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1969 Official "Red Letter" NASA Photograph of Buzz Aldrin on the Moon. Photo taken by fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong. Iconic Photo shows the historic inaugural Lunar Landing by Man. | |||||
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1984 Official NASA "red letter" Photograph of astronaut Bruce McCandless venturing further away from the confines of his ship than any previous astronaut. This space first was made possible by a nitrogen jet propelled backpack, previously known at NASA as the Manned Manuevering Unit. After a series of test maneuvers inside and above Challenger's payload bay, McCandless went "free-flying" to a distance of 320 feet away from the Orbiter. This stunning orbital panorama view shows such. | 1968 Official Nasa "red letter" Photograph taken by Bill Anders of the Apollo 8 Mission. Known as one of the most iconic and important photographs of its generation and a Time 100 Photo, it was mans first full-color view of our planet from off of it and helped launch the environmental movement. Spectacular! | ||||
Rare 1967 "unclassified" Original Photograph of Astronaut Buzz Aldrin testing his Spacesuit. Early pre-apollo image of the famous astronaut preparing to rewrite history! | Rare 1967 "unclassified" Original Photograph of Astronaut Buzz Aldrin testing his Spacesuit. Early pre-apollo image of the famous astronaut preparing to rewrite history! | Historic First view of Crater Copernicus dubbed immediately by NASA as the "Photo of the Century" when seeing the prominent landscape features of the Moon for mans initial view and realizing (what was only seen via telescope prior) the moon was not flat and had amazing and complex terrain to its surface. An amazing Nasa achievement and major step taken towards better understanding the Earths Moon! | Original Unclassified Photograph of August 23, 1966, Worlds first view of earth taken by a spacecraft in the vicinity of the moon. Taken by The Lunar Orbiter I and transmitted down to Nasa hq in Houston. | ||
1983 Official NASA Photograph of Sally Ride, the first female astronaut in history aboard the Challenger STS-7 Mission in Earths Orbit. | 1961 Official US Navy Photograph of the important Freedom 7 mission. Photo shows the Redstone Missile ready to launch. | ||||
1969 Official "Red Letter" NASA Photograph of Buzz Aldrin on the Moon. Photo taken by fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong showing Aldrin about to take his first steps onto the Lunar Surface from the Ladder of the Lunar Module. Incredible! | 1965 Official Nasa "red letter" Photograph featuring Ed White of the Gemini - Titan 4 mission in the historic first American Spacewalk by Man! White spent 21 minuted outside the spacecraft in zero gravity suit and Earth can be seen in the background. | 1959 Official "Red Letter" Nasa Photpgraph featuring the Mercury Seven Crew (front, l to r) Walter H. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and Scott Carpenter; (back, l to r) Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. Gus Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was officially established on October 1, 1958. NASA announced these seven Project Mercury Astronauts on April 9, 1959, only six months later. They are also referred to as the Original Seven! | Official "Red Letter" NASA Photo of the Apollo 1 Crew; Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. Tragically, During a preflight test for what was to be the first manned Apollo mission, a fire claimed the lives of the three U.S. astronauts. |
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