Vermot de Pas: NASA Photographs

Photograph taken at the Mount Wilson Observatory during the 1930s.

Gemini IV mission on June 3, 1965.

The first Earth survey observed from the Moon by the Apollo 8 Mission.

LARGE FORMAT. Apollo 11 mission.

Apollo 11 mission. July 20, 1969. The ascent of the lunar module with astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin, who had just walked on the Moon, is photographed from the Apollo 11 mission control module by Collins.

Historic photograph of the last man to walk on the Moon, astronaut Eugene Cernan in front of the American flag as the extraordinary vision of a blue planet rises into the lunar sky: Earth.

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II (Space Shuttle Mission STS 41-B), participates in a historic spacewalk.

This photograph shows a tricolor composite of the famous Crab Nebula.

A perfect photograph of a space "full moon" taken from lunar orbit by the automatic spacecraft "LRO".

NASA's Curiosity robot regularly makes self-portraits to report on the state of its structures.

Magnificent mosaic photograph of the extraordinary planet Mars, which in the decades to come will welcome Man to write a new page of our human civilization.

This extraordinary scientific photograph is the result of processing the multi-wavelength mixing of the space telescope that observes the sun from four synchronized optics.

Historical view of astronaut Ed White performing the first American spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission.

Apollo 11. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin poses in front of the American flag unfurled on the lunar ground on July 20, 1969.

Apollo 10 mission. Beautiful view of the Moon as the Apollo 10 Mission Control Module is transferred from lunar orbit to Earth.

Historical 1st photograph ever taken on the surface of a planet in the solar system: MARCH.

Superb view of the experimental plane X-3 STILETTO USAF-DOUGLAS after its first flight on the US Air Force base of Langley in Viriginia.

Photograph of astronaut Buzz Aldrin in his cosmonaut suit.

Apollo 16. Astronaut John W. Young stands in the shadow of the lunar module behind the ultraviolet camera operating on the lunar ground.

Viking Mission. Rare original image edited by the scientists as soon as the signals from the VIKING probes were received on Earth.

Fantastic view of the globe floating under the open payload bay of Space Shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-43).

As if hovering like a celestial bird high above the Earth's surface, the magnificent silhouette of the Russian spacecraft PROGRESS stands out from the docking module of the International Space Station (ISS), where the deep black of the space vacuum contra

Historical photograph of the soil of the planet MARS taken by the MARINER IV space probe from a distance of 7800 miles.

Mission Apollo 15. Beautiful view of the imposing silhouette of the Saturn V rocket on its transport cart to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral.

Space Shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS 51-J) is ready to launch from its launch pad at Complex 39 at Cape Canaveral.