Kipp Teague, a space enthusiast, has managed the Project Apollo Archive online repository of digital photos related to the historic manned moon landing program since 1999. Teague has recently added thousands of Apollo images from NASA’s Johnson Space Center to his archive.
This iconic Apollo 8 image of an Earthrise, taken in its original orientation by the camera, is shown here.
Apollo 11 training
NASA’s Apollo program featured a series lunar landings manned by astronauts between 1969 and 1972.
One of the first to step on the moon and left one of the earliest footprints during the Apollo 11 mission, July 1969.
Apollo 11 Lunar Module was the first to make a manned landing on the Moon. It did so in the Sea of Tranquility, on July 20, 1969. Aldrin and Armstrong performed an EVA (extravehicular activitiy) near the LM.
David Scott, an astronaut on the Apollo 9 mission performs an extravehicular (EVA), from Command Module Gumdrop. This was seen from the Lunar Module Spider docked in March 1969.
Apollo 12: The lunar surface
Apollo 17 was the last mission to the Moon. It took place December 1972. During EVA-3, the astronaut wears a Hassleblad camera on his chest.
Apollo 17 Lunar Module in orbit, 1972.
Apollo 13 Saturn V SA-508 was lifted off Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A, April 11, 1970.
Close-up view showing the U.S. flag that was deployed on the Moon’s Taurus-Littrow landing spot by Apollo 17 crewmen. The crescent Earth is visible in the background. This image was taken December 1972.
The American flag flew without wind, thanks to an L-shaped pole.
Apollo 14 Lunar Module Antares at Frau Mauro on February 21, 1971.
Apollo 14 Lunar module Antares during inspection, and before landing, February 1971.
Window of Apollo 12, 1969.
Apollo 16 astronauts Charlie Duke (left), and John Young (right), on the Lunar Rover during a preflight checkout, November 2, 1971.
Apollo 17 Lunar Modul Challenger was on the moon during December 1972’s third EVA.
Oct 1968, rendezvous with 2nd stage for docking exercise over Florida. The Apollo 7 mission lasted 11 days.
View of Earth during the Apollo 17 Mission’s translunar coastline phase. December, 1972.
Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 commander, drives the lunar roving car in a short checkout before loading it with communications equipment and tolls during the early part EVA at the Taurus–Littrow. This lunar valley was the landing site for the December 1972 mission to the Moon.
A Lunar Module inspection, Rendezvous, July 1969, with Earth visible in the distance
In 1972, Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 Commander salutes the American flag.
