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[Gemini X] Extremely rare photomontage of the Titan rocket carrying John Young and Michael Collins to the highest Earth orbit hitherto reached by humans. NASA, 18 July 1966. Printed 1966. Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper. 20.3×25.4 cm (8×10 in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso.
The Gemini-Titan X spacecraft carrying astronauts John Young, Command Pilot, and Michael Collins Pilot, was successfully launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from the Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) Launch Complex 19 at 5:20 p.m. (EST), July 18, 1966, boosting the astronauts into a 187-by-99-mile elliptical orbit within fourteen minutes. An Atlas rocket carrying the Agena 10 was launched one hour and nineteen minutes earlier. Like the two previous Gemini flights, the Gemini X plan included rendezvous and docking with the separately launched Agena spacecraft which would boost Young and Collins to new heights upward to a record 475 mile altitude. At the time, it was the highest any humans had traveled. Additionally, this mission would be the first to include two spacewalks.
The command pilot for Gemini X was John Young, a veteran of the first mission in America's two-man spacecraft. A naval aviator, he would go on to fly to the moon twice, aboard Apollo 10 in 1969 and Young commanded the Apollo 16 lunar landing in 1972. He later was selected to command the first space shuttle mission in 1981 and the STS-9 flight in 1983. Pilot for Gemini X was Mike Collins, a U.S. Air Force test pilot. He went on to serve as command module pilot on Apollo 11 in 1969, remaining in lunar orbit as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon.
Condition Report:Excellent condition.
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[Gemini X] Extremely rare photomontage of the Titan rocket carrying John Young and Michael Collins to the highest Earth orbit hitherto reached by humans. NASA, 18 July 1966. Printed 1966. Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper. 20.3×25.4 cm (8×10 in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso.
The Gemini-Titan X spacecraft carrying astronauts John Young, Command Pilot, and Michael Collins Pilot, was successfully launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from the Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) Launch Complex 19 at 5:20 p.m. (EST), July 18, 1966, boosting the astronauts into a 187-by-99-mile elliptical orbit within fourteen minutes. An Atlas rocket carrying the Agena 10 was launched one hour and nineteen minutes earlier. Like the two previous Gemini flights, the Gemini X plan included rendezvous and docking with the separately launched Agena spacecraft which would boost Young and Collins to new heights upward to a record 475 mile altitude. At the time, it was the highest any humans had traveled. Additionally, this mission would be the first to include two spacewalks.
The command pilot for Gemini X was John Young, a veteran of the first mission in America's two-man spacecraft. A naval aviator, he would go on to fly to the moon twice, aboard Apollo 10 in 1969 and Young commanded the Apollo 16 lunar landing in 1972. He later was selected to command the first space shuttle mission in 1981 and the STS-9 flight in 1983. Pilot for Gemini X was Mike Collins, a U.S. Air Force test pilot. He went on to serve as command module pilot on Apollo 11 in 1969, remaining in lunar orbit as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon.
Condition Report:Excellent condition.
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