British photographer Benedict Redgrove has taken photographs of numerous artefacts within the NASA archive. To mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, he has picked out his favourites.
Over the past nine years Redgrove has photographed items within the security-sealed NASA archive for an upcoming book called NASA ? Past and present dreams of the future.
The book will contain more than 200 images of items used on NASA missions over the past five decades, including space suits, spacecraft and numerous tools used by the astronauts.
The 50th anniversary of the first man landing on the moon in 1969 takes place tomorrow, and it is the moon landings that first got Redgrove interested in space exploration.
Redgrove photographed 200 items in the NASA archives "I know your first memories are subjective, but as far as I can recollect, my earliest memory is being in a pram, in a dark room with the curtains pulled closed and seeing a grainy black and white picture of man walking on the moon," he told Dezeen.
"I was born in May 1969, so I doubt that was the first landing, but it's my earliest memory."
Redgrove photographed each of the artefacts using technical cameras, with some photographs made up of a composite of over 60 exposures to capture them in extreme detail.
After photographing, Redgrove re-touched the photos to remove the backgrounds so that they can be viewed without distraction.
The Apollo 11 Command Module was photographed for the book
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