Lunar Orbiter 1

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) acquired a high resolution image of the Apollo 11 landing site.

A member of the Apollo 10 crew is hoisted up to a helicopter from the prime recovery ship, USS Princeton. Splashdown occurred at 11:53 a.m., May 26, 1969, about 400 miles east of American Samoa.

A view of the Apollo 15 Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit as photographed from the Lunar Module (LM) just after rendezvous. 

A partially illuminated Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this photograph taken from the Apollo 12 spacecraft.

The crater Eimmart A is about 4.5 miles (7.3 kilometers) wide. It was observed by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. 

This small, unnamed crater displays a beautiful ejecta pattern resembling a starburst. Looking at this image you can almost imagine the shower of ejecta falling to the ground. The pattern formed ou...

Earth appears in the far distant background above the hi-gain antenna of the Lunar Roving Vehicle in this photograph taken by scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt during the third Apollo 17 extr...

A full moon rising over Launch Complex 34 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on September 16th 2016

In this image by Lunar Orbiter 1, we view the Moon with the Earth rising to the right.

Surveyor 5 image of the footpad resting in the lunar soil.

The five F-1 engines of the huge Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle's first (S-IC) stage leave a gigantic trail of flame in the sky above the Kennedy Space Center seconds after liftoff.

Katherine Johnson and other "Human Computers" played an integral role in the early days of America's space program.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the Moon.

A front view of the Apollo 14 Lunar Module (LM), which reflects a circular flare caused by the brilliant sun, as seen by the two moon-exploring crew men of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission durin...

It's not just a time-lapse composite image of our Moon as it arcs across the sky, it's a "super blue blood Moon" eclipse! 

This time lapse video taken during ISS Expedition 42 is assembled from JSC still photo collection.

High Oblique photograph (taken over New Mexico) of the Apollo 9 Command/Service Modules taken from the Lunar Module,"Spider",on the fifth day of the Apollo 9 earth-orbital mission.

NASA created this chart in 1967 to illustrate the flight path and key mission events for the upcoming Apollo missions to the Moon.

These three astronauts are the prime crew of the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission.

Photomosaic of lunar panorama near the Tycho crater taken by Surveyor 7. The hills on the center horizon are about eight miles away from the spacecraft.

Neil Armstrong strums on a ukulele in a quarantine facility after Apollo 11 returned from the Moon.

Apollo 7 lifts off from Cape Kennedy Launch Complex 34 at 11:03 A.M., EDT.

Video tour of an interactive tool that lets you hold virtual Moon rocks in your hand.

Apollo 8 astronauts and commanding officer of the recovery ship U.S.S. Yorktown walk the red carpet of the flight deck after splashdown recovery in the Pacific Ocean.

A very oblique view of a crater on the far side of the Moon, as imaged by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.