Here are some wonderful images from the Blue Ghost 1 mission of the Earth (taken on March 3, 2025) and a lunar eclipse as seen from the Moon as the sun begins to emerge from behind the Earth (March 14, 2025), from Firefly Aerospace.
© Firefly Aerospace
Here’s a video of the Blue Ghost 1 mission during its lunar landing on March 2, 2025, from Firefly Aerospace.
© Firefly Aerospace
Here’s another nice little video of an orbital view of the lunar far side from the Blue Ghost 1 mission by Firefly Aerospace, scheduled to land on the Moon on March 2, 2025.
Here’s a nice little video of an orbital view of the lunar far side from the Blue Ghost 1 mission by Firefly Aerospace, scheduled to land on the Moon on March 2, 2025.
© Firefly Aerospace 2025
APOLLOSPACE is pleased to announce that the restoration of all 572 color 70mm Hasselblad photographs is complete. All 4 color magazines of the Apollo 12 mission are now available for downloading at the highest resolution (5200×5200 pixels at 300 dpi). Apollo 12 took 2114 useable images on 14 Hasselblad Magazines. APOLLOSPACE will turn next to the 1438 black and white images from Apollo 12, beginning with the two magazines containing lunar surface photography.
Apollo 12 Magazine 46/Y contains 154 color images: NASA #s AS12-46-6715 to AS12-46-6868. This Magazine consists of lunar surface photographs from Apollo 12. Primarily images of astronauts descending the Lunar Module and working on the Moon and panoramic photos of the landing site.
The APOLLOSPACE Mission Magazine Images Pages have a new look and feature! FULL DOWNLOADS!
Now you can download every mission image and magazine at the highest resolution we have available through our APOLLOSPACE Flickr page. Now when you view our Mission Magazine Pages, you’ll see thumbnail images of every image in that magazine and below that you’ll find a new feature: an embedded slideshow with access to download any image at the highest resolution available or download the entire magazine as a zip file!
Scroll through the images below with the forward and back arrows. Download full-sized images by clicking on a desired image or download the entire Magazine of photos by clicking on the Album name above the images (here Album – AS11-40S-APOLLOSPACE-5000).
APOLLOSPACE® proudly presents the most comprehensive collection of fully restored and enhanced flight images at the highest quality and resolution available, free to download by mission magazine (film […]
The story of the first color photographs of the Earth from space continues in Otto Berg’s own words, with light edits and editorial notes.
In this new enthusiasm over the montage, my new Boss, Dr Les Meredith, and I decided to take the photo to the National Geographic Society in the hopes that they would be sufficiently interested to reproduce the montage in professional color. They sadly declined based on the very high cost of doing that. On the return to the Lab., we passed by the Life magazine Offices and decided to see if they would print it in true color. Seconds after we entered the Life magazine offices, we were surrounded by every member of that organization, I believe even the janitors. They tried their darnedest to talk us into leaving the photo at Life overnight, but […]
The story of the first color photographs of the Earth from space continues in Otto Berg’s own words, with light edits and editorial notes.
The next day, I brought the montage (actually, I simply referred to it as a mosaic until Life magazine referred to it as a montage) into the Lab and, again, my colleagues were mostly impressed by the large area of planet Earth shown and the curvature of the horizon.
Detail of the NRL-Berg Mosaic detailing the “discovery” of a tropical storm over Texas and the value of space spaced photography for weather observation
The montage occupied a humble spot on the workbench in our labs for several days as we would briefly discuss it over a cup of coffee. Eventually we began to realize that the huge white cloud glob in the picture was somewhat […]
Aerobee Rocket AJ-10-24 carrying the first color film to record Earth from space with unidentified Navy personnel, October 1, 1954 (4 days before launch). Credit: Department of the Navy, courtesy White Sands Missile Range Museum
The story of the first color photographs of the Earth from space continues in Otto Berg’s own words, with light edits and editorial notes. The individual Earth photos appearing here (other than Berg’s original montage) were scanned and processed from the decades old internegatives that Otto Berg produced in order to create the Earth Montage in 1954. There was significant color fading of the negatives as compared with the 16mm film itself, which will be scanned as individual frames at the highest resolution available. For now, the images appearing here are the best versions of these images available, though when the 16mm film […]
