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The NASA Photo Book

From NASA's Early Flights to Artemis

More than 340 photographs, restored from NASA's archives, from the first flights to Artemis II.

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340+ photographs
336 pages
Since 1958
Published by teNeues

01 / 07Looking up

We have always looked up. NASA went to look.

Since 1958, NASA has photographed nearly everything it has done. Film carried to the Moon and back. Rolls shot from the Shuttle. Pictures radioed home by machines that were never coming back. For ten years, Joel Meter and Simon Phillipson traced them back to the original film and mission data.

Several copies of The NASA Photo Book lying open, showing launch, nebula and spacewalk spreads

02 / 07The selection

Greatest hits,with a twist

Earthrise and the Blue Marble, beside frames barely looked at since the day they came down

03 / 07Ten eras. Ten ways of seeing.In the book

MercuryCrewed flight The first Americans in orbit, and the drugstore camera John Glenn carried up.
GeminiCrewed flight Ed White steps outside. The first American spacewalk.
ApolloCrewed flight Earthrise, the first bootprint, and the whole Earth from the last mission.
SkylabSpace station The first American space station. Living in space instead of visiting.
ShuttleCrewed flight Bruce McCandless flies free, untethered. He is on the cover.
VikingMars lander The first photograph from the surface of Mars.
VoyagerProbe Jupiter's storms, and the Pale Blue Dot.
HubbleTelescope Launched with a flawed mirror, fixed in orbit, aimed at empty sky full of galaxies.
CassiniProbe Saturn's rings, and its moon Titan.
Mars roversRover Rovers that drove for years, and a helicopter in the thin Martian air.
Space StationSpace station Lived in since November 2000. Eight million photographs of Earth from its windows.
WebbTelescope A million miles out, looking at galaxies whose light is older than Earth.
Artemis IICrewed flight Four people, further from home than anyone has been. The far side of the Moon.