London, November 4 (ANI): Thousands of rare photographs
recording the early days of manned flight into space will go
under the hammer this month in Vienna. The collection is the
largest on the subject ever offered on the open market and it
features more than 4,500 shots from the days when rockets were
little more than guided missiles, adapted to carry a passenger
or two instead of a warhead, through to the sudden sunset of
manned moonshots in the 1970s. The photographs amassed by a
European collector will be sold in just two large lots in Vienna
and are estimated to fetch around 320,000 pounds- 480,000
pounds, the Guardian reported. The images shed fresh light on
the extraordinary period of technological advance and human
achievement that sprang from the struggle between the US and the
former Soviet Union. As well as familiar pictures, such as a
colour shot of Buzz Aldrin alone on the lunar surface, which
became one of the world's most reproduced photographs, the
collection contains hundreds of black-and-whit