Exploration of the Moon

1. Exploration of the Moon Adapted from presentation by John W. Delano, Ph.D. Distinguished Teaching Professor Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences University at Albany (SUNY)

2. 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

3. Pyramid of Cheops (2540 BCE)

5. Apollo Saturn V on pad 39A

6. Apollo 11 lift-off

8. Apollo 11 landing site in SW Mare Tranquillitatis

9. Apollo 11 July 20, 1969

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

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

12. Lunar laser retro reflectors Apollo 11 Apollo 14

13. Apollo 11: Mare Tranquillitatis View looking toward the ENE

14. Earthrise as viewed from lunar orbit by crew of Apollo 11

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

16. Apollo 11 regolith breccia: 10018

17. Apollo 12: Astronaut Bean descends LM ladder toward lunar surface

18. Apollo 14: Alan Shepard on surface

19. Descent and landing of Apollo 15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvKg68DcTZA

20. Apollo 15

21. Apollo 15 15016

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

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

24. Apollo 17

25. Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan with Earth in the background