NASA unmanned space probes launched during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s produced a variety of 4x5 inch computer-generated negatives from radio-telemetric data of the solar system. In 1986, the curators of 25 Years of Space Photography: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, an exhibition and catalogue from 1985-1986, gave five negatives to a senior project leader at NASA. Subsequently, Blackpoint Editions used these original negatives, scanned as 2400 dpi files, to make the carbon pigment prints donated to the Briscoe Center.
From the guide to the NASA Space Exploration Photograph Collection AR 2012-015., circa 1965-1976, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)
