🌀🌀🌀 Ed White walking in space over the Gulf of Mexico, Gemini 4, June 1965 • Credit: James McDivitt Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA S65-30429, caption on verso • “It’s fun”, White reported, “I’m not coming in.” • [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. • #geminiprogram #space #history #spacewalk #spaceexploration #apollo11 #astronaut
🥶🥶🥶 Love the reflection of Earth in his visor • Russell Schweickart’s spacewalk, Apollo 9, March 1969 (Large Format) • Credit: David Scott Large format vintage chromogenic print, 35.5 x 27.8 cm [NASA negative number AS9-19-2994] • [NASA description] Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, is photographed from the Command Module (CM) Gumdrop during his extravehicular activity (EVA) on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission. He holds, in his right hand, a thermal sample which he is retrieving from the Lunar Module (LM) exterior. The Command and Service Modules (CSM) and LM Spider are docked. Schweickart, wearing an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), is standing in ‘golden slippers’ on the LM porch. Visible on his back are the Portable Life Support System (PLSS) and Oxygen Purge System (OPS). Taken by David Scott while he was standing in the CM with the hatch open (as seen in AS9-20-3064). The two photographed each other outside the spacecraft. • #apollo9 #apollo11anniversary #spacewalk #eva #earth #space #history #spaceexploration
🛰🛰🛰 Michael Collins, Gemini 10 spacecraft docked with the Agena, July 1966 • Credit: Michael Collins Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA S-66-46144 • [NASA description]The Gemini-10 spacecraft is successfully docked with the Agena Target Docking Vehicle 5005. The Agena display panel is clearly visible. After docking with the Agena, astronauts John W. Young, command pilot, and Michael Collins, pilot, fired the 16,000-pound thrust engine of Agena-10's primary propulsion system to boost the combined vehicles into an orbit with an apogee of 413 nautical miles to set a new altitude record for manned spaceflight. They also managed to meet with the dormant, drifting Agena from the aborted Gemini 8 flight, thus executing the programme's first double rendezvous. • #michaelcollins #gemini10 #apollo11 #apollo11anniversary #space #history #spaceexploration
🤯🤯🤯 Earthrise, the first ever witnessed by human eyes, Apollo 8, December 1968 • Credit: William Anders Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm [NASA AS8-14-2383] • William Anders spoke the words from Genesis as the photograph was taken: In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth, And the Earth was without form, and Void... • [Caption] The rising Earth is about five degrees above the lunar horizon in this telephoto view taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft near 110 degrees east longitude. The horizon, about 570 kilometres (350 statue miles) from the spacecraft, is near the eastern limb of the moon as viewed from the Earth. Width of view at the horizon is about 150 kilometres (95 statute miles). On Earth the sunset terminator crosses Africa. The south pole is in the white area near the left end of the terminator. North and South America are under clouds. The lunar surface probably has less pronounced colour than indicated in this print. • The celebrated view of planet Earth appearing over the bleached lunar horizon. 'There was nothing in the plan for an Earthrise photo. Indeed, we didn’t even see an actual Earthrise until, on our third orbit, we changed the spacecraft’s orientation to heads up and looking forward. As we came round the back side of the moon, where I had been taking pictures of craters near our orbital track, I looked up and saw the startlingly beautiful sight of our home planet “rising” up above the stark and battered lunar horizon. It was the only color against the deep blackness of space. In short, it was beautiful, and clearly delicate.' William Anders. • #apollo11anniversary #apollo11 #apollo8 #earthrise #neilarmstrong #space #spaceexploration #history
John Young at the Descartes landing site, EVA 1, Apollo 16, April 1972 • Credit: Charles Duke Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA AS16-114-18388 • “That blackness you see in those photographs is just black black. You feel like you can go over there and it’s a black velvet screen – it’s just a backdrop for this stage deal we did. So that’s the feeling of space, that you can reach out and touch it. And yet there’s nothing there.” Charles Duke • [NASA description] Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, stands at the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) deployment site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity (EVA-1) at the Descartes landing site. The components of the ALSEP are in the background. The lunar surface drill is just behind and to the right of astronaut Young. The drill's rack and bore stems are to the left. The three-sensor Lunar Surface Magnetometer is beyond the rack. The dark object in the right background is the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG). Between the RTG and the drill is the Heat Flow Experiment. A part of the Central Station is at the right centre edge of the picture. This photograph was taken by astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot. • #apollo11 #apollo11anniversary #buzzaldrin #neilarmstrong #history #spaceexploration #moon #nasa #apollo16
