North American Rockw: [The Moon]
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Cartographer:
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North American Rockw
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Title:
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[The Moon]
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Date:
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c. 1969
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Published:
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California
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Width:
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19 inches / 49 cm
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Height:
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13 inches / 34 cm
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Map ref:
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CELEST1145
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Description:
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Striking artist's impression pictorial map of the moon, surrounded by traditional-style decorative border and a basic version of NASA's Lunar Landing Mission diagram.
Around the moon, lines from President Kennedy's famous speech to Congress in May 1961:
"..No single space project in this period will be more exciting or more impressive to mankind or more important for the long-range exploration of space."
Produced by one of NASA's main aerospace contractors, North American Rockwell - responsible for the Apollo Command and Service Modules (the manned component of the Apollo program spacecraft, first used in 1966) and the Space Shuttle orbiter in 1980s (of which 6 were built in service between 1981-2011).
Printed colour. Backed on archival linen. Framed. [CELEST1145] |