🎈🤩🤯 Look at the scale of it!! The first passive reflector communications satellite, Echo I, 1968 • Vintage silver gelatin print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm [NASA 68-H-110], caption on verso • [NASA caption] Gleaming Globe: The first passive reflector communications satellite, Echo I, an inflatable 100-foot globe of aluminium coated mylar plastic, covered more than a billion miles in its almost eight years in space. From its launch on 12 August, 1960 until its long career ended on 28 May, 1968, it was easily visible to the unaided eye over most of the Earth. Echo I is believed to have been seen by more people than any other man-made object. • #Echo1 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #NASA #science #history #space #exploration
👨‍🚀🚀🔭 To mark the forthcoming 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landings in July 1969 we're delighted to share news of our latest collection featuring many rare and unusual images. • Link in bio 🔝👀 • Missions include: Apollo 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17, Echo I, and Gemini 2 and 7, among many others. • Buzz Aldrin at the north footpad of the Lunar Module, Apollo 11, July 1969 Credit: Neil Armstrong Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA AS11-40-5902, caption on verso • [Caption] Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the moon near a leg of the Lunar Module during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera. The astronauts' boot prints are clearly visible in the foreground. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Columbia" in lunar orbit. • “We felt very comfortable. It was preferable to weightlessness and to the Earth’s gravity.” Neil Armstrong. • #Apollo11 #NeilArmstrong #BuzzAldrin #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #NASA #science #history
🚀🚀🚀 An iconic and dramatic launch view: Apollo 16 Ignition, April 1972 • Vintage chromogenic print, 20.4 x 25.5 cm NASA S-72-35340 • [NASA description] The crew members were John Young, commander, Ken Mattingly, Command Module pilot, and Charles Duke, Lunar Module pilot. The huge, 363-feet tall Apollo 16 (Spacecraft 113/Lunar Module 11/Saturn 510) space vehicle is launched from Pad A, launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (ksc), Florida, at 12:54:00.569 p.m.(EST), April 16, 1972, on a lunar landing mission. • #Apollo16 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #NASA #science #history
🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓 The far side of the Moon, Lunar Orbiter 5, August 1967 • Vintage gelatin silver print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm • [NASA 67-H-1103], caption on verso • [NASA description]One of the first wide angle views of the Moon's hidden side photographed by Lunar Orbiter V. This picture was made on August 6 and transmitted to NASA's Coldstone, California tracking station August 7. The lighted portion represents about one-fourth of the hidden side. The terminator or dividing line between sunlight and darkness lies in the region of 105 west longitude. Features on the surface as small as 1,500 feet across can be distinguished in the photograph. The picture is wide angle frame 6 of the Lunar Orbiter V series. Viewed with the edge data at the left, North is at the top. • #lunarorbiter #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #NASA #science #history
🌀🌀🌀 “It’s fun”, White reported, “I’m not coming in.” 😮 Ed White spacewalk, Gemini 4, June 1965 • Credit: James McDivitt Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA S65-30429, caption on verso • [Caption] Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot on the Gemini-Titan 4 space flight, is shown during his egress from the spacecraft. His face is covered by a shaded visor to protect him from the unfiltered rays of the sun. White became the first American Astronaut to walk in space. He remained outside the spacecraft for 21 minutes during the third revolution of the Gemini-4. He wears a specially designed space suit for the extravehicular activity. In his right hand (not shown) he carries a Hand-Held Self-Maneuvering Unit with which he controlled his movements while in space. He was attached to the spacecraft by a 25-ft umbilical line and a 23-ft tether lines, both wrapped together with gold tape to form one cord. He wears an emergency oxygen supply chest back. Astronaut James A. McDivitt is command pilot for the GT-4 mission. The mission was a four-day, 62 revolution flight, during which McDivitt and White performed a series of scientific and engineering experiments. • #Gemini4 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #NASA #science #history
🚨🛰💫 Now available online link in bio 🔝 • Apollo 14 Pacific Recovery Area, Apollo 14, February 1971 Vintage chromogenic print, 25.4 x 20.2 cm Caption on version • [Caption] The Apollo 14 spacecraft containing Astronauts Alan B. Shepherd, Jr., Stuart A. Roosa and Edgar D. Mitchell parachutes to a safe splashdown into the Pacific Ocean at 4:05 pm EST today, 780 nautical miles southeast of Samoa. • #Apollo14 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #NASA #science #rocket #marshallspaceflightcenter #history
🚀🌕🤩 Now available online!! Link in bio 🔝🔝🔝 • Rocket Testing Facility, Marshall Space Flight Center Vintage chromogenic print, 25.4 x 20.2 cm Stamp on verso • [NASA description] For more than 50 years, the unique capabilities and expertise at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center has been used to design and build the engines, vehicles, space systems, instruments and science payloads that make possible unprecedented missions of science and discovery throughout our solar system. Marshall minds designed, built, tested and helped launch the giant Saturn V rocket that carried astronauts on the Apollo missions to the Moon. Marshall developed new rocket engines and tanks for the fleet of space shuttles, built sections of the International Space Station and now manages all the science work of the astronauts aboard the ISS from a 24/7 Payload Operations Integration Center. • #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #NASA #science #rocket #marshallspaceflightcenter #history
