The Untold Story of the Men & Women Behind America’s Journey to Space
Rare photographs. Forgotten Stories. The people behind the cameras that recorded history.
Coming soon...
Behind the Lens: Stories from Rocket Photographer
Discover the photographers who documented America's journey into space.
Featuring:
✓ Rare NASA and contractor photography
✓ Behind-the-scenes launch stories
✓ Photographer interviews
✓ Historic images from private archives
✓ A beautifully illustrated coffee-table book
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About the Author & About the Book
About the Author
Hello, my name is Helene DeFillips Milbert. My professional background is in marketing, business development,
technology, and telecommunications.
After purchasing my childhood home from my siblings, I dove into a dark room of negatives and file cabinet drawers lined with manila envelopes, with a few prints stuffed inside each folder. After gathering it all, I have over a thousand prints, some negatives, patches, and collectibles.
*All photography on this website is unedited and not photoshopped.
Some are from my father's archives, and others I took.
Contact me for permission to use them.
About the Book
Those discoveries became the foundation for Behind the Lens, a project dedicated to preserving the stories of the photographers who documented Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle eras.
Drawing from private archives, interviews, historical research, and never-before-shared photographs, the book explores the people behind the cameras who helped record America’s journey into space.
Designed for both lifelong space enthusiasts and curious newcomers, Behind the Lens combines rare imagery, personal biographies, and behind-the-scenes accounts to honor the photographers, technicians, and support teams whose work preserved the visual history of the American space program.