Description: PRINTS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHS MANUSCRIPTS CURIOSITIES - INCLUDING AN EARLY 'SPACE SHUTTLE' -AMERICAN SPACE CONCEPT ART (started to flourish in the late 1950s and 1960s, promoted by NASA and other American government agencies, as a way of graphically and realistically representing plans for the development of satellites and space craft, and of illustrating man's ambitions of venturing to the Moon and beyond).Five original vintage photographs of space concept artwork, issued by the U. S. Department of Defense between 1963 and 1966. B/w gelatin silver prints on fibre-based photographic paper. Four published by the U.S. Air Force and one by the U.S. Navy. Three with purple mimeographed captions printed on the rear, and two with purple mimeographed captions affixed to the rear separately. One dated 1963, another dated 1966, and the other three undated but from the same period. Very Good condition. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.1. 'An SV-5, 'manoeuvrable lifting body reentry vehicle streaks back into the atmosphere at 17,500 miles per hour...' 2. 'Model of SV-5 lifting body spacecraft Martin Company will build...'3. 'An Air Force Titan III-C rocket placed eight satellites into orbit about 21,000 miles from the Equator yesterday.'4. 'Gravity stabilisation system...'5. 'The USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory and a modified Gemini capsule...' key words:
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Non-Fiction Subject: Mathematics & Sciences
Year Printed: 1963
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Original/Reproduction: Original
Region: North America
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Publisher: U.S. Air Force, Dept. of Defense
Place of Publication: Washington, D.C.
Special Attributes: Illustrated