⚡️⚡️⚡️ I hope everyone's seen 'First Man' by now?! What did you think about it if so? With such historic subject matter the film had a huge responsibility which I think it did justice to. It certainly helped to enliven my understanding of so many of the images we handle, one in particular being this image of Buzz standing next to the lunar module. • Buzz Aldrin at the north footpad of the Lunar Module, Apollo 11, July 1969 Credit: Neil Armstrong Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA AS11-40-5902, caption on verso • [Caption] Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the moon near a leg of the Lunar Module during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera. The astronauts' boot prints are clearly visible in the foreground. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Columbia" in lunar orbit. • “We felt very comfortable. It was preferable to weightlessness and to the Earth’s gravity.” Neil Armstrong. • #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
A stunning Apollo 11 view of Earth previously sold out but recently sourced for a private collector 🌍🌍🌍 • The Earth, centred on Arabia and Africa, seen on the way to the Moon Apollo 11, July 1969 Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA AS11-36-5355 • “It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” Neil Armstrong. • [NASA description] Most of Africa and portions of Europe and Asia can be seen in this spectacular photograph taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its trans-lunar coast toward the moon. Apollo 11, with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, on board was already 98,000 nautical miles from Earth when this picture was made. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Collins remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Columbia" in lunar orbit. • #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
🛰🔥🌔 More inspiring concept art: Voyager in the shadow of Jupiter! • Ken Hodges Artist’s concept design, Jupiter and satellite Voyager, October 1977 Vintage gelatin silver print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA/JPL 77-H-637, caption on verso • #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
🚀 Missed us?!⚡️ • We're back after a short insta break and to celebrate we're running a 🌀WEEKEND FLASH SALE with a 12% discount 🌀 on photographs and framing until Monday 1st October 6 pm UK time.🌀 • Use code HELLOAGAIN at the checkout! Happy shopping. • Landing on Mars, an artist’s concept design Viking, June 1976 Vintage gelatin silver print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA/JPL 76-H-440 • #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
🚀 Missed us?!⚡️ • We're back after a short insta break and to celebrate we're running a 🌀WEEKEND FLASH SALE with a 12% discount 🌀 on photographs and framing until Monday 1st October 6 pm UK time.🌀 • Use code HELLOAGAIN at the checkout! Happy shopping. • Here’s a work recently sold to a collector in America: Paul Rossi, Illustrator’s design for a rocket and spacecraft to Mars, 1960 Martin Marietta, Denver, engineers Vintage gelatin silver print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm Stamp numbered MBX00189 on verso, caption sheet • [Caption] Heading for Mars - an Air Force spaceship (foreground), accompanied by a tanker, moves through interplanetary space toward Mars in this concept by a Martin Company advanced design illustrator. In this phase of flight, propulsion is supplied by a series of ion engines. Launch from Earth would have used chemical or nuclear boosters. • #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
☀️☀️☀️ What a view! The illuminated Earth at a record-high altitude of 850 miles, Gemini 11, September 1966. • Credit: Richard Gordon Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA S-66-54706, caption on verso • [Caption] Western half of Australia, including the coastline from Perth to Port Darwin, looking west, as seen from the Gemini XI spacecraft during its 26th revolution of the Earth. Photograph was made while the spacecraft was at a record-high apogee of 740 nautical miles. Taken with a modified 70mm Hasselblad camera, using Eastman Kodak, Ektachrome, MS (S.O. 368 colour film). • Once docked with the Agena vehicle, the astronauts used its propulsion system to increase the apogee of their orbit to 850 miles (1,370 km), the highest Earth orbit ever reached by a manned spacecraft. • #Earth #1966 #Gemini #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
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🚀🚀🚀 One of our most dramatic launch photographs in a large format print. We can't get enough of the red machinery in the foreground. 🔥 • Gemini-Titan V Launch, Gemini V, August 1965 (Large Format) Large format vintage chromogenic print, 35.6 x 28.2 cm [NASA negative number S-65-46437] • [NASA description] Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles "Pete" Conrad was the third crewed Earth-orbiting spacecraft of the Gemini series. The flight was designed to last eight days and test rendezvous procedures. The major objectives of this mission were to demonstrate a long-duration crewed flight, evaluate the effects of long periods of weightlessness on the crew, and test rendezvous capabilities and manoeuvres using a rendezvous evaluation pod. Secondary objectives included demonstration of all phases of guidance and control systems to support rendezvous and controlled re-entry guidance, to evaluate the fuel cell power system and rendezvous radar, to test the capability of either pilot to manoeuvre the spacecraft in orbit to close proximity with another object, and to conduct 17 experiments. • #Launch #Gemini #1965 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
