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Highlights from the Apollo missions, NASA's lunar landing program, dating from 1968 to 1972.
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Astronaut Gene Cernan is envisioned in the Command Module amid the outbound excursion from the moon amid the Apollo 17 mission in December, 1972. The photo is one of more than 12,000 from NASA's files as of late amassed on the Project Apollo Archive Flickr account. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., Apollo 12 officer, remains adjacent to the United States banner on the lunar surface amid the main extravehicular movement November 16, 1969. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
The consumed Saturn IVB stage is envisioned from the Apollo 7 rocket amid transposition and docking moves October 11, 1968. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Earth ascends over the moon's frame of reference amid the Apollo 11 lunar mission in July 1969. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Astronaut Walter Cunningham, Apollo 7 lunar module pilot, is shot amid the Apollo 7 mission in October 1968. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Astronaut John L. Swigert Jr. (R), summon module pilot, and a unidentified space explorer work with a portion of the brief hose associations and mechanical assembly which were important when the three Apollo space travelers moved from the Command Module to utilize the Landing Module as a "raft" taking after a blast amid the Apollo 13 mission in April 1970.
Astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, strolls on the surface of the moon close to the leg of the Lunar Module (LM) "Bird" amid the Apollo 11 extravehicular action (EVA) July 20, 1969. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
The "letter drop," a jury-fixed course of action which the crew members worked to utilize the CM lithium hydroxide canisters to clean CO2 from the shuttle's climate, is imagined amid the Apollo 13 mission in April 1970. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
An space explorer's boot and bootprint in the lunar soil is imagined amid the Apollo 11 lunar surface extravehicular action July 20, 1969. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Scientist-space traveler Harrison H. Schmitt is shot situated in the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) at Station 9 (Van Serg Crater) amid the third Apollo 17 extravehicular movement (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site amid the Apollo 17 mission December 13, 1972. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 leader, is imagined inside the Lunar Module (LM) while the LM laid on the lunar surface amid the Apollo 11 mission July 20, 1969. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, plunges the progressions of the Lunar Module (LM) stepping stool as he gets ready to stroll on the moon amid the Apollo 11 mission July 20, 1969. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Astronaut Ronald E. Evans is shot performing extravehicular movement amid the Apollo 17 rocket's trans-Earth coast December 17, 1972. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
The surface of the moon is envisioned amid the Apollo 11 mission July 21, 1969. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
David R. Scott, order module pilot, remains in the open seal of the Command Module (CM) amid extravehicular action (EVA), on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission March 6, 1969. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Scientist-space traveler Harrison H. Schmitt is captured remaining beside a colossal, split stone amid the third Apollo 17 extravehicular action (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site on the moon amid the Apollo 17 mission December 13, 1972. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 authority, is shot inside the lunar module on the lunar surface after the second extravehicular movement (EVA) of his main goal December 12, 1972. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Scientist-space explorer Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 lunar module pilot, utilizes a customizable testing scoop to recover lunar examples amid the second Apollo 17 extravehicular action December 12, 1972. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
The plaque which the Apollo 11 space travelers left on the moon in remembrance of the notable lunar landing mission is envisioned July 20, 1969. The plaque peruses: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all Mankind. Neil A. Armstrong - Michael Collins - Edwin E . Aldrin Jr." REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Astronaut Alan L. Bean holds a Special Environmental Sample Container loaded with lunar soil gathered amid the Apollo 12 mission November 19, 1969. Mission authority Charles Conrad Jr., who took this photo, is reflected in Bean's head protector visor. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, is envisioned in the Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) amid the lunar landing mission July 20, 1969. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, works a 70mm Hasselblad camera amid his extravehicular action (EVA) on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission March 6, 1969. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
The Apollo 9 Lunar Module (LM), "Insect", is imagined in a lunar landing arrangement, as shot from the Command and Service Modules (CSM) on the fifth day of the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission March 7, 1969. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Earth is imagined from 10,000 nautical miles away amid the Apollo 11 mission July 16, 1969. REUTERS/NASA/Handout
Astronaut Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module LM pilot, sends the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package ALSEP amid the Apollo 12 mission November 19, 1969. REUTERS/NASA/Handout