NASA Interest, 1970s

A collection of 37 vintage press prints, image size 24.9 x19cm (or the reverse), sheet size 25.5 x24.5cm (or the reverse), each dated, typed captioned verso, with NASA's stamp verso, and Thomson Newspaper's stamp, featuring images from the Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 missions. Subjects include Astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt during a flight fit checkout and integration of the spacesuit; Astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly during an extravehicular activity, retrieving film from the cameras; a view of the crowd gathered for the liftoff of the Apollo 16, April 1972; Astronauts practicing taking lunar soil and rock samples during an EVA exercise; Commander Eugene Cernan participates in a spacecraft docking test, Apollo 17; Control Centre's Firing Room, during the CDDT; the back-up crew for the Apollo 16 Mission; Apollo 16 Pacific recovery mission; Astronaut Eugene Cernan stands near a lunar rock during the third Apollo 17 surfaces extravehicular activity at the Taurus-Littrow site; among others.