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Gerald
10-31-10, 02:19 PM
Moon Buggy

Few species of photograph are as purely, simply awe-inspiring as those taken of—or from—the outer reaches of space. We've collected our 21 favorites. Case in point? Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan takes a ride on the moon, December, 1972, fulfilling, by proxy, the dreams of both nerds and gearheads everywhere.

http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/30222/21-greatest-ever-space-photos
Dowly
10-31-10, 02:37 PM
Most memorable maybe, but greatest? No way.
Biggles
10-31-10, 02:43 PM
No exploding Death Star? :yawn:
Gerald
10-31-10, 04:12 PM
Most memorable maybe, but greatest? No way. but I chose not entitled, :D
bookworm_020
11-01-10, 05:31 AM
A couple of the images have an interesting story. The Apollo 9 shot, was a little bit of a fluke. Rusty Schweickart took the shot as he waited for Dave Scott to fix a camera. This gave him three minutes to just take photo's and enjoy the view! He never went back into space ad he suffered space sickness. He still counts the three minutes watching the world go by as one of the most amazing moments in his life.

The photo of Joe Kittinger free falling reminded me that one of things that happened on the way up was his suit sprung a leak, so he covered it with his hand and didn't tell anyone! On the way down for two and half minutes he fell through space and the only thing he could hear was the sound of his breathing and his heartbeat!

Great photo's!:yeah:
krashkart
11-01-10, 06:55 AM
I can't imagine free falling from that far up. My personal record is twelve feet. :haha:
Gerald
11-01-10, 07:11 AM
The feeling of falling so there must was amazing, but all a bit scary when you have no real control of the situation,but yet very beautiful...
Schroeder
11-01-10, 07:39 AM
A Star Trek picture is among the greatest?:damn:

Apart from that it's a great collection.
tater
11-01-10, 08:23 AM
That trek picture looks too modern. Didn't they redo the old series a few years ago and jazz up the special effects?
razark
11-01-10, 08:43 AM
19. ...The beauty of this shot, aside from the clarity of the image, stems from its casual humor: 15 years after the epic of the Apollo moon landing, humans are comfortbale enough in space to indulge in goofy jokes.
Yeah. They were doing goofy jokes since the very beginning.

A Star Trek picture is among the greatest?
I'd argue that it is somewhat appropriate. A lot of people got their first taste of space exploration from that show, and went on to do whatever they did to further that dream.

That trek picture looks too modern. Didn't they redo the old series a few years ago and jazz up the special effects?
Yes:
...a still from the digitally edited version of Star Trek's premiere episode.

Number 16 surprised me. I didn't realize anyone had gotten that good a picture of the moon that long ago.
Nice collection.
bookworm_020
11-02-10, 03:56 AM
I can't imagine free falling from that far up. My personal record is twelve feet. :haha:

I would love to do a jump from that high. The ultimate leap of faith!:rock:

"Infinite wisdom requires infinite perspective!"
krashkart
11-02-10, 04:11 AM
I would love to do a jump from that high. The ultimate leap of faith!:rock:

"Infinite wisdom requires infinite perspective!"

It would be absolutely amazing. :DL
Sledgehammer427
11-02-10, 05:13 AM
did it say he hit somewhere in the ballpark of 600mph?

freefalling at (or near) the speed of sound....:oWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
:haha:
:hmmm:
antikristuseke
11-02-10, 05:50 AM
It lacked one of my own personal favorites.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Crab_Nebula.jpg
Sailor Steve
11-02-10, 10:43 AM
This is my personal favorite:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/Earth.jpg
AngusJS
11-02-10, 10:59 AM
Wow, so the Soviets never took any great photos?

And why are there no photos of Saturn, or of other galaxies?
antikristuseke
11-02-10, 11:01 AM
Because space travel is a lie, the Earth is flat and 6000 years old, human beings lived with dinosaurs and evolution does not exist.
TLAM Strike
11-02-10, 12:23 PM
Because space travel is a lie, the Earth is flat and 6000 years old, human beings lived with dinosaurs and evolution does not exist.
:hmmm: Not entirely wrong...

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/9831/squareearth.jpg
Sailor Steve
11-02-10, 03:40 PM
Wow, so the Soviets never took any great photos?
You have to remember, all this stuff Vender keeps posting are photos from LIFE magazine, no other source.

And why are there no photos of Saturn, or of other galaxies?
Because it's put together by the editors of LIFE, and reflects what they consider great.