A Guide to the NASA Space Exploration Photograph Collection, circa 1965-1976

Historical Note

NASA unmanned space probes launched during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s produced a variety of 4x5 inch computer-generated negatives from radio-telemetric data of the solar system. In 1986, the curators of 25 Years of Space Photography: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, an exhibition and catalogue from 1985-1986, gave five negatives to a senior project leader at NASA. Subsequently, Blackpoint Editions used these original negatives, scanned as 2400 dpi files, to make the carbon pigment prints donated to the Briscoe Center.

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Scope and Contents

The five prints in the NASA space exploration photographs collection were made from original digital images and document NASA’s early space exploration from approximately 1967 to 1976. Subjects depicted in the images include the surface of Mars, the surface of the moon and the Copernicus Crater, Earth, and an unknown celestial object, possibly one of Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede. The photographs were made from a number of NASA’s spacecraft, including Viking Lander 1, lunar orbiters, Mariner 10, and Voyager.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

NASA Space Exploration Photographs, circa 1965-1976, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Amy Bowman in May 2012.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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