Their Last Countdown 1967

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Item title reads - Their last countdown.

Last pictures of Ed White, Virgil Grissom and Roger Chaffee before they lost their lives in a fire. Cape Kennedy, America (USA).

Technicolor.

Various shots of the Apollo rocket capsule being towed to the launching pad. M/S sign "Saturn...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
56056
Sort Number:
67/010
Time in/Out:
01:42:39:00 / 01:46:17:00
Canister:
67/10
Film ID:
2017.34
Issue Date:
02/02/1967

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