Apollo moon missions

Fifty years on, here are four things that made the Apollo Moon programme one of humankind's greatest technological achievements.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Apollo missions' lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon's surface, as long shadows from a low sun angle make the modules' locations evident.

At 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission launched via a Saturn V rocket on a mission to the Moon.

In February 1967, the President’s Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) urged NASA not to neglect lunar exploration during its planned Apollo Applications Program (AAP). In response to the PSAC’s concerns, NASA Headquarters created an ad hoc lunar mission study group and enlisted aid from its Apollo planning contractor, Washington, DC-based Bellcomm. Bellcomm planners wrote a pair […]

Apollo 11 Hasselblad image from film magazine 36/N - Trans-Lunar

Here's to you, NASA

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Apollo 17 Hasselblad image from film magazine 145/D - EVA-2, Post-EVA-3 & Orbit

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