Spacewalks and moon landings: Nasa archive photos up for auction
A set of photographic prints from Nasa’s archives – selected by Barbara Hitchcock and Peter Riva and approved by several of the astronauts – that include the first moon landing, are up for auction in New York. Originally part of a 1985 Smithsonian Institution exhibition, Sightseeing: A Space Panorama, many of the photos had never before been published by the space agency, and are the only known Cibachrome prints made from original Nasa positives
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Ed White performing the first American spacewalk, Gemini IV 1965
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Neil Armstrong photographs Buzz Aldrin, the second man to step on the moon
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Armstrong is reflected in Aldrin’s helmet visor
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Aldrin stands next to the American flag, mounted on a plastic tube. Cables, lower left, lead to the TV camera
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The Canadarm (remote manipulator system) in operation – to the right
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Eugene Cernan during the Apollo 17 moon landing, 1972
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Neil Armstrong walks near the gold-foil-wrapped foot of the lunar landing module
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Splashdown parachutes opening, Skylab 3, 1973
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Bruce McCandless II performs the first untethered spacewalk, 1984
