A collection of 22 photographs from past NASA missions, including images of spacewalks and the Apollo 11 lunar landing, are to be auctioned by New York’s Swann Auction Galleries on 14 February.
The images have been selected from NASA’s archives and printed from original NASA positives, and are expected to sell somewhere between $15,000 and $25,000.
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Take a look at our gallery below to see some of the iconic images being auctioned, which give a sense of the enormity of NASA’s achievements as it began sending humans into space.
The famous photo of Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface of the Moon, captured by Neil Armstrong. (Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries)
Buzz Aldrin stands beside the US flag on the lunar surface. (Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries)
Neil Armstrong seen near the Lunar Module on during the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. (Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries)
Buzz Aldrin makes his way down the Lunar Module ladder to become the second man on the Moon, 20 July 1969. (Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries)
Parachutes open as Skylab 3 lands in the Pacific Ocean, September 25 1973. Skylab 3 was the second manned mission to the first US space station, Skylab. (Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries)
Ed White becomes the first American to spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission, 3 June 1965. (Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries)
The ‘last man on the Moon’ Eugene Cernan takes part in an extra vehicular activity during Apollo 17, December 1972. (Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries)
The ‘Canadarm’ robotic arm operates on the US Space Shuttle. (Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries)
Astronaut Bruce McCandless makes the first ever untethered spacewalk with the aid of his nitrogen jet propelled backpack, February 1984. (Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries)
