As the Apollo program closed in on its goal, cartographers relied on photos from 1966 and 1967 orbiter missions to create the February 1969 hand-­painted map—considered the best reference at ...

Unlike the Apollo flights ... What's the mission? A spacecraft will circle the moon to remotely map different forms of water on the lunar surface. Type of craft: Orbiter.

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command ...

Apollo missions never flew during a full moon ... The solution: four lunar maps folded just so and fastened with what Cernan called “good old-fashioned American gray tape.” ...

Fifty years ago today, Apollo 15 mission commander David R ... Using four of the 28 geological maps, duct tape, and two clamps from the optical alignment telescope, the astronauts fashioned ...

The mission to the moon was believed to be “impossible” at the time, with much doubt cast over the rocket, equipment, and astronauts’ abilities. Since the Apollo 11 astronauts stepped onto ...

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...