RARE NASA NUMBERED GLOSSY PHOTO OF MICHAEL COLLINS AS THE GEMINI 7 BACKUP PILOT (FIRST CREW ASSIGNMENT)

• A Very Rare Original NASA Numbered Glossy Photo Of Michael Collins Who Is Famously Known As The American Astronaut Who flew the Apollo 11 Command Module `Columbia` Around The Moon In 1969 While His Crewmates, Neil Armstrong And Buzz Aldrin, Made The First Crewed Landing On The Surface.
• This Photo Is From Michael Collins` First Ever Crew Assignment As The Backup Pilot For Gemini 7 In 1965, Four Years Before He Created History As The Command Module Pilot Of Apollo 11.
• Gemini 7 (Officially Gemini VII) Was A 1965 Crewed Spaceflight In NASA`s Gemini Program. It Was The Fourth Crewed Gemini Flight, The Twelfth Crewed American Spaceflight, And The Twenty-First Crewed Spaceflight Including Soviet Flights And X-15 Flights Above The Kármán Line.
• Selected As Part Of NASA`s Third Group Of 14 Astronauts In 1963, Collins Flew In Space Twice. His First Spaceflight Was On Gemini 10 In 1966, In Which He And Command Pilot John Young Performed Orbital Rendezvous With Two Spacecraft And Undertook Two Extravehicular Activities (EVAs, Also Known As Spacewalks). On The 1969 Apollo 11 Mission, He Became One Of 24 People To Fly To The Moon, Which He Orbited Thirty Times. He Was The Fourth Person (And Third American) To Perform A Spacewalk, The First Person To Have Performed More Than One Spacewalk, And, After Young, Who Flew The Command Module On Apollo 10, The Second Person To Orbit The Moon Alone.
• A Kodak Paper` Watermark On Verso
• Size: 254mm x 204mm
• Provenance: Acquired From A Private Collection In Henderson, Nevada, United States Then Henceforth Held In A Private Collection In Sydney, NSW, Australia
• Condition: In Excellent Condition, Commensurate With Age – Refer Images
• Accompanied By A BidSafe Certificate Of Authenticity (BidSafe Verification Number: 7217039-11) (SN:7217039-11) (307398-2)

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