Apollo 12: Pinpoint for Science

Apollo 8 Astronaut James Lovell, Command Module (CM) pilot of the first manned Saturn V space flight into Lunar orbit, accepted a phone call from the U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson prior to launc...

Views of the Apollo 11 landing site from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, taken on separate occasions when the Sun was at different points in the sky over the site.

An excellent view of the unmanned Surveyor 3 spacecraft which was photographed during the Apollo 12 second extravehicular activity (EVA) on the surface of the moon.

Footage of the recovery of the Apollo 8 crew

Since the 1960s, scientists have suspected that frozen water could survive in cold, dark craters at the moon's poles.

This view of Earth was photographed by the Apollo 15 crewmen as they sped toward the fourth lunar landing.

Records the accomplishment of the basic mission of Apollo 10 - to uncover and solve the few remaining problems before lunar landing.

AS-502 climbs to orbit, as seen from chase-plane.

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

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

Set to Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune, this visualization uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data to show the stark beauty of evolving light and shadow near sunrise and sunset on the rugged lunar su...

Carrying astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., the Lunar Module (LM) “Eagle” was the first crewed vehicle to land on the Moon. 

Searchlights illuminate this nighttime scene at Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, showing the Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/Saturn 512) space vehicle during prela...

Silent video of the Apollo 8 Saturn V rocket launching into orbit

Astronaut John W. Young, Apollo 10 command module pilot, adjusts strap on his communications cap during suiting up operations for the lunar orbit mission.

The LRO camera team has discovered more than two-dozen new impact craters – including an 18-meter-wide crater caused by a bright flash on March 17, 2013.

In the early morning hours of April 15, 2014, the Moon enters the Earth’s shadow, creating a total lunar eclipse.

Visualization of the location of all six Apollo landing sites on the Moon, along with the historical Moon phase. 

The Apollo 12 Lunar Module (LM), in a lunar landing configuration, is photographed in lunar orbit from the Command and Service Modules (CSM).

Astronaut John Young, who walked on the Moon during Apollo 16 and commanded the first space shuttle mission, has passed away at the age of 87.

A documentary view of the Apollo 17 journey to Taurus-Littrow, the final lunar landing mission in the Apollo Program.

This photograph was taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft with long-focal length lens, looking south at the large crater Goclenius, which is in foreground.

The phase and libration of the Moon for 2017, at hourly intervals. 

Dunned in his space suit, Lunar Module pilot Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. does a final check of his communications system before the boarding of the Apollo 11 mission.

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.