Model of the Lunar Crater Copernicus

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California. Photo © The J. Paul Getty Museum, California

Sir John Herschel, 1842, calotype, 13 × 16.5 cm

Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California, 1902

Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Picture credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC

Photochrome print

Assembly of Saturn V S-IC first stage

Photo © NASA

Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960s

Gimbal rig, Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility (MASTIF)

Used for training astronauts to control pitch and roll for the early Mercury missions (1958–1963), Lewis Research Center, Lewis Field, Cleveland, Ohio, 1957.

Earthrise, photographed from Apollo 8

Photo © NASA

William Anders, 24 December 1968

Sun and Moon. A Story of Astronomy, Photography and Cartography

Cover of the book published by Phaidon