Space Travel Collection

Frau im Mond advert, 1929
Frau im Mond advert. The science fiction silent film Woman in the Moon (German: Frau im Mond), released in 1929, was written and directed by Austrian film-maker Fritz Lang

Earthrise - Apollo 8, December 24, 1968. Creator: William A Anders
Earthrise - Apollo 8, December 24, 1968. This view of the rising Earth greeted the Apollo 8 astronauts as they came from behind the Moon after the fourth nearside orbit

President Kennedy makes his We choose to go to the Moon speech, Rice University, 1962. US President John F. Kennedy gives his We choose to go to the Moon speech in Houston, Texas

Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn and and its moon Titan

Space shuttle Discovery lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida
Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 5, 2010 - Space shuttle Discovery lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on the STS-131 mission

Skylab in orbit above Earth at the end of its mission, 1974. Creator: NASA
Skylab in orbit above Earth at the end of its mission, 1974. The Skylab space station, first launched in May 1973, and was occupied in succession by three teams of three crewmembers

The Gemini 7 spacecraft in Earth orbit
December 15, 1965 - This photograph of the Gemini-7 spacecraft was taken through the hatch window of the Gemini-6 spacecraft during rendezvous

U-2 spy plane with fictitious NASA markings, USA, 1960. Creator: NASA
U-2 spy plane with fictitious NASA markings, USA, 1960. After Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union during a CIA spy flight on May 1, 1960

Installation of Vostok spacecraft
Vostok spacecraft installation. Workers installing a Vostok spacecraft. Vostok were Soviet spacecraft used as part of the Vostok programme, which flew six manned spaceflights between 1961 and 1963

Launch of Vostok 1 spacecraft, 1961
Launch of Vostok 1 spacecraft. Close-up of the exhaust flames of the rocket launching Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) into orbit from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on 12 April 1961

Vostok 1 Soviet spacecraft
Vostok (Russian осток, translated as "East") was a family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM designed for the humanspaceflight programme but later used for other sputnik

Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), soviet cosmonaut and first man in space. Gagarin made the first manned space flight on 12 April 1961

Surface of the planet Mercury. Creator: NASA
Surface of the planet Mercury

US Astronaut Edward H. White II carrying out external tasks during third orbit of Gemini-Titan 4 flight. CREDIT: NASA

Space shuttle Atlantis twin solid rocket boosters ignite to propel the spacecraft
Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 14, 2010 - Space shuttle Atlantis twin solid rocket boosters ignite to propel the spacecraft off Kennedy Space Centers Launch Pad 39A and into orbit

Yuri Gagarin driving through London, UK
Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), Soviet cosmonaut and first man in space, driving through London, UK, in an open-top car. Gagarin made the first manned space flight on 12 April 1961

Vostok rocket, Moscow, Russia
Vostok (Russian осток, translated as "East") was a family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM designed for the humanspaceflight programme but later used for other sputnik

Spaceship to the Moon imagined in the 1870s
Projectile train to the moon, a suggested form of space travel, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

An astronaut surveys his situation after being marooned on a barren planet. Ominous clouds form in the distance while his scorched capsule is nearby

Neta Snook Southern at Ames Research Center, California, USA, 1980. Creator: NASA
Neta Snook Southern at Ames Research Center, California, USA, 1980. American pioneer aviator Neta Snook Southern, age 84, emerges from the Flight Simulator for Advanced Aircraft

Gemini VI in orbit 160 miles (257 km) above Earth, December 15, 1965. Gemini VI spacecraft seen through the hatch window of Gemini VII during rendezvous and station-keeping manoeuvres

Ed White performs first U. S. spacewalk, 1965. Creator: James A McDivitt
Ed White performs first U.S. spacewalk, 1965. Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot for the Gemini-Titan 4 space flight, floats in space during Americas first spacewalk

Uranus from Voyager 2, 25 January 1986. Creator: NASA
Uranus from Voyager 2, 25 January 1986. Farewell shot of crescent Uranus, taken from 600, 000 miles (965, 000 kilometres) away as the unmanned Voyager 2 spacecraft departs

Smoke envelops the Delta II rocket
Cape Canaveral, Florida - Smoke envelops the Delta II rocket with the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, aboard as it launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

President Eisenhower with Hugh Dryden and T. Keith Glennan, August 19, USA, 1958. US President Dwight D. Eisenhower (centre) swears in Dr. T

Seamans, von Braun and President Kennedy at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 1963. Dr. Wernher von Braun (center) explains the Saturn Launch System to President John F. Kennedy

