{"id":16561,"date":"2024-11-14T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T14:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/14\/the-most-expensive-photos-ever-taken-the-space-shots-that-changed-humanitys-view-of-itself\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T14:37:24","slug":"the-most-expensive-photos-ever-taken-the-space-shots-that-changed-humanitys-view-of-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/14\/the-most-expensive-photos-ever-taken-the-space-shots-that-changed-humanitys-view-of-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The most expensive photos ever taken\u2019: the space shots that changed humanity\u2019s view of itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taken at 28,000kmh and costing billions of dollars, the first ever photos taken by astronauts are on show at Paris Photo. For Nasa print dealer Daniel Blau, they are proof that nothing is impossible when nations collaborate<\/p>\n

It was one of history\u2019s monumental moments \u2013 but if John Glenn<\/a> hadn\u2019t popped into the supermarket to pick up a Contax camera and a roll of 35mm film on his way to board the Friendship 7, there may have been no visual document of it. The photographs the American astronaut took from the window of his capsule as he orbited Earth on 20 February 1962 gave an unprecedented testimony of the Mercury Project\u2019s first orbital mission. The Soviet Union might have beaten the Americans in the race to human spaceflight \u2013 but the Americans had now shot the first galactic colour photographs.<\/p>\n

The pictures are also, German gallerist Daniel Blau points out, \u201cthe most expensive photographs ever taken. Billions of dollars were spent to get them.\u201d Blau exhibited an original print of Glenn\u2019s first picture taken in space at this year\u2019s Paris Photo<\/a>, alongside a cache of rare Nasa photographic prints \u2013 many of them never publicly seen before, most of them by unknown scientists and astronauts.<\/p>\n

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\nTaken at 28,000kmh and costing billions of dollars, the first ever photos taken by astronauts are on show at Paris Photo. For Nasa print dealer Daniel Blau, they are proof that nothing is impossible when nations collaborate
\nIt was one of history\u2019s monumental moments \u2013 but if John Glenn hadn\u2019t popped into the supermarket to pick up a Contax camera and a roll of 35mm film on his way to board the Friendship 7, there may have been no visual document of it. The photographs the American astronaut took from the window of his capsule as he orbited Earth on 20 February 1962 gave an unprecedented testimony of the Mercury Project\u2019s first orbital mission. The Soviet Union might have beaten the Americans in the race to human spaceflight \u2013 but the Americans had now shot the first galactic colour photographs.
\nThe pictures are also, German gallerist Daniel Blau points out, \u201cthe most expensive photographs ever taken. Billions of dollars were spent to get them.\u201d Blau exhibited an original print of Glenn\u2019s first picture taken in space at this year\u2019s Paris Photo, alongside a cache of rare Nasa photographic prints \u2013 many of them never publicly seen before, most of them by unknown scientists and astronauts. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taken at 28,000kmh and costing billions of dollars, the first ever photos taken by astronauts are on show at Paris Photo. For Nasa print dealer Daniel Blau, they are proof that nothing is impossible when nations collaborate It was one of history\u2019s monumental moments \u2013 but if John Glenn hadn\u2019t popped into the supermarket to …<\/p>\n

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