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[Gemini V] FEATURED IN LIFE, 'SO VAST, SO BEAUTIFUL, SO OVERPOWERING': Cape Kennedy from space Gordon Cooper or Pete Conrad, 21-29 August 1965
14 – 28 April 2025, 12:00 CEST
Paris, Avenue Hoche€400 - €600
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[Gemini V] FEATURED IN LIFE, 'SO VAST, SO BEAUTIFUL, SO OVERPOWERING': Cape Kennedy from space
Gordon Cooper or Pete Conrad, 21-29 August 1965
Printed 1965.
Vintage chromogenic print on fibre-based Kodak paper [NASA image S-65-45599].
With "A Kodak Paper" watermark on the reverse, numbered "NASA S-65-45599" in red in the top margin (issued by NASA Manned Spacecraft Centre, Houston, Texas).
20.3 x 25.4 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Historical context
[LIFE magazine caption for the photograph]
CAPE KENNEDY The Gemini 5 view of the world included this panorama of its embarkation point. As the spaceship moved east over the Atlantic, the astronauts could see the row of launching pads lining the beach where the cape just cast into the ocean. [...] Last week NASA released the most remarkable photographs of the Earth ever recorded, some taken from as high as 180 miles in Gemini V. To Conrad the spectacle that unfolded "was so vast, so beautiful and so overpowering that somehow man and all his problems seemed insignificant". He and Cooper documented their journey so precisely that earthbound man can take an unprecedented armchair tour through their photographs of the world he inhabits.
Printed 1965.
Vintage chromogenic print on fibre-based Kodak paper [NASA image S-65-45599].
With "A Kodak Paper" watermark on the reverse, numbered "NASA S-65-45599" in red in the top margin (issued by NASA Manned Spacecraft Centre, Houston, Texas).
20.3 x 25.4 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Historical context
[LIFE magazine caption for the photograph]
CAPE KENNEDY The Gemini 5 view of the world included this panorama of its embarkation point. As the spaceship moved east over the Atlantic, the astronauts could see the row of launching pads lining the beach where the cape just cast into the ocean. [...] Last week NASA released the most remarkable photographs of the Earth ever recorded, some taken from as high as 180 miles in Gemini V. To Conrad the spectacle that unfolded "was so vast, so beautiful and so overpowering that somehow man and all his problems seemed insignificant". He and Cooper documented their journey so precisely that earthbound man can take an unprecedented armchair tour through their photographs of the world he inhabits.
Footnotes
The on-board camera was a hand-held NASA-modified 70mm Hasselblad 500C with 80mm lens and MS Ektachrome thin base film, ASA 64 (Anscochrome D-50 film was also used during the mission).
Literature
LIFE magazine, 24 September 1965
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CLICK HERE: Gemini V Full Mission - Historical Narration & Footage, Conrad, Cooper, 1965, NASA, Long Duration
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