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Ground control to Major Collector: Choose any three [artworks](http://www.20x200.com/artist/273-20x200-artist-fund?utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=20x200%20Announcements&utm_campaign=Space%20Collection%20recap&utm_content=A) from 20x200's series of archival space prints today and get 30 percent off your purchase! Use the code __LIFTWITHART__. The curators at 20x200 select, retouch, and frame these public-domain images as exhibition-quality prints. Proceeds benefit the [20x200](http://www.20x200.com/) Artist Fund. Exclusive Deal for Wired Readers! ---------------------------------- Use the code __APOLLO5__ and get $5 off for the next 14 days at 20x200. This offer can be used only once, and not in combination with the above promotion. - Limited-edition, exclusive to 20x200 - Museum quality: archival inks, 100 percent cotton rag paper - Includes a certificate of authenticity - Available framed or print only __PHOTO ABOVE:__ With men floating in space and a flurry of flames bursting across the sky, our journey into space continues with two more Apollo images from the NASA archives, released in support of the 20x200 Artist Fund: an artist’s rendering of extravehicular activities in S69-18547, and the launch of a Saturn V rocket, photographed from a chase plane, in S68-27366. S69-18547 imagines, in full color and detail, what might be, and S68-27366 documents what was: a blur of fire and rocket seemingly fused together. Each depicts what is hard to fathom — the making of what seemed impossible, possible. *All images and caption information courtesy of 20x200*
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S75-20361 is a rendering of the American crew insignia of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. The names of all five crew members and the words “Apollo” in English and “Soyuz” in Russian encircle an artist’s concept of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft, moments before docking in Earth orbit. The white stars on the blue background represent American astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, commander; Vance D. Brand, command module pilot; and Donald (Deke) K. Slayton, docking module pilot. The dark gold stars on the red background represent Soviet cosmonauts Aleksey A. Leonov, commander, and Valeriy N. Kubasov, engineer. As shown in S75-27288, Soyuz and Apollo were launched separately from the USSR and United States, then docked together for two days, allowing for the astronauts to come aboard each spacecraft via a docking module. The mission was a resounding success for both nations, not only as a space flight, but also as a practical expression of the cooperation that existed at the time between the United States and Soviet Union.
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AS07-08-1933 was taken in 1968 from the Apollo 7 spacecraft — the first manned mission in the Apollo program — as it hovered 120 nautical miles above the Gulf of Mexico. Morning sunlight floods the sky and beams of light pour down over the Florida peninsula in the background.
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Oct. 11, 1968 was a warm day at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, but a cool breeze rustled through palm fronds, comforting trousered onlookers — captured in black and white in S68-48662 as the Apollo 7 lifted off. As the astronauts experienced their first liquid hydrogen-fueled ride, commander Walter M. Schirra Jr. reported, “She is riding like a dream.” The crew orbited the Earth for 11 days, sending back the first live television broadcast from an American spacecraft.
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In July 1975, an Apollo spacecraft with a crew of three docked in space with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and its crew of two. S75-27288 is an artist’s rendering of the mission: The American flight is traced in orange and the Soviets’ in purple — both circling the Earth, meeting to rendezvous in space and safely detaching and returning to their respective homes. The mission carried out according to plan and was also hailed as significant for the expression of cooperation that existed then between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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In S68-49389, taken over two months before the launch of Apollo 8, the spacecraft (atop the Saturn V rocket) is slowly, carefully being transported from the Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to Pad A, Launch Complex 39, a three-mile journey. Over the course of the next two months, the spacecraft would undergo a series of tests, which continued until the day before the launch. Although it was the second crewed mission in the Apollo space program, Apollo 8 produced a series of awe-inspiring firsts, and it helped pave the way for subsequent missions, including the Moon landing. Many challenges faced the crew and its mission: an accelerated schedule, which left the astronauts less time to train and prepare; ruptured fuel lines and bad igniter lines, which were fixed a mere three days before the scheduled launch; and a success rate that the crew themselves thought was only 50-50. Despite all this, the Apollo 8 astronauts became the first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit; the first to be captured by (and then escape) the gravitational field of another celestial body; the first to see Earth as a whole planet and the first to directly see the far side of the Moon. While orbiting the Moon, the crew also became the first humans to witness (and photograph) [Earthrise](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise).
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GPN-2002-000059 is an elegant black-and-white shot of the Apollo 17 spacecraft descending via parachute over the Pacific Ocean in 1972. Apollo 17 was the final mission of the Apollo program—missions 18 through 20 were planned but then cancelled to free up funding for the then-in-development space shuttle program. The three astronauts onboard Apollo 17 were returning from a lunar landing that, to this date, still stands as the last one ever conducted.