🛰🛰🛰 The ascent stage of the Lunar Module returning from the Moon, Apollo 17, December 1972 (Large Format) • Credit: Ronald Evans Large format vintage chromogenic print, 35.5 x 27.8 cm [NASA negative number AS17-149-22857] • [NASA description] This is the last photograph of a spacecraft orbiting the Moon. The Lunar Module descent stage was used as a launch platform and remains on the Moon. At its foot the crew left a letter which read: ‘Here man ended his exploration of the Moon, December 1972. May the spirit of peace, in the name of which we came here, reflect upon the life of all mankind.’ • This 70mm view shows the Lunar Module (LM) Challenger in lunar orbit before rendezvous with the Apollo 17 Command and Service Modules (CSM). While astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, commander, and Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot, descended in the Challenger to explore the Taurus-Littrow region of the moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with the CSM America in lunar orbit. • #apollo11 #apollo11anniversary #buzzaldrin #neilarmstrong #history #spaceexploration #moon #nasa #apollo17
🚀🚀🚀 Lift-off of Apollo 15, August 1971 • Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA S-71-41356, caption on verso • [NASA description]The huge, 363 foot tall Apollo 15 (Spacecraft 112/Lunar Module 10/Saturn 510) space vehicle is launched free from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, at 9.34 am (EDT), July 26, 1971, on a lunar landing mission. Aboard the Apollo 15 spacecraft were astronauts David R. Scott, commander; Alfred M. Worden, command module pilot; and James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot. Apollo 15 was NASA's fourth manned lunar landing mission. Apollo 15 was the first of the Apollo "J" missions capable of a longer stay time on the moon and greater surface mobility. There were four primary objectives falling in the general categories of lunar surface science, lunar orbital science and engineering-operational. The mission objectives were to explore the Hadley-Apennine region, set up and activate lunar surface scientific experiments, make engineering evaluations of new Apollo equipment, and conduct lunar orbital experiments and photographic tasks. • #apollo15 #rocketlaunch #space #spaceexploration #history #nasa #1971
🌀🌀🌀 Aldrin’s boot on the lunar soil, Apollo 11, July 1969 • Credit: Buzz Aldrin Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA AS11-40-5880, caption on verso • [NASA description] This now famous image was taken to provide a visual record of the relative density of the surface in a “soil mechanics test”. “I felt buoyant and full of goose pimples when I stepped down on the surface. I immediately looked down at my feet and became intrigued with the peculiar properties of the lunar dust.” Buzz Aldrin. • #apollo11 #apollo11anniversary #buzzaldrin #neilarmstrong #history #spaceexploration #moon #nasa
🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓 Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin’s gold-plated visor reflects Armstrong and the Lunar Module Apollo 11, July 1969 • Credit: Neil Armstrong Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA AS11-40-5903, caption on verso • The most iconic image from the Space Race era. • “As I walked away from the Eagle lunar module, Neil said, "Hold it, Buzz." So I stopped and turned around, and then he took what has become know as the “Visor” photo. I like this photo because it captures the moment of a solitary figure against the horizon of the moon, along with a reflection in my helmet’s visor of our home away from home, the Eagle, and of Neil snapping the photo.” Buzz Aldrin • [NASA description] Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the moon near the leg of the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera. 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. •
⚡️⚡️⚡️ Buzz Aldrin steps down from the Lunar Module, Apollo 11, July 1969 • Credit: Neil Armstrong Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA AS11-40-5868 • [NASA description] Aldrin followed Armstrong out of the LM about 15 minutes later, and for another two hours and 47 minutes they explored where no man had walked before. “When I stepped down onto the surface and felt each movement carried by the slow-motion sensation of one-sixth gravity, I spontaneously exclaimed, “Magnificent desolation”. Buzz Aldrin. This picture was taken by astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, with a 70 mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity. • Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, descends the steps of the Lunar Module (LM) ladder as he prepares to walk on the moon. He had just egressed the LM. This photograph was taken by astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). While Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the LM "Eagle" to explore the moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit. • #apollo11 #apollo11anniversary #buzzaldrin #neilarmstrong #history #spaceexploration #moon #nasa
🌖🌍🚀 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. • #apollo11 #apollo11anniversary #space #spaceexploration #history #nasa #neilarmstrong #buzzaldrin
🌎🌍🌏 View of the Earth seen from 10,000 miles on the outward journey, Apollo 11, July 1969 • Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA AS11-36-5337, caption on verso • [Caption] This view of Earth showing clouds over its surface was photographed from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its trans-lunar journey toward the Moon. The spacecraft was already about 10,000 nautical miles from Earth when this picture was taken. Portions of the land mass of North America and Central America can be seen. Aboard Apollo 11 were astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. • “The world of the 1970s will be vastly different from the world of the 1960s, and many of the changes in it will result directly from the new perspective that we have suddenly acquired. By heeding the lessons learned in the last decade, and attacking our many problems with the same spirit, determination, and skill with which we have ventured into space, we can make “this island Earth” a better planet on which to live.” George M. Low, NASA Administrator, October 1970. • #apollo11 #apollo11anniversary #history #space #spaceexploration #nasa
