Moon Landing

Original caption: NASA/APOLLO. ABOARD THE USS HORNET - President Richard M. Nixon appears to be holding the Presidential Seal which is attached to the door of the Mobile Quarantine Facility during his greeting More

Eugene A. Cernan, Commander, Apollo 17 salutes the flag on the lunar surface during extravehicular activity (EVA) on NASA's final lunar landing mission. The Lunar Module "Challenger" is in the left background b More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft LCROSS IMPACT EVENT at Goddard Space Flight Center. Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft LCROSS IMPACT EVENT at Goddard Space Flight Center. Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft LCROSS IMPACT EVENT at Goddard Space Flight Center. Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft LCROSS IMPACT EVENT at Goddard Space Flight Center. Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft LCROSS IMPACT EVENT at Goddard Space Flight Center. Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Lunar observation taken by the STS-125 crew aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. Subject Terms: STS-125, Moon Date Taken: 5/13/2009 Categories: Lunar O More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Lunar observations taken by the STS-129 crew aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. Subject Terms: STS-129, Moon Date Taken: 11/24/2009 Categories: Lunar More

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Lunar observations taken by the STS-129 crew aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. Subject Terms: STS-129, Moon Date Taken: 11/27/2009 Categories: Lunar More

AS11-37-5458 (20 July 1969) --- This excellent view from the right-hand window of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) shows the surface of the moon in the vicinity of where the LM touched down. Numerous small rocks More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12, launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

July 20, 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins of Apollo 11. A direct result of President John F. Kennedy's mandate to land a More

This item is a Photograph of Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Entering the 30' Altitude Chamber. Source Files on Project Gemini

Description: (December 5, 1961) Project LOLA. Test subject sitting at the controls: Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley to study problems related to landing on the More

406-01 Astronaut Training - Apollo 16 - General Public domain photograph of Apollo Moon Program, space race, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This 1963 model depicts an early Apollo lunar lander concept, called a "bug," landing on the moon. Engineers designed several possible vehicle shapes for both manned and unmanned landers. In 1961, Bruce Lundin, More

This 1963 model depicts an early Apollo lunar lander concept, called a ''bug.'' Engineers designed several possible vehicle shapes for both manned and unmanned landers. In 1961, Bruce Lundin, former director of More

MODEL OF APOLLO BUG TO SIMULATE LUNAR LANDING NASA Identifier: C-1963-65465

(May 5, 1963) Vehicle for Lunar Landing Research Facility at Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. ..Image # : L-1963-09781

The launch of the SA-7 (Saturn I Block II) was on September 18, 1964. The SA-7 mission was the second orbital flight of the S-IV stage (second stage) with the payload consisting of the Apollo command and servic More

Original caption: MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS. APOLLO 12 LM DESCENT STAGE - The Apollo 12 Lunar Module, after separation from the Command and Service Modules, descends toward the lunar surface, wh More

Original caption: KAPOHO, HAWAII. APOLLO 13 TRAINING - Astronauts James A. Lovell Jr. (right) and Fred W. Haise Jr., commander and lunar module pilot, respectively, for the upcoming Apollo 13 lunar landing mis More

APOLLO 12 PACIFIC RECOVERY AREA - Apollo 12 astronauts, left to right, Alan L. Bean, Richard F. Gordon, Jr., and Charles Conrad, Jr., sit in life raft with U.S. Navy pararescueman awaiting pickup by rescue heli More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - Apollo 13 lunar module pilot Fred W. Haise, Jr., appears relaxed as he undergoes spacesuit checks today prior to the start of his lunar landing mission with astronauts James A. Love More

Original caption: HUDSPETH COUNTY, TEXAS. GEOLOGY TRAINING - These two Apollo 11 astronauts are photographed during a geological field trip to the Quitman Mountain area near the Fort Quitman ruins in far west More

Original caption: MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS. RX-2A HARD SUIT TEST - Gordon Swann, United States Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona, inspects a geological rock sample during tests on the RX-2A More

Original caption: MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS. APOLLO 8 WATER EGRESS TRAINING - A member of the Apollo 8 prime crew is hoisted up to a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter during water egress training in t More

Original caption: TAOS, NEW MEXICO. APOLLO 15 EVA TRAINING - A wide-angle view showing two members of the prime crew of the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission riding in a Lunar Roving Vehicle trainer during simul More

Original caption: MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS. APOLLO 14 LLTV FLIGHT - A Lunar Landing Training Vehicle (LLTV), piloted by Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., begins a test flight at Ellington Air Forc More

