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Vermot de Pas: Conquering Space, NASA's Photographic Icons

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Auction Name	Conquering Space, NASA's Photographic Icons	Total Sales (EUR)	17,728.00
Auction Date	July 21, 2025 - July 21, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	18,700.00
Sale Number	#168560	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	26,100.00
Total Lots	339
Sold Lots	36	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	175,700.00
% of Lots Sold	10.62%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	240,100.00
Unsold Lots	303	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	7.38%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
28	Successful historic spacewalk for American astronaut Ed White,	1965. Later print	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,036.80
101	Apollo 11 mission. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the lunar surface poses for astronaut Neil Armstrong, showing Neil Armstrong's silhouette in the reflection of Buzz Aldrin's visor	1969	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 960.00
55	Apollo 11 mission, July 16, 1969. A rare and magnificent view of the Earth	1969	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 640.00
335	DEEP SPACE. Magnificent photographs of the iconic "Pillars of Creation".		EUR 700.00 - 900.00	EUR 640.00
140	Planet Earth, 3rd planet of a star called the Sun. This photograph, nicknamed "Blue Marble", was taken by the crew of Apollo 17	1972. Later print	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 588.80
168	Extra-vehicular activity. Astronaut Dale Gardner uses the MMU to travel to the Westar VI satellite	1984	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 588.80
169	Astronaut Bruce McCandless II (Space Shuttle Mission STS 41-B) takes part in a historic spacewalk	1984	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 588.80
181	Planet Neptune.		EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 588.80
200	Rare. This superb global view of the surface of Venus is composed of mosaics of images from the Magellan space probe's synthetic aperture radar.	1991	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 588.80
256	Planet MARS. This fantastic "Orthographic View" of the planet MARS, ...was taken from 1000 photographs acquired by the VIKING ORBITER probe	1998	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 588.80
274	DEEP SPACE. A striking composite image of one of the universe's most popular sights: the Sombrero galaxy.	2003	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 588.80
280	Saturn planet. Cassini probe.		EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 588.80
288	Superb and historic photograph from the "BLUE MARBLE" series. Western Hemisphere.	2007	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 588.80
298	A fabulous galactic spectacle formed by the largest of spiral galaxies has a disk that is distorted into a rose shape ...	2010	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 588.80
307	A superb photograph of space shuttle ENDEAVOUR (Mission STS-134) shot from a NASA training aircraft	2011	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 588.80
316	Exceptional photograph of the planet SATURN taken by the CASSINI space probe	2013	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 588.80
320	Impressive observation of the sun and its extreme ultraviolet light.	2014	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 588.80
50	Rare. The 1st photograph of the Earth in its entirety taken by Humans in Space.	1968. Later print	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 576.00
51	Rare. First recolored Earth survey photographed on December 24,1968 by the crew of the APOLLO 8 Mission	1968. Later print	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 576.00
141	Superb photograph from APOLLO 16 of the far side of the Moon, whose many craters are shown here in perfect relief.	1972. Later print	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 576.00
310	Photographic mosaic of the Arctic Ocean. This phograph from the "BLUE MARBBLE" series	2012	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 576.00
4	Superb horizontal takeoff of a US Navy "REGULUS II" missile from its launch pad at EDWARDS AFB, California	1957	EUR 600.00 - 700.00	EUR 512.00
108	APOLLO 11 MISSION. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin in front of the lunar module "EAGLE" has just installed the solar wind measuring instrument		EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 486.40
115	Apollo 13 mission. Rare view of the Moon from the Apollo 13 mission.	1970	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 448.00
156	Voyager mission. This famous NASA photomontage depicts the planet Saturn and its major moons as discovered by the Voyager probe.	Circa 1980	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 448.00

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