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a drawing of a space station with a rocket on top of itblack and white photograph of two people working on a machinea black and white photo of the trajectory of a space shuttlea black and white image of a diagram of the organization of vanguard theory programan old diagram of a plane ' s flight path from the beginning to the end of the flight
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7 - Set of 5 photographs: - 1 artist’s impression of the Vanguar…
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Estimate €150 - €200
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Set of 5 photographs: - 1 artist’s impression of the Vanguard SLV-1 on the launch pad (failure on 27 May 1958), 25 x 21 cm. - 3 ‘trajectory planning’ photographs, 25 x 21 cm - 1 US Navy-captioned photograph of the rocket’s second stage being fuelled (3 December 1957), 25 x 21 cm Vanguard was a small American launch vehicle developed by the NRL (Naval Research Laboratory), the aim of which was to place the first artificial satellite into orbit. However, following nine failures out of twelve launches between 1956 and 1959, the Juno 1 launch vehicle was tasked with launching the first satellite into orbit, Explorer 1, on 1 February 1958, without the Vanguard programme being called into question. On 17 March 1958, Vanguard finally achieved success with Vanguard 1, which became the second American satellite in orbit. All the photographs come from the archives of the public relations department of the Martin Company in Baltimore (which later became Martin-Marietta and then Lockheed-Martin). All the documents are original Martin documents and are in black and white.
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About the sale SPACE EXPLORATION AND AERONAUTICS: NASA photos, models, documents, etc.
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Auction time 07/09/2026 at 6:00 PM
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