Apollo Moon Pictures Newly Digitized

Posted on July 23, 2004 at 6:13 PM in 'Random Crap I Found On The Internet' with tags 'space, nasa, astronomy, moon'

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the landing on the Moon, NASA has taken all of the film taken during the Apollo space program out of the freezer, thawed them out and scanned them at high resolution. Awesome. Some of my favorites:

Aerial view of Apollo 10 Saturn V during rollout

Aldrin poses for portrait / Armstrong's reflection in visor

There are several resolutions available for each image, all the way up to full res, 1MB+ versions of each photo. However, in an outstanding display of unusability, every link on their site is a javascript function, so I can't provide links to the pages where the images appear. So I've just linked to the highest res ones available.

One thing I didn't know: the US Flag planted by the Apollo 11 astronauts "did not stand long. It was blown over during takeoff by the LM ascent engine's exhaust plume".

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