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Luna 20 and Luna 21: Amazing Panoramic Glossy Photos
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Soviet Missions Luna 20 and Luna 21: Amazing (11) Panoramic Glossy Photos taken on the Lunar Surface, with Russian Press Captions, from the Collection of Oleg Ivanovsky. Multiple glossy B&W photo panels of approximately 10" x 7" taped together into panoramic views- one is from Luna 20 from 1972.
(HA11102017A5500) Price is for one Panoramic picture
(HA11102017A5500) Price is for one Panoramic picture
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Ten are from Luna 21, which, on January 15, 1973, landed on the lunar surface and deployed the lunar rover Lunokhod 2.For nearly four months, the rover explored the moon, covering more than twenty-three miles, sending back thousands of individual photos and eighty-six panoramas like these from its three cameras. The lander was known to carry a bas-relief of Vladimir Lenin and a Soviet State Emblem. Both are visible in certain of these images. All are captioned with detailed pastedowns in Russian (one handwritten). These were Ivanovsky's personal copies; he was the director for the Sputnik, Luna, Vostok 1, and Lunokhod programs. Interestingly, Richard Garriott, son of the Skylab and Shuttle Astronaut Owen K. Garriott, actually owns both Luna 21 and Lunokhod 2 where they sit on the moon. Some tape loose, overall fine.
Oleg Genrikhovich Ivanovsky
(Russian: Оле́г Ге́нрихович Ивано́вский; January 18, 1922 – September 18, 2014) was a Soviet engineer, and pioneer of spacecraft construction.
Ivanovsky graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1953. Designer-General Sergei Korolev recruited him into the Soviet space program. Ivanovsky rose to chief designer at OKB-1, Korolev's design bureau. Among other things he was deputy principal designer of the first and second Sputniks, principal designer of Vostok manned spaceships, and creator of space probes. Ivanovsky personally helped Yuri Gagarin mount the gantry and climb into Vostok 1 and helped rebolt the hatch after Gagarin complained that it had not been closed and sealed correctly. He was said to be the last person to shake Gagarin's hand before the Vostok 1 flight. Ivanovsky was the Recipient of the Lenin Prize (1960) and USSR State Prize