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Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Room with a View: Fantastic view of the Yucatan and British Honduras as photographed by astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad during the eight-day mission of Gemini 5 in August 1965. The Gemini Program produced a large number of wonderful views of Earth during the 1965-1966 […] Image Credit: Retro Space Images Retro Space Images is offering up rare imagery from NASA’s Saturn V Moon rocket. The package has a collection of photos from the Apollo era from 1967-1973. While you might have seen a handful of the Apollo-era photos contained within, most of them have rarely been seen before. […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Saturn Sunrise: This was the early morning scene as the Saturn V for the Apollo 9 mission was rolled out to Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 3, 1969. Astronauts Jim McDivitt, Dave Scott, and Rusty Schweickart were launched on a 10-day mission […] Photo Credit: J.L. Pickering In Better Days: Photo taken in November 1983 showing a late afternoon view of Complex 19 at Cape Canaveral. The blockhouse and erector made famous in the Gemini Program are clearly visible in this photo. Anyone who has visited the pad in recent years will see that […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Generally Speaking: Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford breaks from training to participate in a photo session at the Kennedy Space Center in April 1969. Stafford, John Young, and Gene Cernan flew to the Moon in May 1969 and paved the way for Apollo 11’s historic […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Just the Facts: Members of the press surround Kennedy Space Center Director Forrest McCartney following the successful launch of STS-28 and Space Shuttle Columbia on Aug. 8, 1989. The STS-28 mission was the fourth shuttle mission dedicated to the Department of Defense. Photo was taken at […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images Zooming In: Photographers perched near Complex 17 have Alan Shepard’s Redstone rocket at Complex 5 in their viewfinders. A classic Chevrolet station wagon sits in the foreground. The attempted launch of the first American in space was scrubbed on this morning of May 2, […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images A Birthday Remembered: Today we remember Apollo astronaut Neil Armstrong, who would have celebrated his 83rd birthday on August 5. Armstrong became a NASA astronaut in 1962 and is shown here in July 1965 while assigned as back-up command pilot for the Gemini 5 […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images “Falcon” on the Plain at Hadley: The Apollo 15 Lunar Module, shown on the surface of the Moon during the second EVA on August 1, 1971. Mission Commander David Scott and the Lunar Rover can be seen in the distance. Like what you see? Then check […] Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images All Eyes on “Falcon”: This was the scene in Mission Control as the flight control team monitored the descent to the lunar surface by the Apollo 15 lunar module “Falcon.” Astronauts Dave Scott and Jim Irwin touched down safely on the Hadley-Appenine region of […] |
 Next Launch Transporter 2 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: TBD Click here for more details...  NASA SLS : Artemis 1 mission launching late 2021 from Kennedy Space Center. Click HERE for more information.  |
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