Here's a collection of vintage photos of space taken by NASA from the 1960s to early 1980s. It's pretty wonderful to see these faded, full-colour visuals from a time when the bold explorations were just getting started.
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Owen Garriott working outside Skylab 3, August 1973. |
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Apollo 11 lift-off seen from the top of the launch gantry, Apollo 11, July 1969. |
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Crescent Earth from 10,000 miles, Apollo 4, November 1967. |
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Eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, Apollo 12, November 1969. |
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Florida keys from orbit, Gemini 4, June 1965. |
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Eugene Cernan and the antenna on the Rover, Apollo 17, December 1972. |
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David Scott and the Lunar Rover, Apollo 15, August 1971. |
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James McDivitt, Ed White walking in space over Hawaii, Gemini 4, June 1965. |
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James McDivitt, Ed White walking in space, Gemini 4, June 1965. |
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Liftoff of the last lunar mission, Apollo 17, December 1972. |
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Jupiter and its satellite Io, Voyager 2, June 1979. |
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Buzz Aldrin’s visor reflects Armstrong, Apollo 11, July 1969. |
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David Scott climbs out of the Command Module, Apollo 9, March 1969. |
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Splashdown of the Apollo 14 command module, Apollo 14, February 1971. |
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Earthrise, the first ever witnessed by human eyes, Apollo 8, December 1968. |
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Saturn, Voyager 1, 1980. |
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Space Shuttle STS-1 at Kennedy Space Center, Shuttle, March 1981. |
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I was hoping to see myself in one of those pics. Oddly, the orange car strikes a memory. I don't know if there may have been more than one, considering the masses, but it's the only thing in these images that strikes a memory. I wonder where the tapes are for that event, I'm surprised no one's capitalized on it.
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I didn't make this Festival, but i definitely was at Woodstock in 1969!!
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ReplyDeleteyou can see the rest of the pix here:
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