"Gemini IV – Spacecraft Launch - Lot 69

"Gemini IV – Spacecraft Launch June 1965 A spectacular photograph of the launch of the Gemini IV mission, which took off on June 3, 1965, from Launch Complex 19 at Cape Canaveral aboard a Titan II rocket. On board, astronauts James McDivitt and Edward H. White II embarked on a historic four-day mission, marked by the first American spacewalk performed by White on June 3, 1965. This vintage chromogenic print, produced on pearl-finish photographic paper and mounted on stiff cardboard, reflects the dissemination methods used by NASA in the mid-1960s for its communications and documentation services. Prints of this type were intended for institutional, scientific, or media use and are now sought-after physical artifacts from the early days of the American space program. Vintage chromogenic print on pearl-textured paper, mounted on stiff cardboard. Dimensions: 24.6 × 19.8 cm (including margins)."