26 02, 2023

FIRST COLOR PHOTO OF EARTH FROM SPACE – THE BERG FILM II

Jeremy Theoret2023-04-04T20:39:00+00:00Categories: Apollospace Presents, Earth, Flown, News|Tags: Dr. Otto Berg, Earth, Navy Research Laboratory, Photography|0 Comments

First Color Photo of Earth from Space (Part II):

The Mission & the Montage

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 […]

FIRST COLOR PHOTO OF EARTH FROM SPACE – THE BERG FILM I

Jeremy Theoret2023-04-10T18:17:35+00:00Categories: Apollospace Presents, Earth, Flown, News|Tags: Apollo Reflections, Dr. Otto Berg, Earth, Navy Research Laboratory, Photography, Reflections Series|0 Comments

First Color Photo of Earth from Space Unearthed!

On October 5, 1954, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) launched an Aerobee sounding rocket from the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico. On board were two 16mm movie cameras peering out small holes, one with black and white film and the other with color film.

On that color 16mm film would be recorded the very first color images of Earth from space.

Berg’s Earth Mosaic – Credit: U. S. Navy / Naval Research Laboratory

On October 5, 1954, an Aerobee rocket carrying two 16 mm movie cameras (including one with color film) captured the first color images of Earth from space, including images of a tropical storm over the state of Texas. Approximately 140 […]

APOLLOSPACE FOCUSING ON “APOLLO REFLECTIONS”

Jeremy Theoret2022-03-12T18:47:33+00:00Categories: Films, Gemini, News|Tags: Gemini, swords into plowshares, Titan II|0 Comments

“Apollo Reflections” Film & Titan II Missile

After producing four short films in the Apollo Reflections series, we are now focusing our attention on our feature-length documentary, “Apollo Reflections.” During our recent trip to Tucson, AZ for Spacefest we were fortunate to interview several more Space Shuttle era astronauts and others who witnessed Apollo history or were inspired by it, including Shuttle Astronauts Eileen Collins (1st US female mission Commander), Mario Runco, Kathy Sullivan (1st US female Spacewalker), Linda Godwin, and Clay Anderson, as well as authors, and the only college journalists given NASA press credentials to report on the Apollo 11 mission, David Chudwin and Marv Rubenstein, and Ryan Nagata, among others.

We also shot some great B-Roll at the Titan II Missile Museum south of Tucson.

I gazed upon the Titan II pondering its power with a mix of awe, wonder, […]