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Space Craft Collection

Exploring the vastness of space through the lens of history

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Sunrise in Space by Leonov

Sunrise in Space by Leonov
" Sunrise in Space". Gouache on cardboard. A painting by Alexei Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut and artist

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Palenque Xtraterrestrial

Palenque Xtraterrestrial
Carving at PALENQUE, Mexico, which has been interpreted by ingenious theorists as depicting an ancient astronaut in a rocket- powered spacecraft

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Jupiter and Io, New Horizons image

Jupiter and Io, New Horizons image
Jupiter and Io. Montage of images of Jupiter (left) and its moon Io (right), obtained by the New Horizons spacecraft in February and March 2007 as it passed Jupiter on its way to Pluto

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: First US manned space flight, 1961

First US manned space flight, 1961. Redstone rocket launching the Freedom 7 capsule into space on 5th May 1961. This mission (Mercury-Redstone 3)

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Coyne Helicopter / Ufo

Coyne Helicopter / Ufo
Captain Lawrence J. Coyne, piloting a UH-1H helicopter observes a UFO at close quarters, the craft beaming a green light on the chopper near Mansfield, Ohio, USA

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Frau im Mond advert, 1929

Frau im Mond advert, 1929
Frau im Mond advert. The science fiction silent film Woman in the Moon (German: Frau im Mond), released in 1929, was written and directed by Austrian film-maker Fritz Lang

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Apollo spacecraft at the Moon, artwork

Apollo spacecraft at the Moon, artwork
Apollo spacecraft at the Moon. Artwork of the Apollo Lunar Module (LM, left, gold) and the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM, right, grey) at the Moon, with the Earth in the background

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Apollo Lunar Module interior

Apollo Lunar Module interior. Designed for a crew of two, the controls were used by the pilot to descend from lunar orbit to the Moons surface

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: UFOs over statues

UFOs over statues
UFOs over Easter Island statues. Computer artwork of spacecraft (unidentified flying objects, UFOs) hovering over moai statues

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Coloured pictorial plaque on Pioneer 10 and 11

Coloured pictorial plaque on Pioneer 10 and 11
Pioneer plaque. Coloured version of a pictorial plaque attached to the exterior of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecrafts, indicating their origin in case an intelligent alien species one day examines it

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Cubesat satellite

Cubesat satellite
Cubesat microsatellite on display at the 2010 International Astronautical Congress exhibition in Prague

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Cassini-Huygens probe at Saturn, artwork

Cassini-Huygens probe at Saturn, artwork

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: MARS MISSION, 1950s. American magazine illustration by Chesley Bonestell, early 1950s

MARS MISSION, 1950s. American magazine illustration by Chesley Bonestell, early 1950s, depicting an exploratory expedition to Mars preparing for its return flight to Earth

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Gemini 7 in orbit

Gemini 7 in orbit, seen from the Gemini 6A spacecraft during rendezvous manouvres. These two spacecraft launched separately, Gemini 7 on 4 December 1965, and Gemini 6A on 15 December 1965

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Vostok 1 spacecraft after landing, 1961

Vostok 1 spacecraft after landing, 1961
Vostok 1 descent module after landing in the Saratov region of Russia, in the USSR, on 12 April 1961. Vostok 1 was the first spacecraft to take a human into space

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Mars Exploration Rover

Mars Exploration Rover on the surface of Mars, artwork. The first of two identical NASA rovers, Spirit, landed on Mars on 4 January 2004

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Mars, composite satellite images

Mars, composite satellite images
Mars. Composite satellite images of the surface of Mars from multiple aspects. North is at top. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, and is a rocky desert world

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Curiosity rover on Mars, artwork

Curiosity rover on Mars, artwork

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Spacecraft on the Moon, lunar map

Spacecraft on the Moon, lunar map
Spacecraft on the Moon. Map showing coloured markers for 34 spacecraft that impacted or landed on the Moon from the 1960s onwards

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Venus radar map, North Pole

Venus radar map, North Pole
Venus radar map, centred on the Venusian North Pole. The map is colour-coded for altitude, going from low altitude (purple) through blue, green, yellow and orange to high altitude (red)

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Delta mission to the ISS, artwork

Delta mission to the ISS, artwork
Delta mission to the International Space Station (ISS) over the Netherlands, artwork. This mission (April 2004) included Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers and a variety of European science experiments

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Buran space shuttle landing

Buran space shuttle landing
The Buran orbiter landing at the Baikonur space center

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: WAR OF THE WORLDS, 1927. American science fiction magazine cover, 1927

WAR OF THE WORLDS, 1927. American science fiction magazine cover, 1927, illustrating The War of the Worlds by H. G
WAR OF THE WORLDS, 1927. American science fiction magazine cover, 1927, illustrating " The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Beagle 2 landing on Mars

Beagle 2 landing on Mars
Beagle 2 probe landing on Mars, computer artwork. Its heat shield is glowing as it falls through the Martian atmosphere. This British probe was carried to Mars by the European Space Agencys Mars

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Space walk

Space walk. Composite computer artwork of an astronaut working on the outside of a spacecraft. He is performing a space walk or EVA (extravehicular activity). Part of the Earth can be seen behind him

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Soviet lunar craft Zond 5, 1968

Soviet lunar craft Zond 5, 1968
Soviet lunar exploration craft Zond 5, being taken onboard the ship Vasilli Golovnin in Russia, 1968. Zond 5 was intended to be a precursor for Soviet manned Moon missions

