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Human Space Exploration (limited) { 22 images } Created 4 Nov 2021

Limited Edition prints from exclusive behind the scenes photographs of a few historic, high profile NASA human and robotic space exploration missions.

LIMITED PRINT EDITIONS:
17 x 22 - 20 prints
24 x 30 - 12 prints
30 x 40 - 7 prints

LIMITED PRINT EDITIONS:
Infinite Worlds Wide Field
12 x 20 - 20 prints
18 x 30 - 12 prints
24 x 40 - 5 prints

With unprecedented multi-year access to these NASA missions, photographed on film-based Black & White, color negative and digital capture, were the final space shuttle servicing mission to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the ten year NASA New Horizons mission to the Pluto system — the first robotic exploration of the outer solar system and the Parker Solar Probe, the first spacecraft to fly within about 3.9 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) of the Sun.

Some of these select images from the Shuttle - Hubble era were edited for my book "Infinite Worlds - the People and Places of Space Exploration" published by Simon & Schuster.

They have also been exhibited in museum venues like NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City and published in other books like "NASA at 60" and in numerous high profile media.

Images from my behind-the-scenes documentation of the New Horizons Pluto and the Parker Solar Probe missions have also appeared in numerous online and print media like the front page of the New York Times and in the definitive "The Pluto System after New Horizons" published by the University of Arizona Press and New Scientist Magazine.
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  • The last Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission launches STS125 Atlantis from NASA's Kennedy Space Center 2:01 PM May 11, 2009.
    LAUNCH STS125 Atlantis SM4 Hubble.jpg
  • Dramatic remote camera black & white launch of STS125 shuttle Atlantis headed for Hubble Space Telescope for the last time.
    Launch of STS125 Atlantis on Hubble ..jpgn
  • Cockpit window of Space Shuttle DISCOVERY on black & white film, prior to return to flight.
    Shutttle Cockpit Window.jpg
  • Shuttle Atlantis, STS 125, being transported on its Mobile Launch Platform to launch pad 39A
    Space Shuttle Atlantis STS 125 rolli...jpg
  • Crawler Tech during 3.5 mile rollout of STS125 Atlantis to launch pad 39A.
    Shuttle Crawler Technician.jpg
  • Close up of Space Shuttle External Fuel Tank on launch pad a few days before launch.
    Space Shuttle External Fuel Tank on ...jpg
  • Historic: two space shuttles on their launch pads at sunrise: STS 125 Atlantis on Pad 39A and, one mile away, rescue STS400 Endeavour on Pad 39B
    two space shuttles on their launch p...jpg
  • Portrait in black & white of K. MEGAN MCARTHUR (PH.D.) STS125 Hubble SM4 Robotic Arm  engineer, for final servicing mission to Hubble Space Telescope, May 2009 —  contributor, "Infinite Worlds - the people and places of space exploration"
    Portrait Megan McArthur.jpg
  • Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit astronaut gloves and helmet used during underwater training for Hubble SM4 at NASA's Johnson Space Center Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL).
    EMU helmet and gloves for NBL traini...jpg
  • Infra-red black & white photograph of space shuttle STS 125 Atlantis on launch pad 39A, several weeks before launch in May 2009.
    Shuttle Atlantis On Pad in B&W I...jpg
  • Nose cone of the Space Shuttle's External Fuel Tank and one of the solid rocket boosters on black & white film at the 215 foot (66 meter) level of the launch pad service structure.
    Space Shuttle fuel tank from 215 lev...jpg
  • Historic photograph of Space Shuttle Atlantis on launchpad Pad 39A at midnight.
    Space Shuttle Atlantis on launchpad ...jpg
  • Spacecraft as sculpture - With extraordinary access, the New Horizons space craft photographed on color negative film during a spin test in high bay at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, June 2005.<br />
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New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by Alan Stern, the spacecraft was launched on Jan. 19, 2006 on an Atlas V with the primary mission of performing a flyby study of the Pluto system 9.5 years later in 2015, and a secondary mission that flew by and studied the Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth. It is the fifth space probe to achieve the escape velocity needed to leave the Solar System. <br />
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This image was published on the front page of the New York Times several days after the first flyby of the Pluto system on July 14, 2015.
    New Horizons Spin Test GSFC.jpg
  • spacecraft as sculpture - still life of titanium telescope assembly structure for NASA New Horizons LORRI camera system designed to operate in the sub-zero, hostile environs of interplanetary space.
    New Horizons LORRI camera lens mount...jpg
  • spacecraft as sculpture - still life of NASA New Horizons graphite composite Telescope baffle casing that protects the telescope assembly for the LORRI CCD digital capture system designed to operate in the sub-zero, hostile environs of interplanetary space.
    New Horizons LORRI Carbonite Telesco...jpg
  • spacecraft as sculpture - New Horizons LORRI CCD digital capture system and its 1024 × 1024 pixel thinned, backside-illuminated charge-coupled device detector. LORRI has no color filters or moving parts.
    New Horizons LORRI CCD imaging syste...jpg
  • Atlas V launch of New Horizons to the Pluto system Jan 19, 2006    Black & White film - remote camera less than 300 feet from launch pad
    New Horizons Launch 19Jan2006.jpg
  • spacecraft as sculpture - the TPS (Thermal Protection System) is a 4.5-inch-thick, carbon-carbon, carbon foam shield that sits atop the spacecraft body protecting it   from the sun's temperatures exceeding 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.
    PSP carbon carbon foam shield_Angle ...jpg
  • spacecraft as sculpture - the enabling technology for NASA's Parker Solar Probe is the Thermal Protection System (TPS).  It measures (2.3 meter) 8 feet in diameter, 4.5-inch-thick, carbon-carbon, carbon foam shield that sits atop the spacecraft body. The system will protect the Probe from temperatures exceeding 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit as it flies through the Sun’s outer atmosphere.
    Parker Solar Probe Thermal Protectio...jpg
  • spacecraft as sculpture - the TPS (Thermal Protection System) is a 4.5-inch-thick, carbon-carbon, carbon foam shield that sits atop the spacecraft body protecting it   from the sun's temperatures exceeding 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.
    PSP carbon carbon foam shield_Angle ...jpg
  • First sunrise photographed from Earth orbit by John Glenn on Feb 20,1962 - scanned from original 35mm color negative film.
    John Glenn first orbital sunrise.jpg
  • Conceptual montage: Hubble deep field image of galaxies and astronaut John Grunsfeld during last EVA at Hubble Space Telescope May 2009.
    Iinfinite Worlds Hubble Wide Field C...jpg