NASA releases thousands of stunning Apollo moon mission photos
Humans can gain even more inspiration from missions to our closest celestial neighbor thanks to the release of thousands of astonishing images last week.
More than 8,400 high-resolution images released by the Project Apollo Archive landed on Flickr of NASA's historic moon missions, according to a blog post by Matthew Roth, a community manager at Flickr. Scans of original photos from the famous chest-mounted Hasselblad cameras used by astronauts during the missions are available at the site.
While the high-resolution photos of familiar scenes are still inspiring, the images as a whole help lend more perspective to the intimacy of training for, traveling to and exploring the moon.
"The Project Apollo Archive serves as an online reference source and repository of digital images pertaining to the historic manned lunar landing program," according to its website.
Kipp Teague, Project Apollo Archive's founder, said in a release that the distribution of the images was not a NASA undertaking, but an independent one.
"Thank you for your interest and for helping to keep alive the spirit of space exploration and its history," Teague said.
Project Apollo Archive's Facebook page also skyrocketed in growth over the past several days, reaching more than 20,000 "likes" by early Monday.
See the entire archive of images here.
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