This week marks half a century since the launch of Apollo 7. The photographs from that mission and those that followed still have the power to astonish
Fifty years ago this week, the first Apollo spacecraft to carry humans into space was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The sequence of missions begun by Apollo 7 would eventually see American astronauts land on the moon nine months later. The 11 manned Apollo flights that took place between 1968 and 1972 represent the greatest odyssey ever undertaken by our species and are revealed in majestic colour in the newly released Apollo VII to XVII, published by teNeues (£45).
The book is filled with startling colour images of fiery Apollo launches and spacecraft interiors as well as scenes of the bright blue disc of the Earth rising majestically over grey lunar plains. It is a dramatic evocation of just how swiftly the US manned space programme had advanced in only a few years since President John Kennedy had committed the US, in May 1961, to land a human on the moon by the end of the decade.
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