SURVEYOR I: GROUP OF OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE MOON.7 silver gelatin print photographs, 1966, 8 x 10 inches (204 x 254 mm), NASA Washington press information and image ID printed on verso of each.
WITH: "News Conference / Scientific Review of the Preliminary Findings of Surveyor I." Washington, D.C., NASA News, June 16, 1966. With extensive illustrations.
Provenance: Dr. Floyd L. Thompson, Director, Langley Research Center (presentation letter from Oran W. Nicks, Director, Lunar & Planetary Programs, NASA, Washington, D.C., dated June 10, 1966).
Surveyor 1 successfully demonstrated the technology needed to land and operate on the lunar surface. An important step to the first crewed Moon landing just 3 years later. The photographs would be some of the first Americans would see from this perspective. They were taken using a television camera and transmitted to Earth with a radio telemetry system. The present group with excellent provenance.
SURVEYOR I: GROUP OF OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE MOON.7 silver gelatin print photographs, 1966, 8 x 10 inches (204 x 254 mm), NASA Washington press information and image ID printed on verso of each.
WITH: "News Conference / Scientific Review of the Preliminary Findings of Surveyor I." Washington, D.C., NASA News, June 16, 1966. With extensive illustrations.
Provenance: Dr. Floyd L. Thompson, Director, Langley Research Center (presentation letter from Oran W. Nicks, Director, Lunar & Planetary Programs, NASA, Washington, D.C., dated June 10, 1966).
Surveyor 1 successfully demonstrated the technology needed to land and operate on the lunar surface. An important step to the first crewed Moon landing just 3 years later. The photographs would be some of the first Americans would see from this perspective. They were taken using a television camera and transmitted to Earth with a radio telemetry system. The present group with excellent provenance.
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