🚀🚀🚀 A seminal and iconic image of the Apollo 11 lift off to the moon, making Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin the first humans to step foot on a celestial body beyond Earth. ⚡️ • Apollo 11 lift-off seen from the top of the launch gantry, Apollo 11, July 1969 Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm [NASA S-69-39961] • The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961: perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth. Additional flight objectives included scientific exploration by the lunar module, or LM, crew; deployment of a television camera to transmit signals to Earth; and deployment of a solar wind composition experiment, seismic experiment package and a Laser Ranging Retroreflector. During the exploration, the two astronauts were to gather samples of lunar-surface materials for return to Earth. They also were to extensively photograph the lunar terrain, the deployed scientific equipment, the LM spacecraft, and each other, both with still and motion picture cameras. This was to be the last Apollo mission to fly a "free-return" trajectory, which would enable a return to Earth with no engine firing, providing a ready abort of the mission at any time prior to lunar orbit insertion. • #Apollo11 #Launch #1969 #BuzzAldrin #vintageNASAphotographs #exhibition #newexhibition #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #TEDX #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #Hasselblad #History
🚀🚀🚀 Launch of the Space Shuttle STS-1, Columbia, 12 April 1981 First launch of the Space Shuttle Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm • [NASA caption] A new era in space flight began on April 12, 1981, when Space Shuttle Columbia, or STS-1, soared into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. • Astronaut John Young, a veteran of four previous spaceflights including a walk on the moon in 1972, commanded the mission. Navy test pilot Bob Crippen piloted the mission and would go on to command three future shuttle missions. The shuttle was humankind's first re-usable spacecraft. The orbiter would launch like a rocket and land like a plane. The two solid rocket boosters that helped push them into space would also be re-used, after being recovered in the ocean. Only the massive external fuel tank would burn up as it fell back to Earth. It was all known as the Space Transportation System. • #SpaceShuttleColumbia #SpaceShuttle #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #NASA #science #history #space #exploration
📸👨‍🚀🌖 Charles Duke at the rim of Plum Crater, Apollo 16, EVA 1, April 1972 • Credit: John Young Apollo 16, April 1972 Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA AS16-114-18423 • John Young’s photographs of the lunar landscape convey the human dimension of space travel in an exceptionally personal way. • “It was probably the most hostile environment I’d ever been in, in a flying situation. And yet I felt more at peace and more serene… You didn’t feel fearful of the hostile environment… There was a serenity and a peacefulness about the Moon.” Charles Duke • #Apollo16 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #NASA #science #history #space #exploration
🌀🌀🌀 The first ever untethered EVA by Bruce McCandless, Challenger, February 1984 • Vintage chromogenic prints, 20.2 x 25.4 cm • On this mission the first untethered space walks were carried out by McCandless and Stewart, using the manned maneuvering unit. • #spaceshuttle #spaceshuttlechallenger Challenger #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #NASA #science #history #space #exploration
⚙️⛓🔩 Saturn 506/CSM 107, Apollo 11, move from Chamber “L” work stand • Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA S-69-30539 • #Apollo11 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #NASA #science #history #space #exploration
🛰🛰🛰 Reflections of the Sun over Gemini 7’s gold-sprayed thermal cloth, Gemini 6, December 1965 • Credit: Thomas Stafford Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA S-65-63123 • The orbital rendezvous was a difficult and exacting process but essential to allow the Apollo programme to make it to the Moon and back. Gemini VI and VII were manoeuvred, as Schirra put it, “window to window and nose to nose”, close enough to wave to each other through the portholes and read Schirra’s “Beat Army” sign meant in jest for Borman, the sole West Point man among the three Navy pilots of the two spacecraft. • #Gemini6 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #NASA #science #history #space #exploration
🌖👨‍🚀🌔 Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., shades his eyes from the sun during an EVA, Apollo 14, February 1971 • Credit: Edgar D. Mitchell Vintage chromogenic print, 25.4 x 20.2 cm [NASA AS14-66-9230], caption on verso • Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander, holds his right glove over his helmet visor as if to shade his eyes from the brilliant sun. This photo was taken by astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, through the window of the Lunar Module (LM). Shepard and Mitchell descended in the LM to explore the moon, while astronaut Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit. This photograph was taken during the first of two extravehicular activities (EVA). • #Apollo14 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #NASA #science #history #space #exploration
📡⚙️🚀 NASA Tracking Station, Kauai, Hawaii, 1965 Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA B-65-885, caption on verso • A close up shot of the station’s acquisition aid antenna which acts as the eyes of the tracking station. Possessing a very wide acquisition beam, this antenna detects the spacecraft’s radio signals as it comes over the horizon and provides space positioning information to the radar’s for pointing and tracking accuracy. • #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #NASA #science #history #space #exploration