A lifelong fan of space exploration, I’ve taken quite a few photos over the years. I created this webpage to make my photographs available to other space history enthusiasts.
Hopefully, this page will provide a valuable resource to space modelers and space exploration historians. I plan on photographing more space artifacts in the future. Any major gallery additions will be noted on the homepage.
In addition the photo galleries, I have included an extensive links page, a timeline of historic missions, and a quotes page. I have plans for additional features as time allows.
Images and illustrations found on HistoricSpacecraft.com, credited to Richard Kruse, may be used by third parties for educational or other non-commercial purposes as long as a link is provided back to HistoricSpacecraft.com, or to the sub-page of historicspacecraft.com where the image or illustration was found.
Reproduction for commercial purposes requires prior approval (Almost always granted!). Email Richard for commercial usage requests.
NOTE:To conserve bandwith, I downsample almost all images uploaded to Historic Spacecraft. Higher resolution images will be available for publication purposes.