g_v_c_o_AKP (lg frmt, unnumbered, 62-Gemini-65 & S-62-4677 near eq, S-64-27307 eq)
“Docking in Space--Artist’s concept of rendezvous of the Gemini spacecraft and the Agena vehicle. They latch together as a result of visual observation by the Gemini astronauts.”
11” x 13.875”.
The above is the ‘verbatim’ caption from the official 1964 reissue (I presume) of the original 1962 (I presume) photograph. Alrighty then, clear as mud.
Yet again, I set myself up for disappointment. I was sure I’d readily find this at multiple “space” sites, miraculously, maybe even at a NASA website. Using logical keywords like ‘Gemini’, ‘Agena’, ‘concept’, in varying combinations – nothing. I even rotated the image, both clockwise & counter-clockwise – nothing.
I know for a fact that I’ve seen this multiple - many actually - times over the course of my life. I consider(ed)? It to be (yes, in MY world) an iconic Gemini/Gemini-Agena artist’s concept. Maybe it was primarily as part of/within documents, manuals, presentations, etc. Who knows.
However, John Sisson’s wonderful “Dreams of Space – Books and Ephemera” website did have the image:
Specifically:
As did, unexpectedly:
www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/index-1965-13.html
Credit: DER SPIEGEL website
And BOTH correctly oriented!
More/most importantly, through a minor miracle, the ‘framing’ of the image includes/retains the signature of the artist – Mr. Arnold Pierce. IMHO, a spectacular WIN. Which, by extrapolation, enabled attribution of at least one other work, linked below.
g_v_c_o_AKP (lg frmt, unnumbered, 62-Gemini-65 & S-62-4677 near eq, S-64-27307 eq)
“Docking in Space--Artist’s concept of rendezvous of the Gemini spacecraft and the Agena vehicle. They latch together as a result of visual observation by the Gemini astronauts.”
11” x 13.875”.
The above is the ‘verbatim’ caption from the official 1964 reissue (I presume) of the original 1962 (I presume) photograph. Alrighty then, clear as mud.
Yet again, I set myself up for disappointment. I was sure I’d readily find this at multiple “space” sites, miraculously, maybe even at a NASA website. Using logical keywords like ‘Gemini’, ‘Agena’, ‘concept’, in varying combinations – nothing. I even rotated the image, both clockwise & counter-clockwise – nothing.
I know for a fact that I’ve seen this multiple - many actually - times over the course of my life. I consider(ed)? It to be (yes, in MY world) an iconic Gemini/Gemini-Agena artist’s concept. Maybe it was primarily as part of/within documents, manuals, presentations, etc. Who knows.
However, John Sisson’s wonderful “Dreams of Space – Books and Ephemera” website did have the image:
Specifically:
As did, unexpectedly:
www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/index-1965-13.html
Credit: DER SPIEGEL website
And BOTH correctly oriented!
More/most importantly, through a minor miracle, the ‘framing’ of the image includes/retains the signature of the artist – Mr. Arnold Pierce. IMHO, a spectacular WIN. Which, by extrapolation, enabled attribution of at least one other work, linked below.