Apollo moon missions

Hack the Moon tells the remarkable story of the engineers behind the revolutionary technologies developed for the Apollo missions. Explore newly released photos, videos and stories about the unsung heroes behind the moon landing. In the face of epic challenges, and with a fraction of today’s technology these are the people who hacked the moon.

Fifty years on, here are four things that made the Apollo Moon programme one of humankind's greatest technological achievements.

The highlight of the last human spaceflight to the Moon occurred on 11 Dec. 1972, with the lunar landing of Apollo 17. After a four-day journey to the Moon, astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt descended to the lunar surface while crewmate Ronald Evans remained in lunar orbit. Schmitt, the only professional geologist to walk on the Moon, and Cernan landed in the Taurus-Littrow highlands region, an area that offered a unique combination of old and young geologic material. Credit…

Apollo 12, Charles Conrad (1969)

Humans walked on the moon on July 20, 1969.

Photography Above The Clouds

Use a smartphone or GPS device to navigate to the provided coordinates. Look for a micro hidden container. When you find it, write your name and date in the logbook. If you take something from the container, leave something in exchange. The terrain is 1.5 and difficulty is 1 (out of 5).

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Selection of super hi-res images from the Apollo 11 mission, from the criss-cross of boot prints in the lunar dust, to Neil Armstrong's watery gaze after first landing.

A photo, taken by the Apollo 11 crew on their way home from the moon, showed both the first and last lunar landing sites. The first manned lunar landing, Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, occurred at the southwestern part of the Sea of Tranquility. Apollo 17, the final Apollo mission, touched down in the Taurus-Littrow area, a combination mountainous highland and lowlands valley region. The Apollo 17 astronauts took advantage of the lunar roving vehicle developed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight…

Apollo 9

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