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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The astronauts departing for the Moon (diptych), NASA [Apollo 12], 14 November 1969

printed 1969
vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper 8 h × 10 w in (20 × 25 cm)
estimate: $700–1,000
result: $32
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“Our second journey to the Moon opened the new age of extraterrestrial scientific exploration by man." —NASA administrator Thomas Paine
Numbered to verso of each photo '69-H-1832' and '69-H-1856' with NASA KSC captions.

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“Our second journey to the Moon opened the new age of extraterrestrial scientific exploration by man. Going beyond Apollo 11, which demonstrated to an eager world that astronauts can set foot on a celestial body and return safely to Earth, Apollo 12 concentrated on a systematic scientific sampling designed to help unlock some secrets of the solar system’s origin and early history.”

—NASA administrator Thomas Paine (NASA SP-235)

Kennedy Space Center, Florida
 Apollo 12 Commander Charles Conrad Jr. waves to well-wishers as he and ; astronauts Richard F. Gordon Jr., center, Command Module Pilot, and Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module Pilot leave the Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) Manned Spacecraft Operations Building. They boarded a transfer van for the brief ride to Launch Complex  39A, where they entered their 363-foot-high Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle at the start of the Nation’s second manned lunar landing mission. [NASA caption]

Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Aided by technicians, an Apollo 12 astronaut enters the spacecraft from the white room at Launch Complex 39A. The three space pilots were launched on the Nation’s second manned lunar landing mission. [NASA caption]

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