Adapted from presentation by John W. Delano, Ph.D. Distinguished Teaching Professor

Associate Dean, College of Arts and SciencesUniversity at Albany (SUNY)

Exploration of the Moon

Apollo 11 landing video (left frame) with view of same area from NASA’s Lunar

Reconnaissance Orbiter (right frame)

Landing video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpmDNdm5tmg

Pyramid of Cheops (2540 BCE)

Apollo Saturn V on pad 39A

Apollo 11 lift-offApollo 11 lift-off

Apollo 11 landing site in SW Mare Tranquillitatis

Apollo 11July 20, 1969

View looking WNW from rim of Little West Crater (Apollo 11 )

Apollo 11: Astronaut Aldrin at the ALSEP site with seismometer and laser retroreflector

Lunar laser retro reflectors

Apollo 11 Apollo 14

Apollo 11: Mare TranquillitatisView looking toward the ENE

Earthrise as viewed from lunar orbit by crew of Apollo 11

View from window of Apollo 11 LM Eagle shortly after landing in Mare Tranquillitatis

Apollo 11 regolith breccia: 10018

Apollo 12: Astronaut Bean descends LM ladder toward lunar surface

Apollo 14: Alan Shepard on surface

Descent and landing of Apollo 15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvKg68DcTZA

Apollo 15 Apollo 15

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Apollo 15 Apollo 15

Apollo 15 basalt, 15016 “seatbelt rock” Station 3 (Rhysling)

Apollo 15 basalt, 15016 “seatbelt rock” Station 3 (Rhysling)

Apollo 16: Astronaut Young leaping and saluting US flag at Descartes landing siteApollo 16: Astronaut Young leaping and saluting US flag at Descartes landing site

Apollo 17

Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan with Earth in the backgroundApollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan with Earth in the background