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The launch of a spacecraft has always remained a spectacular moment, whether experienced in reality or viewed through films or still images.
Photography, whether in color or black and white, succeeds in capturing the impressive and unique spectacle of a spacecraft launch. The machine — the product of human technology — stages, in an outburst of fire and flames, the full force deployed by mankind in its effort to successfully overcome one of the fundamental forces of our universe: gravity.
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NASA. Launch of the Apollo 10 mission in a “fish-eye” view on May 18, 1969.
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NASA. Launch of the Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 11 crew toward the Moon on July 16, 1969.
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NASA. Apollo 11 mission. Rare view of the Saturn V rocket at launch. This photograph belongs to a sequence of mainly three iconic images made by placing a camera at the top of the rocket’s launch tower by the famous photographer RALPH MORSE.
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NASA. Apollo 11 mission. Rare view of the Saturn V rocket at launch. This photograph belongs to a sequence of mainly three iconic images made by placing a camera at the top of the rocket’s launch tower by the famous photographer RALPH MORSE.
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NASA. Apollo 11 mission. Launch of the 353-foot-tall Saturn V rocket carrying the historic crew of American astronauts who will accomplish the extraordinary feat of walking on the Moon for the first time.
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NASA. Launch of the Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 11 crew toward the Moon on July 16, 1969.
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NASA. Apollo XI. The Saturn V rocket being moved toward its launch pad at Kennedy Space Center less than two months before its launch.
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NASA. APOLLO 13 MISSION. Superb launch of the SATURN V rocket carrying into space the astronauts of the famous APOLLO 13 mission, who would never walk on the Moon following a serious incident but would nevertheless bring back superb photographic images, notably made during their flyby.
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Vintage NASA photograph of the Apollo 13 Saturn V lifting off from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970.
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Vintage NASA photograph of the Apollo 13 Saturn V standing on Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center on March 24, 1970.
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NASA. APOLLO 13 mission. Impressive nighttime view of the space architecture of the SATURN V rocket standing beside its famous and unique red-painted metal launch structure.
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NASA. Launch of the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo 16 mission from Cape Kennedy.
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NASA. Superb photograph of the final SATURN V rocket of the most prestigious space, scientific and human program of all time, shining brightly on “Pad A” at Launch Complex 39, Cape Kennedy.
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NASA. Atlas-Agena rocket, O.G. 0.1 satellite.
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NASA. Launch of the Atlas-Agena target vehicle from Cape Kennedy on July 18, 1966, for the Gemini X mission.
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NASA / U.S. Air Force. Atlas-Centaur AC-1, consisting of Atlas 104D and the Centaur F-1 upper stage, at Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral, photographed on April 20, 1962, during preparations for the first Atlas-Centaur flight.
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NASA. Launch of the Atlas-Centaur rocket carrying the Surveyor 1 probe.
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NASA. Launch of the first Titan II rocket from Cape Canaveral on March 16, 1962.
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NASA. Launch of Gemini IV from Cape Kennedy on June 3, 1965, carrying Ed White, the first American to venture outside a spacecraft into space.
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NASA. Close-up night view of the Gemini-Titan 1 rocket on its launch pad.
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NASA. Launch of the Ranger VII probe.
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NASA. Night launch of Space Shuttle Discovery for mission STS-63.
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NASA. Intentional photographic double exposure showing the Saturn V rocket on the left and the Saturn IB rocket on the right. The two rockets shown would respectively carry the Skylab 1 and Skylab 2 laboratories into space.
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NASA photograph: Saturn V Launch (April 16, 1972).
