Description: Apollo 7 Vintage NASA "Red Number" Color Photo, Image AS7-3-1544: Print of Apollo 7 S-IVB rocket stage in Earth orbit on October 11, 1968. The photograph was taken as the crew practices rendezvous techniques that would be needed for the later lunar flights. Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island, Florida, can be seen beyond the left side of the lower end of the S-IVB. The mission was launched from Pad 34 at Cape Canaveral. The mission was launched from Pad 34 at Cape Canaveral. The S-IVB stage was used as a second stage for Saturn IB launches and as the third stage for Saturn V launches. On Saturn V flights the four Spacecraft/LM Adapter panels would be jettisoned to allow access to the Lunar Module,A vintage chromogenic 10" x 8" print of of Apollo 7 S-IVB rocket stage in Earth orbit on October 11,1968, on Kodak fiber-based paper bearing the "Paper Manufactured by Kodak" watermark on the verso. “This paper manufactured by Kodak” watermark faint. It is repeated diagonally across the paper. Numbered NASA Photo AS7-3-1544 from late Dick Underwood collection.The photo has overall even toning on verso and the fades to red, which is very common with the photos from this period, a factor due in great part to the humidity and heat in Houston. Richard “Dick” Underwood (1927-2011) was chief engineer on the production of the first topographic maps of the moon. He was the first person to view every photograph from the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and the first 23 space shuttle missions.He also provided technical training to every astronaut who went in to space in the 20th century.Combine shipping is available. Please ask.
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Location: North York, Ontario
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