Category: Apollos & Moonwalks
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The first color photograph of the first Earthrise witnessed by humans (Large Format)
The celebrated view of Planet Earth rising above the bleached lunar horizon (the first taken by human beings on color film). The crew had completed three lunar orbits before emerging from the farside and witnessing this sight for the first time, surely one of the most astounding ever photographed in all of human history.
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The first human-taken photograph in lunar orbit
For three days the Apollo 8 astronauts journeyed outward toward a goal they could not see. The Moon would fill their view once they slipped into orbit around it.
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Almost Full Moon
‘Even though though the crew [of Apollo 13] remained calm, they also knew they were in serious trouble as Mission Control worked frantically to come up with life-saving answers, as recalled Gene Kranz: “By the end of the second day, this crew is two hundred thousand miles from Earth. They are fifty thousand miles from…
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Earth, like a diamond in the lunar sky
This is one of the very few Apollo photographs showing the Earth from the surface of the Moon, as seen by humans, in an extraordinary reversal of viewpoint. Eugene Cernan took great care of capturing this photograph of major philosophical importance. The last man on the Moon framed this fantastic shot at station 2, located…
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Crescent Earthrise beyond the Moon’s barren horizon
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.
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Outstanding view of the moon
Space MissionApollo 11, 21 July 1969 PhotographerNasa Photo DescriptionVintage chromogenic print on a fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.2 x 25.4 cm; NASA caption and ‘A Kodak Paper’ watermarks on verso, numbered NASA AS11-44-6665 in red ink in top margin EssayThis outstanding view of the entire nearside surface of the moon was photographed from the Apollo 11…
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Portrait of Charles Duke at Plum Crater
Space MissionApollo 16, 16-27 April 1972, EVA 1 PhotographerJohn Young Photo DescriptionVintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper; Numbered to upper margin ‘NASA AS16-114-18423’ with ‘A Kodak Paper’ watermarks to verso. EssayThis magnificent frame is from the panoramic sequence taken by Young at station 1 in the otherworldly scenery of Plum Crater.Charles Duke watches his…
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Buzz Aldrin jumping down to the LM footpad to become the second human on the Moon
Space MissionApollo 11, 16-24 July 1969 PhotographerNeil Armstrong Photo DescriptionVintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper. 8 h × 10 w in (20 × 25 cm); ‘A Kodak Paper’ watermarks to verso. [NASA image AS11-40-5868] EssayLeaving the ninth step of the ladder, an eager Aldrin jumps down to the Moon 19 minutes after Armstrong. On…
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Buzz Aldrin walking on the Moon
Space MissionApollo 11, 16-24 July 1969 PhotographerNeil Armstrong Photo DescriptionVintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper; ‘A Kodak Paper’ watermarks to verso. With red caption: AS11-40-5902 EssayStanding beyond the north strut of the LM Eagle at Tranquility Base, Buzz Aldrin is surrounded by a vacuum atmosphere in the one sixth gravity environment. In this silent…
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The step on the Moon
Space MissionApollo 11, 16-24 July 1969 PhotographerBuzz Aldrin Photo DescriptionVintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper EssayThis famous photograph was taken by Buzz Aldrin to provide a visual record of the relative density of the surface in a “soil mechanics test” and is now one of the most iconic of the entire space program. “I…