Vermot de Pas: NASA PHOTOGRAPHS - HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF SPACE

LARGE FORMAT. A superb photograph of space shuttle ENDEAVOUR (Mission STS-134) shot from a NASA training aircraft.

GEMINI 4 MISSION. HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPH. Astronaut ED WHITE performs the first American spacewalk.

A superb photograph of the planet Saturn in exquisitely detailed false colors. This photograph is a combination of three images taken in January 1998 by the Hubble Space Telescope and shows the ringed planet in reflected infrared light.

LARGE FORMAT. Fabulous and rare Earth survey observed by the LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER spacecraft from lunar orbit.

DEEP SPACE. VERY LARGE FORMAT. Carina Nebula.

LARGE FORMAT. Historic view of the 1st survey of the Earth observed by man from lunar orbit by the APOLLO 8 mission on December 24, 1968.

LARGE FORMAT. Historic photograph of the 1st untethered free-floating man in Space.

LARGE FORMAT. Space Shuttle Atlantis is featured in this image photographed by a member of the Expedition 23 crew aboard the International Space Station shortly after the Shuttle and Station began their relative separation after undocking.

LARGE FORMAT. Magnificent and rare observation of an exceptional solar flare.

57 seconds after liftoff, the space shuttle Discovery (Mission STS-102) marks its presence in the sky with a fantastic plume of deep pink smoke, thanks to nightfall.

Interplanetary. Colored view of Saturn's rings discovered in 1979 by the Voyager 1 probe.

A view of supermassive black hole M87 in polarized light. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which produced the first-ever image of a black hole published in 2019, today presents a new view of the massive object at the center of the Messier

Voyager 2. Moon Triton of the planet Neptune.

Spectacular view of the space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-71) docking for the 1st time with the Russian space station MIR. NASA and the Russian space agency kicked off a new era of international space cooperation in June 1995, when the space shuttle Atl

BIG FORMAT. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided images of Saturn in many colors, from black and white to orange, blue, green and red.

Magnificent observation of a red and green aurora borealis observed from Earth orbit.

This colorful cosmic rainbow represents a section of Saturn's magnificent rings, four centuries after their discovery by Galileo Galilei. Saturn's rings were first observed in 1610.

HUBBLE telescope. Infrared observation of the planet Saturn by the HUBBLE telescope.

Astrophysical photograph from Earth showing the M51 galaxy or "Whirlpool" galaxy located 27.4 million light-years from Earth.

Observation of major solar flares.

Rare observation of the planet Venus.

Impressive photograph of the International Space Station (ISS) during the U.S. space shuttle DISCOVERY (STS-116) mission.

Rare photograph of a Space Shuttle concept drawing depicting the Space Shuttle jettisoning its two solid-fuel booster rockets.

Rare photograph of a Space Shuttle concept drawing depicting the Space Shuttle jettisoning its belly tank.

Rare photograph of a Space Shuttle concept drawing depicting the Space Shuttle on its launch pad.