Category: Early Space Odysseas
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Superb view of the Arabian Peninsula and Red Sea
Gemini 11 photograph of the Gulf of Aden to the right and the Red Sea to the left. At top center is Saudi Arabia and at the bottom Somalia and Ethiopia are visible.
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John Glenn in weightlessness during the first US orbital spaceflight
The first American to orbit the Earth “photographed in space by an automatic sequence motion picture camera. He was in a state of weightlessness traveling at 17,500 mph”
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Enos the Chimp, first hominid sent by Nasa to Orbit
Enos is the chimpanzee being fitted into his pressure couch prior to his orbital flight from Cape Canaveral. On November 29, 1961, Enos would orbit the Earth on board Mercury-Atlas 5, becoming the third hominid—after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov—to achieve Earth orbit.
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The Earth horizon over China; Yangtze River, Shanghai
Pete Conrad captured this rare view over “the mouth of the silt-laden Yangtze River on the coast of mainland China (left), with Shanghai in the lower center of the picture. The river flow pattern and disposition rate seen here can be traced for over 75 miles as the river effluent mixes with the China Sea”.
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The New Nine astronauts (NASA Astronaut Group 2) posing with the Original Seven Mercury Astronauts
A great portrait of the first two groups of NASA astronauts
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First US Spacewalk: views of Ed White returning to the spacecraft at the end of the EVA
“During the third orbit of Earth, Ed White opened the hatch of the capsule, pushed himself out and floated in space 135 miles above the planet for 21 minutes. ‘I was taking some big steps,’ said White. From the moment he stepped outside to his reclosing of the hatch, White’s seven-league boots covered some 6,000…
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The Original 7 Project Mercury Astronauts
Front row, left to right: Walter Schirra, Donald “Deke” Slayton, John Glenn, and Scott Carpenter; back row, left to right: Alan Shepard, Virgil “Gus” Grissom, and Gordon Cooper
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First live TV picture of another world broadcast on Earth
First live TV picture of another world shared to humans on Earth, showing a small impact crater in a little mare.
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First close-up photograph of Mars
The historic first photograph of Mars, taken from nearly 150 million miles away, showing the first ever close-up view of the Red Planet, featured on the cover of the TIME magazine on 23 July 1965.
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First close-up photographs of another world
Four consecutive views depicting the first close up photographs of another world taken by the crash lander Ranger 7 on its way down to the lunar surface.