Forty years after the Apollo 11 voyage to the moon, NASA released photographs from the new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft Friday showing five of the six Apollo landing sites. Shadows cast by ...

Moffett Field, California – The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) is seeking support from the public as it continues its efforts to recover and enhance Moon images from the 1960s using ...

Moffett Field, California – The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) is seeking support from the public as it continues its efforts to recover and enhance Moon images from the 1960s using ...

On August 10, 1966, Lunar Orbiter 1 blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to begin a massive photographic survey of the lunar surface. Four days later, it became the first U.S.

An Apollo 14 astronaut deploys the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package’s power source (foreground) and “Central Station” (background), where the Lunar Dust Detector was mounted. Credit: NASA/JSC ...

Forty-three years ago today, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on the moon for just 21 hours and 36 minutes, but thanks to a new NASA website, you can see how the lighting at ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This model of the Lunar Orbiter was ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 crewmembers Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders made a live broadcast from orbit around the Moon.

On February 5, 1971, humans successfully landed on the Moon for the third time as part of the Apollo 14 mission. Astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell spent a total of 33 and a half hours on the ...

the complete set of ten lithographs printed in colors, two with overlay, on Arches wove paper, sheets approx.: 22⅜ by 30 in. 567 by 763 mm. Executed in 1972; this set is number 31 from the edition of ...