🌘🌀🌎 SOLD! And on its way to a new home. • Earthrise above the lunar horizon, Apollo 8, December 1968 Vintage chromogenic print, 25.4 x 20.3 cm NASA AS8-14-2392 • High-oblique view of the moon's surface showing Earth rising above the lunar horizon, looking west-southwest, as photographed from the Apollo 8 spacecraft as it orbited the moon. The center of the picture is located at about 105 degrees east longitude and 13 degrees south latitude. The lunar surface probably has less pronounced color than indicated by this print. • “I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape… it makes us realise that we all do exist on one small globe. For from 230,000 miles away it really is a small planet.” Frank Borman • #Apollo8 #Moon #Earth #1968 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
⚡️⚡️⚡️Close-up view of Saturn’s Rings as seen by Voyager 1, November 1980. • Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm Caption on verso • [Caption] This view of Saturn’s rings shows the reversal of brightness of the major features in the rings when viewed from the unilluminated side – a perspective seen by Voyager 1 on November 12, 1980 at a range of 717,000 kilometres (444,000 miles). The C-ring and material in the Cassini Division (nearly white in this exaggerated colour image) are bright while the B-ring is now dark (shown here as reddish-brown). • NASA launched the two Voyager spacecraft to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in the late summer of 1977. Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter occurred March 5, 1979. Voyager 2's closest approach was July 9, 1979. The Voyager 1 and 2 Saturn encounters occurred nine months apart, in November 1980 and August 1981. Voyager 1 is leaving the solar system. Voyager 2 completed its encounter with Uranus in January 1986 and with Neptune in August 1989, and is now also en-route out of the solar system. • #Voyager #Voyager1 #Voyager2 #Saturn #1980 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
🛰🛰🛰 [NASA description] With this mission, NASA successfully completed its first rendezvous of two spacecraft. This photograph of the NASA Gemini VII spacecraft was taken through the hatch window of the Gemini VI spacecraft during rendezvous and staion keeping maneuvres at an altitude of approximately 160 miles on December 15, 1965. The photograph was taken using Kodak SO 217 film with an ASA of 64. The Gemini VI crew of Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford made rendezvous with the orbiting Gemini VII less than six hours after launch and flew within inches of the spacecraft housing Jim Lovell and Frank Borman. • Thomas Stafford, Gemini 7, close-up view Gemini 6 & 7, December 1965 Credit: Thomas Stafford Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA S65-63194 • #Gemini #1965 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
🛰🌎🌑 “As I reached for my Hasselblad, suddenly the Earth popped up over the horizon. I could not have staged it any better, but the alignment was not of my doing. But at any rate, as I clicked away, I realised for the first time, in one frame, appeared three billion earthlings, two explorers, and one moon. The photographer, of course, was discretely out of view.” M. Collins. • The Lunar Module returning from the Moon for rendezvous, Earthrise beyond, Apollo 11, July 1969 Credit: Michael Collins Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA AS11-44-6642, caption on verso • [NASA description] The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage is photographed from the Command and Service Modules during rendezvous in lunar orbit. The LM, with Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Commander, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, was making its docking approach to the CSM. Armstrong and Aldrin were returning from the lunar surface. Astronaut Michael Collins remained with the CSM while the other two Apollo 11 crewmen explored the Moon. The LM descent stage, used as a launch base, was left on the lunar surface. The large, dark coloured area in the background is Smyth’s Sea, centred at 85 degrees east longitude and 2 degrees south latitude on the lunar nearside. This view is looking west. The Earth rises above the lunar horizon. • #Apollo11 #Earthrise #Moon #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
🌋🌋🌋 The discovery of active volcanism on Jupiter's moon Io was one of the biggest surprises of the Voyager missions. Seen here blooming above the outline of Moon's surface, it was the first time active volcanoes had been seen on another body in the solar system. It appears that activity on Io affects the entire Jovian system. Io appears to be the primary source of matter that pervades the Jovian magnetosphere, the region of space that surrounds the planet, primarily influenced by the planet's strong magnetic field. Sulphur, oxygen, and sodium, apparently erupted by Io's volcanoes and sputtered off the surface by impact of high-energy particles, were detected at the outer edge of the magnetosphere. • Eruption on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, Voyager 1, January 1979 Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm • [NASA description] NASA launched the two Voyager spacecraft to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in the late summer of 1977. Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter occurred March 5, 1979. Voyager 2's closest approach was July 9, 1979. • #Voyager #Voyager1 #Voyager2 #Jupiter #Io #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History