Video: "For all Mankind": 1964-1983 NASA photographic exhibition
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A scenic haze obscuring the rocket launch. Surreal view of a lone satellite in orbit. Dreamy crescent moon of the waning moon. These are just a few of the stunning images hidden deep in NASA's photo archives.
The time has passed when almost 20% of preschool children proudly declared that when they grow up, they will be astronauts. Passions around the conquest of space subsided, people focused on more mundane problems. But the cosmic romance is still alive in the hearts of those who celebrated April 21, listened to "Earthlings" on the radio and watched the film "Moscow-Cassiopeia" on TV (as an option - listened to VKontakte audio recordings and downloaded from torrents).
Although news from space is not heard at all during talks about the economic crisis, our pragmatic time compares favorably with the period of the space race in that more and more images and videos are published in the public domain. Including those that have been kept "under lock and key" for decades.
For example, thanks to the curators of the For all Mankind exhibition, which will soon open at the Breese Little Gallery in London, space lovers will have the opportunity to look into the NASA archives of 1964-1983, see rare documentary footage, and enjoy the unearthly beauty extraterrestrial landscapes.
The exhibition will feature over a hundred photographs taken by men, women and robots during one of the most exciting and turbulent periods in the history of space exploration.
“The lofty rhetoric of John F. Kennedy, upon which the American space program was founded, has fallen into decay under the pressure of new realities,” the exhibition curators explain in the accompanying materials, implying the emergence of the space tourism industry and the commercialization of the dream of conquering the galaxy. "And yet, without a doubt, space exploration is one of the most important milestones on the path of humanity to self-knowledge."
Over the past two centuries, we, humanity, have been able to reach only a tiny piece of our own solar system. But the knowledge gained is enough to more or less plausibly simulate images of celestial bodies and beyond.
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