Guide

Space race wall art

The American side of the space race in NASA photographs: John Glenn's Friendship 7 launch in 1962, the Gemini spacewalks, Wernher von Braun with the Saturn V engines, Apollo 8's Earthrise, and the Moon landings from Apollo 11 to Apollo 17 in December 1972.

Friendship 7 launchNASA, 1962
White on the first American EVANASA / James McDivitt, 1965
The Nile and Suez from Gemini 4NASA / Gemini 4 crew, 1965
Agena tethered to Gemini 11NASA / Gemini 11 crew, 1966
Aldrin during the Gemini 12 EVANASA / Jim Lovell, 1966
Wernher von Braun with the Saturn V F-1 EnginesNASA / Marshall Space Flight Center, 1969
Apollo 8 liftoffNASA, 1968
EarthriseNASA / Bill Anders, 1968
Lunar Module SpiderNASA / Apollo 9 crew, 1969
Apollo 10 Saturn V at sunset on Pad BNASA, 1969
Apollo 11 Saturn V climbs the pad inclineNASA, 1969
Apollo 11 liftoffNASA, 1969
Aldrin at the Lunar ModuleNASA / Neil Armstrong, 1969
Bootprint in the lunar soilNASA / Buzz Aldrin, 1969
Earthrise over the Moon from Apollo 11NASA, 1969
Bean with a lunar sample containerNASA / Pete Conrad, 1969
Earth from the crippled OdysseyNASA / Apollo 13 crew, 1970
Apollo 14 Lunar Module on the MoonNASA / Apollo 14 crew, 1971
Irwin salutes beside the flagNASA / David Scott, 1971
Young salutes the flagNASA / Charles Duke, 1972
Apollo 17 Saturn V rollout to the padNASA, 1972
Schmitt at the split boulder, Taurus-LittrowNASA, 1972
Crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizonNASA, 1972