Original caption: MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS. APOLLO 14 LRL ACTIVITY - Leonard E. (Ed) Cornitius, a lab technician for Brown & Rott/Northrop, prepares Sample No. 14321 to be photographed during " More

Original caption: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - Apollo 12 rollout from VAB to Complex 39A Color Photograph Files

Original caption: MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS. ALSEP DEPLOYMENT - Suited test subject installs the antenna and antenna gimbal of the Central Package during deployment of the Apollo Lunar Surface E More

Artist Concepts, Apollo Mission: S66-10983: Ascent Stage Liftoff (S66-05094) S66-10984: Orientation During Ascent Phase (S66-05098) S66-10985: Midcourse Coast (S66-05113) S66-10986: Survey of Landi More

308 Grover Scheduling [3/3] Public domain photograph of a tractor, bulldozer, construction vehicle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

NASA remembers Roy Estess, former Stennis Space Center Director, who passed away on June 25, 2010. Estess had a 37-year career at NASA, which began in 1966 where he was a test engineer at NASA's Stennis Space C More

First view of the earth and moon from space. Published in: Spaceflight Revolution: Langley Research Center From Sputnik to Apollo, by James R. Hansen. NASA History Series. NASA SP ; 4308. p ii. Caption: "The pi More

First view of the earth and moon from space. Published in: Spaceflight Revolution: Langley Research Center From Sputnik to Apollo, by James R. Hansen. NASA History Series. NASA SP ; 4308. p ii. Caption: "The pi More

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. -- At Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, the crew for Gemini 12 arrives at Launch Complex 19. Command pilot James A. Lovell is followed by pilot Edwin E. Buzz Aldrin Jr. The signs on More

View of the Surveyor III craft,which landed April 19,1967. Footpad 1 is to the left, footpad 2 is in the foreground, and the surface sampler extends to the right. The Lunar module LM is visible in the backgroun More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12 launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12 launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12, launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12 launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

View of the Surveyor III footpad. Image was taken during the second EVA EVA2 of the Apollo 12 mission. Original film magazine was labeled X,film type was SO-267 Plus-XX,high speed black and white thin base fi More

View of the Surveyor III craft,which landed April 19,1967. Image was taken during the second EVA EVA2 of the Apollo 12 mission. Original film magazine was labeled X,film type was SO-267 Plus-XX,high speed blac More

Charles Conrad Jr., Apollo 12 Commander, examines the unmanned Surveyor III spacecraft during the second extravehicular activity (EVA-2). The Lunar Module (LM) "Intrepid" is in the right background. This pict More

(September 22, 1969) Portrait of the prime crew of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission. From left to right they are: Commander, Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., Command Module pilot, Richard F. Gordon Jr. and Lunar M More

Amerikaanse astronauten Virgil Grissom, Robert Chaffee en Edwart White in huin ruimtepakken tijdens de voorbereidingen voor hun vlucht in de ruimte met de Apollo 1. [ Zij zouden omkomen toen de cabine van de Ap More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12, launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

View of Surveyor Crater and Surveyor III,which landed April 19,1967. The Lunar Module LM is barely visible in the background. Image was taken during the second EVA EVA2 of the Apollo 12 mission. Original film m More

On November 9, 1967, Apollo 4, the first test flight of the Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle, was launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39. This was an unmanned test flight intended to prove that the c More

Charles Conrad Jr., Apollo 12 Commander, examines the unmanned Surveyor III spacecraft during the second extravehicular activity (EVA-2). The Lunar Module (LM) "Intrepid" is in the right background. This pict More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12, launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12 launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

View of the Surveyor III craft,which landed April 19,1967. Footpad 1 is to the left,footpad 2 is in the foreground,and the surface sampler extends to the right. The Lunar module LM is visible in the background. More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12, launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12 launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12 launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12, launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12, launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

Charles Conrad Jr., Apollo 12 Commander, examines the unmanned Surveyor III spacecraft during the second extravehicular activity (EVA-2). The Lunar Module (LM) "Intrepid" is in the right background. This pictur More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12 launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12, launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12, launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12 launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn Five launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by t More

AS-501, the first flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle, takes flight from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A on November 9, 1967. The unmanned mission, also designated Apollo 4, marked the first test flight More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 8,Moon limb,Mare Tranquillitatis, Horizon Only, Target of Opportunity (T/O) 80,West of Lubbock,sharp irregular depression and hills. Image taken on More

Views of the Apollo 8 Borman, Lovell, Anders printed up from the 16 mm onboard film. Dec. 21/28, 1968 NASA Identifier: S68-56531

