These 9,200 Apollo Photos Will Change Your View of Space
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has uploaded thousands of photos of the Apollo program to Flickr. High-resolution images are organized in the archive for each mission.
Recall that as part of the Apollo program, there were six successful landings of astronauts on the moon, the last of them took place in 1972.
Here are 16 selected images from the Project Apollo archive.
(Total 16 photos)
1. Apollo 17: A fun ride on the moon.
2. Apollo 17: Even astronauts need to shave on a long trip.
3. Apollo 17: Commander Eugene Cernan, left, with lunar module pilot Harrison Schmitt.
4. "Apollo 16": experiments in space.
5. "Apollo 16": a family photo on the surface of the moon.
6. "Apollo 15": trip on the moon rover.
7. "Apollo 14": rocks on the moon.
8. Apollo 13: The service module of Apollo 13, damaged by an oxygen tank explosion, photographed from the command module.
9. "Apollo 12": a small part of the Earth, which is visible beyond the edge of the moon.
10. Apollo 11: One of Buzz Aldrin's iconic photographs.
11. "Apollo 11": the first trip to the moon.
12. Apollo 11: reconnaissance.
13. "Apollo 10": view of the Earth.
14. Apollo 9: One of two spacewalks.
15. Apollo 8: Several photos of the moon show it in vibrant colors, including red and blue.
16. Apollo 7: in Earth orbit.
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