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• ★ A Family Portrait on the Moon

  
  Here’s another fun trivia about the lunar missions -- no, a family photoshoot wasn’t actually done on the moon, no matter how cool that would be – one astronaut purposely left a photo print of his family on the moon’s surface.
  February 15, 2013 1 comment 14 likes

• Moon Hoax Not: Photography-based Argument That NASA Couldn’t Have Faked It

  
  Amsterdam-based writer / director S G Collins is not sure if men really did go to the Moon in 1969. But he’s pretty sure they couldn't have faked it.
  January 22, 2013 4 comments 6 likes

• Today in History: The Iconic Blue Marble Photo was Taken (1972)

  
  Yesterday, we wrote about the fascinating new image of our planet at nighttime as captured from outerspace. Now, let us focus on its older but equally fascinating brother, the iconic Blue Marble photo, which celebrates its 40th anniversary today.
  December 07, 2012 7 likes

• Black Marble: NASA Releases Photos of Earth at Nighttime

  
  Here’s another facet of our planet that we don’t see every day. NASA has just unveiled a set of extremely fascinating and serene photos of Earth shrouded in the dark of the night.
  December 06, 2012 3 comments 12 likes

• Tribute to Neil Armstrong

  
  "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." That's how Neil Armstrong described it as he first stepped onto the moon's surface. It was a sad day on Saturday, as the world received news that US astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon, died aged 82. To keep the remarkable memories alive, here's a tribute to the man who took "the giant leap for mankind".
  August 27, 2012 14 likes

• LEGO Space Shuttle Orbits Earth's Outer Atmosphere

  
  One dream is extinguished, sucked into a black hole, and another is born. What we're talking about is the end of NASA's Space Shuttle program, after over 30-years of missions, and the first ever LEGO space shuttle flight! Their overlapping isn't coincidental but planned, as the latter is in homage to the end of the long spanning space age. It's all documented on tape and available for you to enjoy after the jump!
  March 13, 2012 1 comment 7 likes

• Out of this World? The Marvelous Photography of Mercury Messenger!

  
  In lieu of the recently concluded Space Week, let us take a look at some photos from Mercury Messenger, the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury! Mercury Messenger is designed to operate in an extreme environment, achieve scientific goals, and beam back beautiful photographs of the planet Mercury!
  October 18, 2011 2 comments 5 likes

• Decades in Space: 90’s Space Pictures

  
  Here are some 90’s pictures in celebration of Space Week.
  October 10, 2011 2 likes

• Lomocation: Out of This World

  
  There isn't much analogue photographs about space travel these days but looking at the sky with the naked eye is an activity as old as time. Here are some shots I managed to capture with long exposures and late nights of the galaxies - the most difficult to reach lomocation (for now).
  February 13, 2011 2 comments 8 likes

• ★ Historic Photography Questions: The Apollo XI Crew Wants to Take a Picture in Space

  
  We doubt any of us will have this kind of problem in the future but during the ascent to the moon, Apollo XI crew member Buzz Aldrin was not so sure about which settings to use on his Hasselblad EL500 camera. Of course Mission Control has the answer. Read on for the whole story!
  June 16, 2010 12 comments 26 likes

• Hasselblad 500C — Bang, Zoom, Straight to the Moon!

  
  The 500C is a camera of outstanding quality. In fact, the quality is so high that NASA chose to use it as the camera to be used on Project Mercury, NASA's first mission to put a human in orbit.
  June 02, 2009 16 comments 16 likes