** Balloon flight.- Jean Piccard's first multi-celled, or, cluster, balloon "The Pleiades" made up of 98 latex rubber balloons which ascended 3,3...

** Viking Programme.- Three views of Viking I at White Sands Proving Ground and a view of Viking 4 lifting off from the deck of the U.S. Navy's ...

** Astrophotography.- Unknown photographer Orion Nebula, c.1955, vintage chromogenic print, abrasion marks to margins where old tape removed, one ...

** Rockets and Satellites.- A varied collection of U.S. subjects including lift-offs of the Mercury Atlas rockets carrying Scott Carpenter and Jo...

** Rockets and Satellites.- A varied collection of European subjects including Britain's Blue Streak and a large group of French rockets, c.1955-...

** U.F.O.- A Flying Saucer, or a still from a science fiction film, c.1955, vintage gelatin silver print, minor surface cracks, one or two faint ...

** Glinn (Burt) The U.S. Navy Vanguard Test Vehicle 3 explodes two seconds after lift-off at Cape Canaveral, 6 December 1957, vintage gelatin silv...

** Unknown photographer "Answer from God", original maquette for an illustrated article on modern technology in the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shi...

** Project Manhigh.- Joseph Kittinger in the capsule which will take him by balloon to a record altitude of 96,700ft, 2 June 1957, vintage gelati...

** Rockets and Missiles.- A varied group of Rockets and Missiles, c,1957-63, vintage gelatin silver prints, most with NASA or press captions vers...

** Rockets and Missiles.- A varied group of Rockets and Missiles, c.1964-66, vintage gelatin silver prints, most with NASA or press captions vers...

** Soviet Space Programme.- Portraits of Pavel Popovitch, Alexei Leonov and other cosmonauts and weightlessness training, c.1957-66, vintage gel...

** Soviet Space Programme.- A varied group including spacesuits, space dogs and sputniks, c.1957-66, vintage gelatin silver prints, versos with A...

** ⁂ Please note, the description of this lot has changed.Unknown photographer Crab Nebula, c.1958, vintage chromogenic print, abrasion marks to m...

** Explorer 1.- The first Earth satellite tops the Jupiter-C rocket before its launch, 31 January 1958, chromogenic print, "This paper manufactur...

** Morse (Ralph) The Mercury Seven, March 1960, numbered NASA B-60-1587 in black to margin, vintage gelatin silver print, minor creasing and surfa...

** Morse (Ralph) The Mercury Seven, 1959-60, vintage gelatin silver prints, numbered in the margin, NASA captions or manuscript notes to versos, m...

** Luna 3.- A U.S. annotated version of the first image of the far side of the Moon, October 1959, vintage gelatin silver press print, U.P.I. cap...

** Technicians at work on prototypes of the Apollo Command and Service Modules, 1960s, together 8 vintage gelatin silver prints, North American Av...

** Cosmonauts.- Baturin (Vasily M., photographer and cinematographer) Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, 1960-67, four vintage gelatin silver p...

** Cosmonauts.- Baturin (Vasily M., photographer and cinematographer) Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, with Gherman Titov, the second man to ...

** Cosmonauts.- Baturin (Vasily M., photographer and cinematographer) A group of photographs recording Soviet Cosmonauts 1960-67, vintage gelatin ...

** NASA.- A varied collection including official portraits of Shepard, Mattingly, Irwin, Worden, Scott and Slayton, 1960s-70s, vintage gelatin si...

** NASA.- Collection of photographs, prints and ephemera relating to space exploration, 1960s-70s, vintage gelatin silver prints and chromogenic ...

** NASA.- A varied collection including the rocket-powered X-15 aircraft, Worden's EVA, the "Angry Alligator", Earth and Moon views, and Telstar ...

** NASA.- Collection of photographs relating to space exploration, 1960s-70s, vintage gelatin silver prints and chromogenic prints, most with NA...

** Tiros.- Earth views taken by the U.S. observation satellites Tiros I, III, IV and V, 1960-62, together 4 vintage gelatin silver press prints, ...

** Gemini.- A group of studies of astronauts including Young, Schirra, Shepard, Lovell, McDivitt and White, c.1960-66, vintage gelatin silver pri...

** Gemini.- A group of studies of astronauts including Aldrin, Cernan, Stafford, Grissom, c.1960-66, vintage gelatin silver prints, most with Fre...

** Mercury - Redstone 3.- The First American in Space, the Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket carrying the first U.S. astronaut Alan Shepard launches from...

** Alan Shepard, the first American in space, winched aboard a helicopter after splashdown, 5 May 1961; Formal portrait of Alan Shepard, and 5 vi...

