When a private collector released a treasure trove of NASA images from the golden age of spaceflight for auction, there was only one image of the first man walking on the moon, after Armstrong sold the huge length of the auction to the highest bidder at the human court.

The July 1969 snapshot was the subject of a collection of 2,400 vintage photographs of 700 lots of chrysanthemums on the London website, the first selfie from space by Armstrong’s Apollo 11 chromate Buzz Aldrin and the Apocalyptic Arthritis photograph that captured the image of the planet. The horizon of the moon

Bidding for many of the photographs at the auction starts at ড 100 (about 13 132), which is being held online due to the coronavirus epidemic. Christie estimates that some well-known images will reach more than 50,000, 000 (50,000 66,000) individually.

“The collection is the most extensive private collection of NASA photographs presented at auction, and since the first day of Mercury, the technological advances in Gemini and lunar orbits have spread every visual milestone in the space program aimed at conquering Apollo,” Christian said in a press release.

“Through their cameras, astronaut-transformed artists were able to convey to mankind the beauty and glory of their experience in space, forever changing the way we view ourselves and our place in the universe.”

Traveling to another world: The Victor Martin-Melbourne photograph collection, which dates back to the early days of rocketry in the 1940s, is a chronological journey of mankind in the same color image as the first color image of the earth and the moon is the Voyager 1 space probe in 1977.

Martin-Malburet, a 39-year-old Frenchman who dreamed of becoming an astronaut since he was a teenager, when he collected space images, was amazed that parts of this collection have been displayed in different ways over the years.

Most recently, images from the Apollo missions of the 1960s and early 1970s visited several of Europe’s most prestigious art museums in the summer of 2019 to mark the 50th anniversary of the first human moon landing.

Although a small number of landmark photographs are known to space enthusiasts, the vast majority of the collection is visible to the public for the first time, hidden in archives for decades, and only seen by researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. , Or the Russian space agency Rozkosmos.

Other notable images for sale include Laika, the first dog to orbit the earth, awaiting launch in 1957 in a space capsule in the Soviet Union; The first shot of the back of the moon taken in 1959; Blue Marble, the first full image of the Earth from the human eye taken in 1972; And a few years after the Apollo 17 mission, Eugene Cornan and Harrison Schmidt were the last of 12 people to set foot on the moon.

Only four are still alive, including former U.S. Senators Smith, 85, and Aldrin, 90. Tweeted in June 2018 During his 19th flight66 flight over the Gemini 12. In 196666, he was proud to take the world’s first space selfie, saying, “It was an expensive selfie stick!” He wrote.

Armstrong, who made the historic statement: “A small step [a] Man, a huge leap for mankind. ”After setting foot on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969, he died of complications in 2012 after undergoing heart surgery, at the age of 82. NASA plans to land the first woman and the next man on the moon in early 2024, although the b 30 billion cost of its Artemis program will come under close scrutiny during the upcoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden.

Martin-Malburet, whose father was a prominent collector of 20th-century Avant-Garde art in Paris, collected his space from auctions, personal collectors and dealers, and some directly from astronauts themselves.

“Astronauts are often portrayed as great scientists and heroes but they are not acclaimed as the most notable photographers of all time,” he said. “They take pictures with skill and courage that instantly take on the iconography of excitement, surprise and amazement.”

Christian’s sales are divided into two parts, including bidding, until November 19 and 20, respectively.