One Giant Leap for Mankind: Vintage Photographs from the Victor Martin-Malburet Collection 
28 October 2022
One Giant Leap for Mankind: Vintage Photographs from the Victor Martin-Malburet Collection 
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Launch of the first manned mission to another world, NASA [Apollo 8], 21 December 1968

printed 1969
vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper 10 h × 8 w in (25 × 20 cm)
estimate: $1,200–1,800
result: $650
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Apollo 8 marked the extraordinary moment in history when humans truly left their home planet for the first time.
Numbered to upper margin 'NASA S-69-15547' with NASA MSC caption and 'A Kodak Paper' watermarks to verso.

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The Apollo 8 (Spacecraft 103/Saturn 503) space vehicle was launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), at 7:51 a.m. (EST), Dec. 21, 1968. Trailing an immense column of flame, the mighty Apollo 8 Saturn V speeded out of the atmosphere, next stop the Moon. It was the first manned flight of the Saturn V and first manned flight to the Moon.

“The Saturn V was an enormous machine. And the size of the engines?! [...] I think I felt that more going up the morning of the launch. Because it was so quiet, nobody around it. [...] I don’t want to say awe, a combination of admiration_yeah, maybe awe. Wonderment.”

—Frank Borman (Chaikin, Voices, pg. 20)

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