Parting Moon Shots from NASA's GRAIL Mission

Four Ranger 8 Camera P images taken on 20 February 1965 from a distance of 20 km about 9 seconds before impact on the Moon.

In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space.

A view from Apollo 13 of the lunar farside showing the crater Tsiolkovsky.

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

In October 2017, The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter celebrated 100 lunar days of being at the Moon. That's about eight Earth years.

This animation shows the geocentric phase, libration, position angle of the axis, and apparent diameter of the Moon throughout the year 2019, at hourly intervals. The imagery is based on actual dat...

Video of the moon taken by the NASA GRAIL mission's MoonKam camera aboard the Ebb spacecraft on Dec. 14, 2012

Ranger 8 camera B image of the Moon about 5 seconds before impact.

Engineers prepare NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft for acoustic environmental testing.

Apollo 12 astronauts relax during a flight rehearsal in the Apollo mission simulator.

Lunar Orbiter 1 new of the Moon and crescent Earth. This is the first good image of the Earth taken from the vicinity of the Moon, 380,000 km away.

Topography of Earth's moon generated from data collected by the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, with the gravity anomalies bordering the Procellarum regio...

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

Six photos from Ranger 9 as it approached the lunar surface.

This bootprint marks one of the first steps human beings took on the moon in July 1969.

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.

This NASA video details the first journey of men around the moon.

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle, in a landing configuration was photographed in lunar orbit from the Command and Service Module Columbia.

To celebrate its 5th Anniversary, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission decided to hold a contest to pick a cover image for "The Moon As Art" collection.

This animation features actual satellite images of the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun.

The first image taken by the Ranger 8 camera B on 20 February 1965 shows the 164 km diameter Ptolemaeus crater, top center, and below it Alphonsus crater (diameter 108 km).

Researchers hope "LADEE" will solve a mystery that has been puzzling them since the days of Apollo.

At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, Commander David Scott (pictured above) performed a live demonstration for the television cameras.

Ranger 9 was the last of the Ranger series of spacecraft launched in the 1960s to explore the moon and was designed to image and impact the moon's crater Alphonsus. Includes imagery from the onboar...

Mark your calendars: a series of three supermoons will appear on the celestial stage on Dec. 3, 2017, Jan. 1, 2018, and Jan. 31, 2018.