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Model of Russian Molniya-1 satellite

Model of Russian Molniya-1 satellite
Molniya 1 communications satellite. Model of a Molniya-1 military communications satellite in its orbital configuration. Molniya-1 was the first attempt by the Soviet Union to provide satellite-based

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Kepler-10b exoplanet, artwork

Kepler-10b exoplanet, artwork
January 10, 2011 WASHINGTON -- NASAs Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Voyager spacecraft

Voyager spacecraft. Computer artwork of a Voyager spacecraft passing out of our solar system. Two Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Curiosity rover on Mars, artwork

Curiosity rover on Mars, artwork

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: UFOs, artwork

UFOs, artwork
UFOs. Computer artwork of flying saucer shaped UFOs (unidentified flying objects) flying through clouds

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Amazing Stories Scifi magazine cover, The Golden Planetoid

Amazing Stories Scifi magazine cover, The Golden Planetoid
THE GOLDEN PLANETOID - A mysterious alien spacecraft lands in the Russian steppes Date: 1935

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Soyuz docking mission, news reports, 1969

Soyuz docking mission, news reports, 1969
Front-page Western news reports on the Soviet Soyuz docking mission of January 1969, the first time two manned spacecraft had docked

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Apollo 16 lunar rover, artwork

Apollo 16 lunar rover, artwork
Apollo 16 lunar rover. Artwork of the US astronaut John Watts Young (born 1930) driving a lunar rover on a performance test run on the Moons surface

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Apollo lunar rover, artwork

Apollo lunar rover, artwork. Two Apollo astronauts in a lunar rover, exploring on the Moon. Their lunar landing module is at upper left

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: UFO: PARIS. Photograph of UFOs in Paris, France

UFO: PARIS. Photograph of UFOs in Paris, France

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Fantasy Spacecraft, Fantastic Adventures Scifi Magazine Covers

Fantasy Spacecraft, Fantastic Adventures Scifi Magazine Covers
A Spaceship blasts away from a dying planet in this Science Fiction Magazine cover

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Von Daniken Cover

Von Daniken Cover
Erich von Danikens book Chariots of the Gods in which he argues that UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft which have been visiting Earth throughout human history

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Launch of the Apollo 8 spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photograph, 1968

Launch of the Apollo 8 spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photograph, 1968
APOLLO 8: LAUNCH, 1968. Launch of the Apollo 8 spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photograph, 1968

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Spacecraft model, Soviet exhibition, 1927

Spacecraft model, Soviet exhibition, 1927
Spacecraft model from a Soviet exhibition held in 1927. This interplanetary spacecraft model was built by the Baltic German Soviet rocket engineer Friedrich Zander (18871933)

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Mars 96 surface station, artwork

Mars 96 surface station, artwork
Mars 96 surface station. Artwork showing one of the surface stations of the Russian Mars 96 mission landing on Mars after being released from orbit

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Nuclear-powered spacecraft, artwork

Nuclear-powered spacecraft, artwork
Nuclear-powered spacecraft at Ganymede, computer artwork. Ganymede is one of the moons of Jupiter. The spacecraft is powered by nuclear fusion, the same process that takes place in the Sun

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, Soviet engineer

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, Soviet engineer

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Astronaut descending Lunar Module ladder

Astronaut descending Lunar Module ladder
Astronaut descending ladder of Apollo Lunar Module at the National Air & Space Museum, Washington DC. The lunar module is a flight model spacecraft (LM-2)

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Meccano Apollo lunar module

Meccano Apollo lunar module on display at the National Space Centre, Leicester, UK. According to the label, the 2579 pieces were assembled by " the MeccanoTeam, Calais, France" in 257 hours

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Kepler-10b exoplanet, artwork

Kepler-10b exoplanet, artwork
January 10, 2011 WASHINGTON -- NASAs Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Moons surface, Zond 3 image

Moons surface, Zond 3 image
Moons surface. Photocopy of an image taken by the Soviet lunar probe Zond 3, on 1st September 1966, showing the cratered surface of the far side of the Moon

Background imageSpace Craft Collection: Spacewalk

Spacewalk. Astronaut in a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) spacewalking above the Earth. MMUs are nitrogen-propelled hand-controlled propulsion units used by Nasa on three space shuttle missions in



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Exploring the vastness of space through the lens of history and imagination ✨🚀✨ From Leonov's breathtaking 'Sunrise in Space' to the enigmatic 'Palenque Xtraterrestrial', these captivating images transport us beyond our earthly boundaries. Witnessing the Coyne Helicopter/UFO encounter leaves us questioning what lies beyond our comprehension, while gazing at Jupiter and Io captured by New Horizons fills us with wonder. Reliving the monumental first US manned space flight in 1961 reminds us of humanity's relentless pursuit of knowledge. Gemini 7 gracefully orbits above, a testament to human ingenuity. Step inside Apollo Lunar Module and experience its interior, where dreams were turned into reality. Behold an artwork depicting Apollo spacecraft at the Moon, reminding us that even art can capture cosmic aspirations. UFOs hovering over statues ignite curiosity about extraterrestrial presence among ancient civilizations. Cubesat satellite showcases technological advancements propelling exploration forward. The Cassini-Huygens probe at Saturn takes our breath away as we marvel at its beauty through artistic interpretation.