⚡️⚡️⚡️ 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
⚡️⚡️⚡️ Nerves of steel! An EVA by astronauts Woody Sping and Jerry Ross on board Space Shuttle Atlantis in November 1985. Seen here against an infinite blackness of space and illuminated by artificial light in a 'nighttime' environment. • Woody Spring and Jerry Ross EVA, Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-61B, November 1985 Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA 61-B-45-22 • [NASA description] An early phase of the build-up of the experimental assembly structures in extravehicular activity (EASE) components was captured on 70mm film with a handheld camera inside Atlantis’ cabin. Astronauts Jerry L. Ross (left) and Sherwood C. Spring conducted successful EVA in both “daytime” and “night time” environments. • #SpaceShuttle #1985 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
🌀🌀🌀 A mesmerising shot of Space Shuttle Challenger in orbit above the Earth. • Challenger over the Earth, Space Shuttle Challenger STS-7, June 1983 Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm • [NASA description] Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space. Two communications satellites were deployed, ANIK C-2 for TELESAT Canada and PALAPA-B1 for Indonesia, both were attached to the Payload Assist Module-D (PAM-D) motors. Seven Get Away Special canisters in the cargo bay held a variety of experiments, including one studying affects of space on social behavior of an ant colony in zero gravity. Ten experiments were mounted on the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS-01) and performed research in forming metal alloys in microgravity and the use of a remote sensing scanner. The orbiter's small control rockets were fired while SPAS-01 was held by the remote manipulator system to test the movement on an extended arm. Experiment 1: To investigate space sickness was carried out. Other payloads on this mission were: Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications-2 (OSTA-2); Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System (CFES); Monodisperse Latex Reactor (MLR) and one Shuttle Student Involvement (SSIP) experiment. • #SpaceShuttle #1983 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
😱😱😱 "Uh, Houston, we've had a problem". A view of the severely damaged Apollo 13 Service Module. The astronauts faced the fight of their lives: at risk of asphyxiation and with the assistance of their colleagues back on Earth they devised an ingenious way of 'scrubbing' the exhaled air of C02 in the cramped Command Module so they weren't killed. The mission was ultimately hailed as a "successful failure" - an apt and powerful demonstration of NASA's ability to protect human life in the event of potentially calamitous developments. • The damaged Apollo 13 Service Module seen from the Lunar Module/Command Module Apollo 13, April 1970 Vintage chromogenic print, 25.4 x 20.2 cm NASA S71-35703 • [NASA Caption] This view of the severely damaged Apollo 13 Service Module (SM) was photographed by a Maurer 16mm motion picture camera from the Lunar Module/Command Module (LM/CM) following SM jettisoning. As seen here, an entire panel on the SM was blown away by the apparent explosion of oxygen tank number two located in Sector 4 of the SM. Two of the three fuel cells are visible just forward (above) the heavily damaged area. Three fuel cells, two oxygen tanks, and two hydrogen tanks are located in Sector 4. The damaged area is located above the S-Band high gain antenna. Nearest the camera is the Service Propulsion System (SPS) engine and nozzle. The damage to the SM caused the Apollo 13 crew to use the LM as a “lifeboat”. The LM was jettisoned just prior to Earth re-entry by the CM. • #Apollo13 #1971 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
🌊🌊🌊 Splashdown!!! The Apollo 15 Command Module makes a dramatic return to Earth in August 1971 with bright red and white parachutes. Alarmingly one of the three parachutes failed to open, luckily with no harm to the crew on board. A remarkably efficient way of getting the crew back home. • Splashdown of the Apollo 15 Command Module Apollo 15, August 1971 Vintage chromogenic print, 25.4 x 20.2 cm NASA S71-43543 • [NASA Caption] The Apollo 15 Command Module (CM), with astronauts David R. Scott, commander; Alfred M. Worden, command module pilot; and James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, aboard safely touches down in the mid-Pacific Ocean to conclude a highly successful lunar landing mission. Although causing no harm to the crew men, one of the three main parachutes failed to function properly. The splashdown occurred at 3:45:53 p.m. (CDT), Aug. 7, 1971, some 330 miles north of Honolulu, Hawaii. The three astronauts were picked up by helicopter and flown to the prime recovery ship, USS Okinawa, which was only 6 1/2 miles away. • #Apollo15 #1971 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
🔥🔥🔥 Just because... a montage of Voyager 1 images of Jupiter and its moons Io and Europa. 😱😱 • Which image is your favourite?? 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5? • 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. Discovery of active volcanism on the satellite Io was probably the greatest surprise. 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. • #Voyager #Voyager1 #Jupiter #Io #Europa #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
📡📡📡 A dizzying view from the Space Shuttle Atlantis. NASA's fourth space-rated space shuttle, OV-104 "Atlantis," was named after the two-masted boat that served as the primary research vessel for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts from 1930 to 1966. Construction of the orbiter Atlantis began on March 3, 1980. Thanks to lessons learned in the construction and testing of orbiters Enterprise, Columbia and Challenger, Atlantis was completed in about half the time in man-hours spent on Columbia. Atlantis also served as the on-orbit launch site for many noteworthy spacecraft, including planetary probes Magellan and Galileo, as well as the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. An impressive array of onboard science experiments took place during most missions to further enhance space research in low Earth orbit. • Jerry L. Ross, EVA holding on to Assembly Concept for Construction of Erectable Space Structures device Space Shuttle Atlantis STS 61-B, December 1985 Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm Caption on verso, 61B-102-022 • [Caption] Astronaut Jerry L. Ross, anchored to the foot restraint on the remote manipulator system (RMS), holds onto the tower-like Assembly Concept for Construction of Erectable Space Structures (ACCESS) device, as the Atlantis flies over white clouds and blue ocean waters. The frame was exposed with a negative-equipped camera held by Astronaut Sherwood C. Spring, who was also on the EVA-task. • #SpaceShuttle #1985 #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History
🗿📺🛰 A great shot showing one of the larger and more unusual surface oddities on the Moon with astronaut Eugene Cernan for scale. • Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and the Rover by a boulder, Apollo 17, December 1972 Credit: Eugene Cernan Vintage chromogenic print, 20.2 x 25.4 cm NASA AS17-146-22294 • [NASA description]Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed working beside a huge boulder at Station 6 (base of North Massif) during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The front portion of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is visible on the left. This picture was taken by astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 commander. Schmitt is the lunar module pilot. While astronauts Cernan and Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Challenger" to explore the moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with the Apollo 17 Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit. The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was an electric vehicle designed to operate in the low-gravity vacuum of the Moon and to be capable of traversing the lunar surface, allowing the Apollo astronauts to extend the range of their surface extravehicular activities. Three LRVs were driven on the Moon, one on Apollo 15 by astronauts David Scott and Jim Irwin, one on Apollo 16 by John Young and Charles Duke, and one on Apollo 17 by Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt. Each rover was used on three traverses, one per day over the three day course of each mission. • #Apollo17 #1972 #Moon #vintageNASAphotographs #vintagespace #spaceexhibition #onlineexhibition #vintage #NASA #galaxy #astronaut #spacetravel #cosmos #USA #science #spaceexploration #space #NASAfan #rocket #NeilArmstrong #KennedySpaceCentre #AnaloguePhotography #History