This item is a star chart used aboard Apollo 11. Project Files on the Early Apollo Surface Experiments Package (EASEP)

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 8,Farside of Moon. Image taken on Revolution 4. Latitude 14 South, Longitude 140 East. Camera Tilt Mode: Vertical Stereo. Sun Angle: 66.5. Original More

AS08-14-2400 (21-27 Dec. 1968) --- This near vertical photograph of the lunar surface taken with a telephoto lens during the Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission. The area covered by the photograph is approximately 20 More

Pictured from left to right, the Apollo 9 astronauts, James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott, and Russell L. Schweickart, pause in front of the Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle that would launch the Apollo 8 crew. The More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 8, Farside of Moon. Image taken on Revolution 4. Latitude 04 South, Longitude 148 West. Camera Tilt Mode: Vertical Stereo. Sun Angle: 0. Original Fi More

S68-19460 (22 Jan. 1968) --- The Apollo 5 (LM-1/Saturn 204) unmanned space mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 37 at 5:48:09 p.m. (EST), Jan. 22, 1968. The Lunar Module-1 payload More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 7,Second Stage, S-IVB booster. Earth in background over the Gulf of California,Mexico,Caborca,Madgalena River. The expended Saturn IVB stage photo More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 7, the expended Saturn IVB stage photographed from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during transposition and docking maneuvers. This photograph was taken ove More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 7,Lunar Module Pilot Walter Cunningham inside the Command Module. Original film magazine was labeled N. Camera Data: Hasselblad 500-C; Lens: Zeiss More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 7,Lunar Module Pilot Walter Cunningham works inside the Command Module. Original film magazine was labeled N. Camera Data: Hasselblad 500-C; Lens: Z More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 7, the expended Saturn IVB stage photographed from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during transposition and docking maneuvers. This photograph was taken ov More

The original database describes this as: Description: The expended Saturn IVB stage as photographed from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during transposition and docking maneuvers at an approximate altitude of 125 nau More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 7,the expended Saturn IVB stage photographed from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during transposition and docking maneuvers. This photograph was taken over More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 7,the expended Saturn IVB stage photographed from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during transposition and docking maneuvers. This photograph was taken over More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 7,the expended Saturn IVB stage photographed from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during transposition and docking maneuvers at a distance of approximately More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 7, the expended Saturn IVB stage photographed from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during transposition and docking maneuvers. This photograph was taken ov More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 7, Apollo 7,Second Stage, S-IVB booster. Earth in background over the Gulf of California,Mexico,Nogales,Arizona,Magdalena River. The expended Satur More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 7, the expended Saturn IVB stage photographed from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during transposition and docking maneuvers. This photograph was taken ove More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 7,Lunar Module Pilot, R. Walter Cunningham working inside the Command Module. Original film magazine was labeled N. Camera Data: Hasselblad 500-C; More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 7, the expended Saturn IVB stage as photographed from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during transposition and docking maneuvers.This view is over Cape Kenn More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 7, the expended Saturn IVB stage photographed from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during transposition and docking maneuvers. This photograph was taken ove More

The original database describes this as: Description: Apollo 7, Saturn IVB stage panel photographed from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during transposition and docking maneuvers. This photograph was taken during Apo More

The second manned lunar landing mission, Apollo 12 launched from launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14, 1969 via a Saturn V launch vehicle. The Saturn V vehicle was developed by the More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Nasa Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Apollo 9 astronauts, left to right, James McDivitt, David Scott and Russell Schweickart pause in front of the Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle that will launch Apollo 8 space pilots Frank Bo More

Pictured from left to right, the Apollo 9 astronauts, James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott, and Russell L. Schweickart, pause in front of the Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle that would launch the Apollo 8 crew. The More

Apollo 8,Moon,Target of Opportunity (T/O) 10, Various targets. Latitude 18 degrees South,Longitude 163.50 degrees West. Camera Tilt Mode: High Oblique. Direction: South. Sun Angle 12 degrees. Original Film M More

S68-55999 (21 Dec. 1968) --- The Apollo 8 crew leaves the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (MSOB) during the Apollo 8 prelaunch countdown. Astronaut Frank Borman (waving to wel More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Kennedy Space Center State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Nasa Release Status: Released to Public More

AS8-14-2392 (21-27 Dec. 1968) --- High-oblique view of the moon's surface showing Earth rising above the lunar horizon, looking west-southwest, as photographed from the Apollo 8 spacecraft as it orbited the moo More

AS11-40-5868 (20 July 1969) --- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot, descends the steps of the Lunar Module (LM) ladder as he prepares to walk on the Moon. He had just egressed the LM. This photo More