Adapted from presentation by John W. Delano, Ph.D. Distinguished Teaching Professor
Associate Dean, College of Arts and SciencesUniversity at Albany (SUNY)
Exploration of the Moon
Apollo 11 landing video (left frame) with view of same area from NASA’s Lunar
Reconnaissance Orbiter (right frame)
Landing video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpmDNdm5tmg
Pyramid of Cheops (2540 BCE)
Apollo Saturn V on pad 39A
Apollo 11 lift-offApollo 11 lift-off
Apollo 11 landing site in SW Mare Tranquillitatis
Apollo 11July 20, 1969
View looking WNW from rim of Little West Crater (Apollo 11 )
Apollo 11: Astronaut Aldrin at the ALSEP site with seismometer and laser retroreflector
Lunar laser retro reflectors
Apollo 11 Apollo 14
Apollo 11: Mare TranquillitatisView looking toward the ENE
Earthrise as viewed from lunar orbit by crew of Apollo 11
View from window of Apollo 11 LM Eagle shortly after landing in Mare Tranquillitatis
Apollo 11 regolith breccia: 10018
Apollo 12: Astronaut Bean descends LM ladder toward lunar surface
Apollo 14: Alan Shepard on surface
Descent and landing of Apollo 15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvKg68DcTZA
Apollo 15 Apollo 15
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Apollo 15 Apollo 15
Apollo 15 basalt, 15016 “seatbelt rock” Station 3 (Rhysling)
Apollo 15 basalt, 15016 “seatbelt rock” Station 3 (Rhysling)
Apollo 16: Astronaut Young leaping and saluting US flag at Descartes landing siteApollo 16: Astronaut Young leaping and saluting US flag at Descartes landing site
Apollo 17
Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan with Earth in the backgroundApollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan with Earth in the background