The Leslie Cantwell collection is a collection of
large-format images of space and space exploration, signed and inscribed by astronauts from the
Apollo Space programme. It was assembled by British collector Leslie Cantwell, who became interested in the
history of space exploration in the late 1990s.
The collection has been exhibited at the Proud Galleries of London, the
Kansas Cosmosphere
Cosmosphere is a space museum and STEM education center in Hutchinson, Kansas, United States. It was previously known as the Kansas Cosmosphere. The museum houses over 13,000 spaceflight artifacts—the largest combined collection of US and ...
, and the
New Mexico Museum of Art.
The collection comprises both originals and reprints of official
NASA photographs, including images of all six Apollo
Moon landings. Some images are original
Hasselblad photographs (the official camera used on all Apollo missions). Many of the photographs were taken in space by the astronauts themselves; others were taken by NASA employees on the ground.
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Photographic collections
Space exploration
Space photography and videography