“View of Earth’s moon above the horizon changed the relationship of man and the cosmos” – BBC

The first self orbiting the earth, the only photo of Neil Armstrong on the Moon and the first picture of Earth from space – in London will go under the hammer nearly 700 rare photographs taken by US astronauts.

The only clear, focused image of Neil Armstrong on the moon, the first outer self made by Buzz Aldrin, the first picture of Earth from space, the first close-up of the moon, photograph of John Kennedy with Wernher von Braun in Marshall Space Flight Center. Some of these photos have become cult, some little known to the general public, and shot Armstrong did was discovered years after having been made.

almost 700 unique satellite image will be auctioned in London on February 26 and this event certainly caught the attention of the public interested in the history of the cosmos.

It is reported that the auction will auction house Dreweats Bloomsberry, who prepared lots “of previously unknown private collection of vintage photographs of astronauts pioneering NASA». All for sale pictures were taken on a quality kodakovskoy photo paper, the value they attach to the original stamps NASA, signatures and identification numbers. Photos courtesy of the private collections of people who once got hold of them in NASA, said the auction house.

«These photos – more than just a documentary photographs, many of them are stunning. They represent and the golden age of photography, when several people went into the unknown, to bring eractable image. View vshodyaschego Earth above the lunar horizon forever changed the relationship of man and the cosmos “, – said Sarah Wheeler, head fotootdela auction house.

October 24, 1946 launched the Americans to 110 km missile “V-2″ for the first time made a picture of the Earth from near space, which is visible to the curvature of the horizon. Thus began the era of technology, in which man-made machines allow a person, overcoming gravity, to go beyond the atmosphere. The presented collection fully covers the major milestones beginning of the American space program from the early days of the “Mercury” and “Gemini” and ending with the triumphant flight astronauts as part of the lunar program “Apollo».

For nearly 20 years after planting the first man on the moon was thought that all the images of Neil Armstrong on the surface there are only a few grainy images with cameras and 16mm film. In NASA thought of that expedition were only photo Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon and no pictures of the first man on the moon, made on the Hasselblad camera, it was not.

Only years later the only picture that represents an exceptional historical value, was found in the archives of nasovskih in Houston.

After each mission management NASA only publish a small part of the images taken by astronauts. Access to the other was allowed only to accredited researchers Space Center in Houston, where most of the submitted photos and extracted.

Among the photos – pictures taken in space, the first American astronaut John Glenn, who was also the first to issued a camera into space. Present there and photographs taken by Eugene Cernan, the “last” man on the moon. His shot astronaut Harrison Schmitt, made in December 1972 on the lunar surface, which is visible to Earth over the American flag, was called “one of the greatest photographers of the space program.” “I took off the earth, the moon, and the area around the person. I am proud of this photo “- said Cernan about your picture.

There is lots and among the first cosmic Self, Buzz Aldrin made in preparation for the flight to the moon in 1966.