Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin salutes the United States flag while Neil Armstrong photographs
him. A moment caught on 16mm film here.
Posted on 07/27/2013 8:47:47 AM PDT by Islander7
The title sort of gives it away, but did you know that there is an online archive that contains high-resolution film scans from every Apollo mission? The gallery contains all of the incredible photos taken during each of the missions — from Apollo 1 all the way through Apollo 17 — with some 1,000+ photos from Apollo 11 alone.
The archive, officially the Apollo Image Gallery, was put together by the Project Apollo Archive by scanning photographs provided by the NASA History Office, Kennedy Space Center and Johnson Space Center.
Since all of these images were taken by NASA astronauts in the course of duty, they’re all Public Domain and free for you to browse through, download, share and use to your heart’s content.
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Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin salutes the United States flag while Neil Armstrong photographs
him. A moment caught on 16mm film here.
Need to check back in later. Should be great.
Thanks Islander7, extra to APoD.
Thanx and a bump until I’m done baking bread.
And that flag — and those footprints, for that matter — are still there, and will be until they open a Starbucks in Mare Tranquilus.
I’m guessing that solar radiation has completely bleached out all of the color in the flag in just a few months after they planted it.
Ping to pillage later
Uber cool. Bflr.
We could not do this again with unlimited funds.
We don’t have the engineers, and we don’t have the manufactory.
When I was a boy, I dreamed of listening to the first words spoken by men on Mars. Too bad I don’t speak Mandarin.
If you prefer, there is the collectors edition.
This article could probably have used an editor. Sadly, I don’t think there were too many great images from Apollo 1.
Great gallery though. Thanks for the post!
Bugs Bunny’s ?
Good point. I don’t know that any dye is colorfast enough to withstand almost 50 years of that kind of sun.
The Apollo Image Gallery is unavailable for the immediate future due to server overload.
Access will be restored in coming days once the publicity generated by the petapixel.com article subsides.
Praise satanallah, we couldn’t have done it without the mudslimes!
Your laugh sounds a bit nervous there. Wanna take a ride?
I don’t see it.
The thing that looks like a battleship?
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