Are these the perfect postcards from space?

To commemorate this year's 50th anniversary of the first man on the moon, these classic NASA images are now available to buy.

Commemorating one man's one small step, an archive of 350 photographs chronicling NASA missions from 1960 to 2002, is up for auction at Swann Auction Galleries in New York on February 21. Here are some of the images on offer, estimated to fetch between $6,000 and $9,000.

IMAX images from December 1998, show the crew of Space Shuttle Mission STS-88 beginning construction of the International Space Stationplaceholder image
IMAX images from December 1998, show the crew of Space Shuttle Mission STS-88 beginning construction of the International Space Station
Charles Conrad Jr stands with the United States flag in 1969placeholder image
Charles Conrad Jr stands with the United States flag in 1969
Photo of a close-up of an astronaut's boot in the lunar soil in 1969placeholder image
Photo of a close-up of an astronaut's boot in the lunar soil in 1969
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