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Auction Name: Conquering Space, NASA's Photographic Icons
Auction Date: 07/21/2025 - 07/21/2025
Sale Number: #168560
Total Lots: 339
Sold Lots: 36
Lots Sold: 10.62%
Unsold Lots: 303

Total Sales (EUR): 17,728.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 18,700.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 26,100.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 175,700.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 240,100.00
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
335	DEEP SPACE. Magnificent photographs of the iconic "Pillars of Creation".		EUR 700.00 - 900.00	EUR 640.00
55	Apollo 11 mission, July 16, 1969. A rare and magnificent view of the Earth	1969	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 640.00
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
320	Impressive observation of the sun and its extreme ultraviolet light.	2014	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
181	Planet Neptune.		EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 588.80
280	Saturn planet. Cassini probe.		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
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
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
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
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
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
288	Superb and historic photograph from the "BLUE MARBLE" series. Western Hemisphere.	2007	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
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
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
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

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