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Post by Stuart Huggett on Jul 11, 2009 14:33:36 GMT
Though I'd flag this up, just 'cos I know there's moonlanding enthusiasts who visit this site. Lots of unseen NASA photography from this period, uncovered in the personal collection of the late Peter Fairley (ITN's science editor) by his son Alastair, and now available to view in an exhibition. Further info here. There's an interview with Alastair Fairley about this in my local paper (the Hastings Observer) this week. No television/film footage mentioned though. |
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Post by LanceM on Jul 11, 2009 18:45:37 GMT
This is great news Stewart, thanks for posting.Looks like a very interesting collection of materials, to be presented at the exhibition.
Are you sure there is no film footage mentioned ?
"With rare, never-before-seen footage of astronauts such as Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke and Frank Boorman"
Does not mention any TV related materials, but this other footage of the Astronauts mentioned sounds very interesting indeed.
Many thanks again for the great posting.Just goes to show, never know what may turn up. Though is always a sad affair when is the result of a deceased individual, whose collection has then only come to light.As, I for one would of been deeply interested in hearing how Peter Fairley came into possession of such material from the man himself.Guessing some would of been through his post as ITN Science editor?No idea there really, just taking a shot in the dark there.
Thanks Again for the Great News.
Cheers,Lance.
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Post by Stuart Huggett on Jul 11, 2009 19:17:22 GMT
Are you sure there is no film footage mentioned ? "With rare, never-before-seen footage of astronauts such as Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke and Frank Boorman" Hi Lance, I meant there's no mention of footage from Fairley's collection: the footage referred to above comes from Nichola Bruce's documentary about photographer Steve Pyke. That's not to say the Fairley collection contained no film/tv footage, just that it's not mentioned in the article in the Hastings Observer. Nb. The Hastings Observer hasn't put the Fairley article up on its website so far, so I'll type it up here in a day or so for you to read: it goes into greater details on Alastair's discovery of his father's archive. All the best, stu |
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Post by Stuart Huggett on Jul 13, 2009 9:57:52 GMT
Here you are:
Discovery of Moon pictures was just out of this world.
By Emily Eldridge.
Long-lost space souvenirs uncovered by an Old Town writer are providing people with an out-of-this-world experience.
The hidden treasure was discovered by Alastair Fairley, son of the late Peter Fairley – former science editor of Independent Television News (ITN) – when going through his dad’s long-forgotten things.
Alastair, who lives in Tackleway, Hastings, stumbles across original artefacts from the 1960s space race, including a rarely-seen roll of film taken by Neil Armstrong as he and Buzz Aldrin explored the moon’s surface for the first time.
Former Hastings Arts Forum chairman Alastair, who wrote De La Warr Pavilion, A Modernist Masterpiece, said: “My father covered the space race in the 1960s for ITN and was sent all the information by NASA. He was the person who made it all understandable. We knew he had bits and pieces but we didn’t know quite what.
“When I started looking through some old boxes I thought ‘blimey, what on earth have we got here!'"
It was only when Alastair found a picture of the Command Pilot and Pilot of Gemini 5, a 1965 space flight, signed to himself, that he realised what he had discovered.
“That was when I thought that what we had was very special,” he said.
His discovery also included one of the 12 watches that went to the moon and back 40 years ago.
The watch was given to Alastair’s father by astronaut James Irwin, Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 15.
The boxes also contained original photographs taken on the moon, accompanied with a statement allowing them to be copied and used, but not for advertising.
Alastair said: “Nasa clearly wanted them to be seen, they wanted them to be shown to the world.”
After finding the artefacts, Alastair founded the Fairley Archive of Space Exploration (Fase) in order to share the items of history.
He said: “After I found them I had to start thinking: ‘What does one do with this sort of thing?’
“But because we have the originals we can create something really stunning with the photographs.
“It would be great to make space exploration current and relevant for today’s generations.”
Some of the photographs have been seen before, having been used as official NASA photographs, although some have remained unseen.
The images are being featured in new exhibition Man on the Moon at The Independent Photographers Gallery, 3 Brewery Old Yard, Battle, which coincides with the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing, on July 16, 1969.
The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 4pm, and the exhibition runs until August 15.
As well as these artefacts, the exhibition will also feature photo etchings by photographer Steve Pyke of items brought back by astronauts.
Man on the Moon also previews exclusive extracts from documentary-maker Nichola Bruce’s film Moon Bug, which chronicles Pyke’s quest to photograph his boyhood heroes.
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