Apollo Picture Gallery page 2




The crew of Apollo 204, also known as Apollo 1, shown in their space suits January, 1967. Front to rear are Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee.




President Jimmy Carter is shown at the White House with the Apollo 11 crew in July of 1979, left to right: Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong.




Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, prepares to deploy the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP) during the Apollo II lunar surface extravehicular activity, July 20, 1969. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70 mm lunar surface camera. During flight the EASEP is stowed in the Lunar Module scientific bay at the left rear quadrant of the descent stage looking forward. Aldrin is removing the EASEP from its stowed position.




Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, stands on the lunar surface after the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969. The Lunar Module is seen in the background.




The four Apollo 13 flight crew directors who brought the crippled spacecraft back to Earth celebrate at their post in Mission Control at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston as they learn of the command maodule's successful splashdown April 17, 1970. From left are: Gerald Griffin, Eugene F. Kranz, Glynn S. Lunney and Milton L. Windler.




Apollo 8 Spacecraft commander Frank Borman addresses the crew of the USS Yorktown while Apollo 8 astronauts Bill Anders, center, and Jim Lovell, right, look on following a flawless lunar orbital mission and recover in the Pacific Ocean some 1,000 miles Southwest of Hawaii, Dec. 27, 1968. Navy officer at left is unidentified.




As Apollo 8, the first manned Apollo mission, approached the moon in December, 1968, the color values shown in these photos must have made the astronauts wonder about old earthling folk stories, but when they came closer the moon proved to be grayish rocks, not green cheese. Astronauts for the mission were Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders.




A View of the Apollo Command Module with Astronaut Michael Collins aboard as seen from the Lunar Module, July 20, 1969. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin in the LM have separated from Apollo 11 and prepare to go to the lunar surface. Moon terrain in background is the far side of the moon.




At NASA Mission Control in Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, left, director of flight crew operations, holds lithium hydroxide canisters attached to a hose as he discusses a makeshift repair to reduce the dangerous levels of carbon dioxide aboard the crippled spacecraft Apollo 13, April 15, 1970. Dr. Robert Gilruth, director of MSC, holds the end of the hose at right, as launch director Kurt Debus, seated left, and deputy director Christopher Kraft, also seated, look on. The Apollo 13 astronauts' improvised device effectively treated the air aboard the craft. Man standing at center is unidentified.




Apollo 14 Mission Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr., appears relaxed during suiting activities for his launch to the Moon on Jan. 31, 1971. Shepard commanded Apollo 14 on a nine-day flight, man's third lunar landing mission and spent a total of nearly 217 hours in space, including more than nine hours on the moon. Shepard, the first American to fly in space and the fifth human to walk on the moon, died late Tuesday, July 21, 1998 at a hospital in California. He was 74.




A view of the sphere of Earth as photographed from Apollo 17 spacecraft in December 1972 during the final lunar landing mission in NASA's Apollo program. Photo extends from Mediterranean Sea to the Antarctic south polar ice cap. Almost the entire coast of Africa is delineated. The Arabian Peninsula is seen at northeastern edge of Africa, with the large island off southern coast of Africa, the Malagasy Republic.