Saturday, October 10, 2015

Trips to the Moon

This Flickr page has a collection of photos from all of the Apollo missions from 7 to 17 in the late 1960s and early 1970s, culled from the official feeds from the Johnson Space Center. Some of the collections are repetitive; when you're photographing stuff that it will take a multi-stage rocket and the latest in technology to get back around to see, you may snap more than a couple safety shots.

There are a lot more images of the later missions -- apparently time and resources allotted to documenting the experience of flying to the moon and back increased in them. Even with all of the repeated images and some that show autofocus was not yet a standard feature on cameras, the page is a great way to look at the craft and astronauts who remain the only human beings to ever have set foot on a surface other than Earth's.

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