** Glenn (John) The First American Manned Orbital Flight ..., authentic recordings from the Mercury Capsule in orbit, with music themes, long-play...

** Rockets.- The Saturn C-1, Redstone / Mercury and Juno rockets at Huntsville, Alabama, February 1961, vintage chromogenic prints, mounted on ca...

** Rockets.- A good group of Titan and other rockets on the launch pad and at lift-off, 1961, vintage chromogenic prints, mounted on card, one or...

** John Glenn undergoes pre-flight tests, 1962, 6 vintage gelatin silver prints, all but the last with NASA captions to versos, 2 numbered NASA S-...

** Collection of artists' concept designs, c.1962-64, vintage gelatin silver prints, most versos with captions by North American Aviation, Martin...

** Collection of artists' concept designs; and 3 diagrams, c.1964-66, vintage gelatin silver prints, most versos with captions by North American ...

** Friendship 7.- Souvenir slides from America's first Orbital Flight taken by Lt. Col. John Glenn with the Ansco Autoset Camera, December 1962, ...

** Mercury Astronauts.- The Mercury Seven, c.1959-62, together 16 vintage silver gelatin prints, most informal studies, most with captions or pho...

** Mercury Astronauts.- The Mercury Seven, c.1959-62, together 16 vintage silver gelatin prints, most informal studies, most with captions or pho...

** Mercury Astronaut.- Walter Schirra: Pressure suit portrait standing by a spacecraft model, 1962, vintage gelatin silver print, trimmed, signed...

** Mercury Astronauts.- Portraits of Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper, 1962-63, together 4 vintage gelatin silver prints, numbered in black to ma...

** Mercury Astronaut.- Gordon Cooper, 1963, 2 vintage gelatin silver press prints, AFP captions verso, both signed in pencil and dated Aug. 2004 ...

** Mercury Astronaut.- John Glenn, 1966, portrait of Glenn standing in front of a large U.S. flag, signed above on mount in ink, inscribed "Best...

** Sixteen astronauts take part in tropic survival training in the Canal Zone, Panama, June 1963, vintage gelatin silver prints, NASA captions to...

** Twelve astronauts take part in tropic survival training in the Canal Zone, Panama, June 1963; 5 views of desert training, Nevada, 1964, vintage...

** Gemini Astronauts.- A varied group including portraits of Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan, Russell Schweickart, Gordon Cooper, Buzz Aldrin and ...

** Gemini Astronauts.- Joseph P. Kerwin and Russell L. Schweickart inside the Lunar Excursion Module Simulator, 1966; Russell L. Schweickart in a...

** Moon.- Series of nine views from Ranger VII, 31 July 1964; Fifteen Views from Ranger IX, 24 March 1965, vintage gelatin silver plates, text and...

** Moon.- Four Lunar Surface views taken by the automatic cameras on Ranger VII and Ranger VIII, August 1964 - February 1965, comprising 2 images ...

** Assembly of the Titan III-C rocket, c.1965, vintage gelatin silver prints, captions taped to versos, minor creasing, one with small abrasion ma...

** Artists' Concept Designs, 1965-81, vintage gelatin silver prints, captions to versos of all but one, 2 with captions to margins, minor marginal...

** Karsh (Yousuf) Portrait of Yuri Gagarin, c.1965, printed later, vintage gelatin silver print, signed by Karsh in ink to lower left corner, phot...

** Gemini 4.- McDivitt (James) Ed White walking in space over Hawaii, June 1965, vintage chromogenic print, numbered in red NASA S-65-30431, "A Ko...

** Gemini 4.- McDivitt (James) Ed White walking in space over El Paso, Texas, June 1965, vintage chromogenic print, numbered NASA 8-65-30428 in re...

** Gemini 4.- McDivitt (James) Ed White in space over the Pacific Ocean, June 1965, vintage chromogenic print, numbered NASA S-65-30427 in red to ...

** Gemini 6.- Stafford (Thomas) The spacecraft approaches to within inches of Gemini 7 in the first rendezvous in space, December 1965, vintage ov...

** Gemini 7.- Lovell (James) Full Moon over the Earth, December 1965, 2 consecutively numbered vintage chromogenic prints, numbered in red NASA S-...

** Gemini 7.- Photographed from Gemini 6 during the first rendezvous in space, December 1965; 2 views of the Gemini 8 rendezvous with the Agena T...

** Gemini 7.- Lovell (James) A striking portrait of Frank Borman in the capsule during their two-week flight, December 1965, vintage Associated Pr...