The NASA Photo Book
From NASA’s Early Flights to ArtemisNASA’s story in pictures, from its first flights to Artemis II and the far side of the Moon. More than 340 restored photographs in ten eras, each built around a new way of seeing and opening with a short essay on what NASA set out to do.
NASA’s story, told in pictures.
Since 1958, NASA has photographed nearly everything it has done, and its archive now runs to millions of frames: film carried to the Moon and back, rolls shot from the Shuttle, pictures radioed home by machines that were never coming back. The NASA Photo Book brings that story together in more than 340 restored photographs, from Mercury, Gemini and Apollo to the Space Station, from Voyager and the Mars rovers to Hubble, Webb and Artemis II.
The pictures the world knows are all here: Earthrise and the Blue Marble, the first bootprint, Bruce McCandless flying free on the cover, Jupiter’s storms and Saturn’s rings. Between them sit frames from deep in the archive that have barely been looked at since the day they came down, and quiet moments nobody thought to publish.
The book ends with the newest pictures of all. In April 2026 the Artemis II crew took Orion further from home than any crew had ever been, and photographed the far side of the Moon. Ten eras, each built around a new way of seeing, carry the story there, and every photograph is briefly explained.
By Joel Meter and Simon Phillipson.
- Publisher
- teNeues
- Published
- Europe 5 November 2026, United States 26 January 2027
- Pages
- 336, more than 340 photographs
- Format
- Hardcover, 245 × 330 mm
- ISBN
- 978-3-96171-800-9
- Price
- €60 / £50 / $75
In their words
“Laid side by side, the photographs were not a pile of separate marvels; they were one continuous story, of an agency learning to see, one kind of eye at a time, and always, in the end, looking back at home.”
We call the chapters of the book eras. Each era is a curated collection built around what NASA was focused on at that point in its history, from the years before NASA to Webb and Artemis. Tap an era to see its photographs in the shop.
Every photograph in this shop was restored for one of our books first. These are from The NASA Photo Book, as framed prints, photo art prints and phone cases.
Bestseller
The Blue Marble
Bestseller
Both Doors Open
Bestseller
Nobody Went Back
Bestseller
Nothing to Erase It
Nothing Holding Him
New
Earthset
When does The NASA Photo Book come out?
teNeues publishes it in Europe on 5 November 2026 and in the United States on 26 January 2027.
What is the book about?
NASA’s story in pictures, from its first flights to Artemis II and the far side of the Moon. The book has ten eras, each built around a new way of seeing and opening with a short essay on what NASA set out to do.
Can I buy the photographs from the book as prints?
Yes. Photographs from The NASA Photo Book are in this shop as framed prints, photo art prints and phone cases, printed from the files we restored for the book.
