fme_678290 - CONQUEST SPACE - SPACE EXPLORATION Médaille, Apollo VIII
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Type : Médaille, Apollo VIII
Date: 1970
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 67,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 195,25 g.
Edge : lisse + 1970 + corne BRONZE
Puncheon : corne BRONZE
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène, des concrétions vertes au revers. Présence de quelques coups et rayures
Obverse
Obverse legend : APOLLO VIII // BORMAN / LOVELL / ANDERS.
Obverse description : Bustes accolés en tenue de cosmonaute, signé : BERNARD LABORIE.
Reverse
Reverse legend : PREMIER VOYAGE CIRCUMLUNAIRE / NOEL 1968.
Reverse description : Navette proche de la Lune, vue sur la Terre à l’arrière plan.
Commentary
Cf. Un commentaire sur la médaille : https://medaille.hypotheses.org/479.
Historical background
CONQUEST SPACE - SPACE EXPLORATION
from 1944
The exploration of space, sometimes called the conquest of space, consists of the physical exploration of space, that is to say of all objects outside the Earth. The exploration of the solar system constitutes the first stage, one of the major events of the second half of the 20th century on the scientific level, but also more broadly for our societies, by the prodigious expansion of this new frontier..
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