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Panorama Photograph of the Moon Surface, Luna 9, USSR, 1966

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:400.00 EUR Estimated At:640.00 - 800.00 EUR
Panorama Photograph of the Moon Surface, Luna 9, USSR, 1966
Black and white photograph
Soviet Union, 1966
Mission: Luna 9
Dedication inside the lid in Russian ‘respectfully Peter Fedorovich Schulgin for his 50th birthday by his closest friends and comrades of the joint task’
34 signatures by congratulants
On a photograph on the first page inscribed ‘The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’
Dimensions: 241.5 x 16.5 cm (photograph); 36 x 17.3 cm (album)
Provenance: Collection Andora, Germany
This is not only one of the first original photographs of the surface of the moon from 1966, but also a rare edition with 34 signatures by important personalities of the early history of Soviet aerospace
This is a 241.5 x 16.5 cm large panorama photograph of the surface of the moon, comprised of six photographs in a foldout album. The album cover depicts the robotic spacecraft Luna 9, which in the history of aerospace achieved the first soft landing on the moon on February 3, 1966. The mission of the Luna program was to measure the radiation on the moon surface and to send panoramas of the moon surface back to earth. In the race between the USSR and the United States, the USSR clearly won on this first soft landing of Luna 9 on the moon. The album, which was officially issues by the USSR, dates to October 19, 1966 and is signed by the participants of the mission.



The photograph is in good condition. The album is in a used state, but the signatures are still well legible. On the lower margin of the album pages (not on the photograph) are color splashes, which might be intended. The dimensions of the album are 36 x 17.3 cm.
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