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The pictures were taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a robotic probein orbit around the moon. The new views from the spacecraft's narrow angle camera are only the third time that close-up pictures of the landing sites have been snapped and resolved by the unmanned spacecra...
The new views from the spacecraft's narrow angle camera are only the third time that close-up pictures of the landing sites have been snapped and resolved by the unmanned spacecraft around the moon. [See the new Apollo moon landing site photos]...
The image of the Apollo 14 landing site shows scientific instruments and an astronautfootpath3in the lunar dust. It is the first time hardware left on the Moon by the Apollo missions has been seen from lunar orbit. The pictures were taken by Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacec...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths left by astronauts as they explored the lunar surface.
LRO has captured images of otherApollo landing sitesbefore, including fascinating pictures that show tracks left by the Apollo 17 astronauts and their lunar rover. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been in orbit around the moon since June 2009. The $504 million car-sized spacecraft first captur...
The pictures were taken two weeks ago and show the landing sites for Apollo 12, 14 and 17. The closest images are of the 1972 Apollo 17 site, the last moon mission./p> Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan wrote in an email to The Associated Press that the photo gives him a chance to ...
While Apollo 17's Schmitt is a supporter for moon-derived Helium-3, Spudis said "the real, low-hanging fruit" on the moon is the water and permanent sunlight at the poles, useful materials and continuous energy. [NASA's 17 Apollo Missions in Pictures] ...
Moon landing 1 of 3 Witness Neil Armstrong take humankind's first steps on the lunar surface during NASA's Apollo 11 missionPerhaps the most famous of all space films, these clips document the arrival of the first human beings on the Moon during the afternoon of July 20, 1969. They compri...
Apollo After SovietcosmonautYuri Gagarinbecame the first human to travel into space in April 1961, U.S. Pres.John F. Kennedyestablished the national objective of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely before 1970.Apollowas the result of that effort. ...