Space Odyssey
This 1946 image of Earth was the first photograph taken in space. Clyde Holliday, who developed the camera that took this picture, wrote in National Geographic that this was "how our earth would look to visitors from another planet coming in on a space ship."
Vintage NASA Photos From the Golden Age of Space
Vintage NASA Photos From the Golden Age of Space
In November 1966, NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin made history with the first selfie in space. It's a modest-size print, eight by ten, and in the frame you can see his eyes—the rest of his face is obscured by his helmet—and in the background, a slice of earth set against the blackness of space.
Aldrin's photo, along with nearly 700 vintage NASA images, will be offered for sale this week in London at a Bloomsbury Auctions' event entitled From the Earth to the Moon. The collection features many photos never released by NASA, including a series of mosaic-like images of the lunar landscape made from stitched-together smaller photos.
"It includes the first photograph from space taken from a V-2