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, also known as WMAP, is designed to make fundamental measurements of cosmology, the study of the properties of our universe as a whole

Apollo Panoramic
View of Station 11 Vertical Panoramic North Ray taken during the third Extravehicular Activity (EVA) 3. Image was created using Apollo 16 images

Tsiolkovskys works on space conquest
Konstantin Tsiolkovskys early works on space conquest. Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) was a Russian rocket pioneer. Although he never built a rocket

The Blue Marble - Earth from space, December 7, 1972. Creator: NASA
The Blue Marble - Earth from space, December 7, 1972. This famous photograph, known as The Blue Marble, was captured by the Apollo 17 astronauts on the same day that they left Earth on a Saturn V

A Journey to the Moon
5312044 A Journey to the Moon; (add.info.: Title page of 'A Journey to the Moon', an early 19th century pamphlet on space travel. Dated 19th century.); Universal History Archive/UIG.

The Departure
Frank Moth

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Yuri Gagarin, 1960s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Yuri Gagarin, 1960s, (2023). Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Yuri Gagarin, 1960s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Yuri Gagarin, 1960s, (2023). Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Yuri Gagarin, 1960s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Yuri Gagarin, 1960s, (2023). Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Yuri Gagarin, 1960s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Yuri Gagarin, 1960s, (2023). Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Neil Armstrong, 1960s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Neil Armstrong, 1960s, (2023). Armstrong (1930-2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to walk on the Moon as part of the Apollo

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Neil Armstrong, 1960s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Neil Armstrong, 1960s, (2023). Armstrong (1930-2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to walk on the Moon as part of the Apollo

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Neil Armstrong, 1960s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Neil Armstrong, 1960s, (2023). Armstrong (1930-2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to walk on the Moon as part of the Apollo

Craters on the Moon. Creator: NASA
Craters on the Moon

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, Apollo II mission, July 1969. Creator: Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, Apollo II mission, July 1969. Reflected in Aldrins visor are Neil Armstrong taking the photograph, the US flag, and the Eagle

Harrison Schmitt works the scoop on the lunar surface, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. US astronaut Harrison Schmitt (born 1935), the 12th man to walk on the Moon

The Rover is dwarfed by a giant rock on the lunar surface, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. US astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt collected samples and drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle

Astronaut with Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon, 1970s. Creator: NASA
Astronaut with Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon, 1970s. The LRV or Moon Buggy was a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo programme in

Harrison Schmitt collects lunar rake samples, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. Creator: NASA
Harrison Schmitt collects lunar rake samples, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. US astronaut Harrison Schmitt (born 1935), the 12th man to walk on the Moon

Simulation showing the separation of the component parts of the Apollo 11 spacecraft, 1969. Illustration of the removal of the Command Module

Command and supply capsule, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. Creator: NASA
Command and supply capsule, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. Apollo 17 was the last Apollo Moon landing mission

Crawler moving Space Shuttle to launch complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, USA, 1980s
Crawler moving Space Shuttle to launch complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, USA, 1980s. Crawler-transporters, formally known as the Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities

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"Exploring the Final Frontier: A Journey Through Space Travel" Skylab in orbit above Earth at the end of its mission, 1974. Creator: NASA Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn and its moon Titan. The Gemini 7 spacecraft gracefully glides through Earth's orbit. U-2 spy plane with fictitious NASA markings, USA, 1960. Creator: NASA Witnessing Earthrise - Apollo 8, December 24, 1968. Creator: William A Anders Space shuttle Discovery lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The meticulous installation of Vostok spacecraft paves the way for historic missions. Reliving the awe-inspiring launch of Vostok 1 spacecraft in 1961. Unveiling the remarkable Vostok 1 Soviet spacecraft that propelled humanity into space. Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut who fearlessly ventured beyond our planet's boundaries. Space shuttle Atlantis twin solid rocket boosters ignite to propel the spacecraft towards new horizons. Travel back to Frau im Mond advert from1929 – a glimpse into early dreams of space exploration. Embarking on an extraordinary odyssey through time and space, these captivating images capture mankind's relentless pursuit to unravel the mysteries beyond our blue planet’s atmosphere. From Skylab serenely floating above Earth during its final mission to Cassini meticulously navigating Saturn's rings alongside its enigmatic moon Titan; each photograph tells a tale of human ingenuity and courage reaching unprecedented heights. The Gemini VII effortlessly dances among stars as it orbits our precious home while disguised U-2 spy planes don fictional NASA markings blurring lines between secrecy and exploration in a bygone era.