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 ...

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

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The goal was clear and anything but simple or fathomable. President John F. Kennedy issued the directive in 1961 to NASA: land a crew of astronauts on the moon and bring them ...

Scientists firing lasers at NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have finally hit a tiny reflective panel on the spacecraft after attempting to nail the mark for roughly a decade. The reflector is part ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...