Apollo 11 Moon Landing (Recreation)
Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon July 20, 1969. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56:15 UTC. Aldrin joined him about 20 minutes later. They spent about two and a quarter hours…

Apollo 11 Moon Landing (VR Experience)
Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon July 20, 1969. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56:15 UTC. Aldrin joined him about 20 minutes later. They spent about two and a quarter hours…

Apollo 16MM Maurer Data Acquisition Camera
Apollo 11 carried two Maurer data acquisition cameras, one on the command module and one on the lunar module. The cameras were used primarily to record engineering data and for continuous-sequence terrain photography. The CM camera had lenses of 5-mm, 10-mm,…

Apollo 70mm Hasselblad EL Data Camera
The electrically powered camera, carried on the lunar module, featured semiautomatic operation. It used 60-mm Biogon lens exclusively. The operating sequence was initiated by squeezing a trigger mounted on the camera handle. A reseau grid was set in front…

Apollo Gnoman Tripod
This gnomon is like those used on the lunar surface by Apollo astronauts during their scientific and photographic tasks. A gnomon is a gimbaled stadia rod mounted on a tripod so that the rod was free to point vertically. When deployed on the lunar surface,…

Apollo Heavier Weight Hammer
Hammers of this style were used on Apollo 14, 15, 16 and 17. However, there were minor changes in configuration of the handle and adapter through out these missions. This tool was used to break chips from rocks or to drive core tubes into the soil. It wasdesigned…

Apollo Moon Golf Club
On Feb. 6, 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard became the first person to play golf on the moon. He smuggled a makeshift golf club head onto the spacecraft inside a sock. The first ball he hit veered into a nearby crater, but with a solid second swing,…


Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Late-stage photography by Rosetta allowed for a much higher resolution dataset to be acquired, thus enabling much higher fidelity photogrammetry to be derived from that data, underscoring the vast potential for photography to play a bigger role in future missions.…

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Sections)
The European Space Agency’s historic Rosetta mission probe was launched 2 March 2004 on a 10-year journey to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The mission planned to study the comet’s nucleus and its environment for nearly two years, and land…