hand-held NASA-modified 70mm Hasselblad 500C with 80mm lens and MS Ektachrome thin base film, ASA 64 (Anscochrome D-50 film was also used during the mission). Literature National Geographic, November 1966, pp. 664-665 The View from Space: American Astronaut Photography 1962-1972, Schick and Van Haaften, p. 29 Watch more CLICK HERE: Gemini V Full Mission - Historical Narration & Footage, Conrad, Cooper, 1965, NASA, Long Duration For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing