S66-25779_G08-H, Agena at 210 feet, motor end turned 45* toward Gemini VIII, sea, clouds, limb, sky in background, 1966
This website provides a fascinating insight as to the nature of the missions the astronauts went through but also the sights they saw.
From an artistic point of view it is hard to comment on the images effectively. They were taken by the astronauts for scientific and recording purposes, and as such weren't produced with artistic purposes in mind. the images in themselves are stunning pictures. They show us an insight to places and locations which (pending on budget cuts and future governments) virtually everyone will not get to see first hand.
S66-54537_G11-S, Ethiopia, Somali, French Somaliland, Saudi Arabia,
Yemen, south Arabia looking southeast Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Altitude =
35, 1966
I could personally spend hours trawling through these images, I find them an amazing insight to an experience which I will probably never experience.
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