Neil Armstrong’s Biggest Jump Sells To Auctioneer After A Private Collector Releases A Treasure Collection NASA Images from the golden age of space travel, including a photo of the first man to walk on the moon.

The July 1969 snapshot Christie’s London website highlights a collection of 2,400 vintage images in 700 lots The first selfie from space Armstrong’s Apollo 11 Chromate Bus Aldrin and always Earthrise Photograph of a rising planet above the lunar horizon.

Bidding starts at £ 100 (approximately 2,132) for several photographs in Auction, It happens online because of the corona virus pandemic. Christie estimates that some of the more well-known films will fetch more than $ 50,000 ($ 66,000) in person.

“This collection is the most comprehensive private collection of NASA photographs ever presented at auction. In a press release Encourages sales.

“Through their cameras, astronauts have been able to convey to mankind the beauty and depth of the astronauts’ experience, changing us and our place in the universe forever.”

Journey to Another World: The Victor Martin-Malburet Photographic Collection is a chronological journey into the achievements of mankind in space. The first days of rocketry Until the first color photograph of the Earth and the Moon in the 1940s Same still image, Taken from the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1977.

Martin-Malburrett, a 39-year-old Frenchman, has been collecting pictures of astronauts since he was a teenager, and parts of the collection have been on display in various guises for years.

Most recently, images from the Apollo missions of the 1960s and early 1970s visited several popular art museums in Europe over the summer of 2019 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first human moon landing.

Although the number of landmark photographs is very small and familiar to space lovers, most of the collection appears for the first time in public, hidden in archives for decades and previously only seen by researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. , Or the Russian space agency Roscosmos.

Includes Laika, the first dog to orbit the Earth. Waiting for the launch On a spacecraft in the Soviet Union in 1957; First shot The back of the moon Taken in 1959; Blue marble, The first complete photograph of the Earth from human eyes taken in 1972; Many from the Apollo 17 mission at the end of that year, Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt, the last of the 12 men to land on the moon.

Only four are still alive, including former U.S. Senators Schmidt (85) and Aldrin (90). Tweeted in June 2018 He is proud to have taken the world’s first space selfie on the 1966 Gemini 12. “It was a precious selfie stick!” He wrote.

Speaking of historical words, Armstrong said: “A small step [a] Man, a colossal leap for humanity. ”On July 20, 1969, after stepping into a lunar eclipse, the 82-year-old died of a heart attack in 2012. NASA plans to launch the first woman and the next man to the moon in 2024 b up to 30bn Its Artemis program will be scrutinized during the administration of President-elect Joe Biden.

Martin-Malburrett was a leading collector of twentieth-century avant-garde art in Paris, acquiring space collections directly from auctions, private collectors, dealers, and astronauts.

“Astronauts are often portrayed as great scientists and heroes, but they are rarely praised as important photographers of all time,” he said. “Photographs that capture them with skill and mastery, and immediately embrace the econography of the supernatural and the inspiring.”

Christie’s sale is divided into two parts, and the auction will take place until November 19 and 20, respectively.