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 ...

The Intrepid Museum's largest temporary exhibition, "Apollo: When We Went to the Moon" is staged under the display of the prototype space shuttle orbit Enterprise. Given it was navy ships that ...

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

On August 23, 1966, NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the very first photograph of Earth from the vicinity of the Moon, showing our planet as a delicate crescent rising above the lunar horizon. While ...

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 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.

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Scientists have confirmed a cave on the moon, not far from where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed 55 years ago, and suspect there are hundreds more that could house ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has taken its first look at China's Chang'e 6 spacecraft on the moon's far side. The Chang'e 6 lander is flanked by two craters similar in size to it and is ...