Saturday night I was writing a blog post and checking email from other bloggers and saw an email from National Geographic. I clicked on it and it was a news digest that talked about this that and the other and then I saw something that got my attention. An amateur photographer had talked NASA into giving him a bunch of DVD’s of scans of photographs taken during the Apollo Moon missions a long time ago. What!!!! Anyway the guy, Kipp Teague, along with his friend Eric Jones uploaded 13,000 images from the space program up to Flickr where they sit free for anybody to use for whatever they want (within reason). There are not copyrighted (after all, the US Citizens among us have already paid for them.) They are spectacular.
Time was, Space had a thrill, going to the moon was a spectacular vision.
Even now, I can’t believe we did it. Talk about an achievement. 
The follow on was kind of boring. The Space Shuttle to me was basically an expensive, hazardous, semitruck. Hauling up groceries and taking back garbage from the International Space Station. 
Apollo,Mercury, Gemini, those were adventures. 
These pictures bring it back. Most of them are kind of boring. The link I gave you will take you to instructions on how to go right to the good ones. These were mainly Hasselbad film cameras but also lots of other types.
I still can’t believe that we walked on the moon. Can you? I can’t believe that all these photos exist.
Go check it out.
That whole incredible event does seem unreal. Thank you for sharing these amazing photos. I have always wondered why there was never another trip but I guess the next destination is Mars.
You’re right, Yogi. Even after all these years it’s hard to believe humans actually reached the moon. These photos are amazing!
Who knew that you could just ask a government agency for a bunch of incredibly cool photos and they would say, “Shure, here ya go.” What a priceless set of images that can now be viewed by the world.
I feel the same as EG!!! It is still amazing and the photos are superb!! Thanks for sharing!! Hope your week is off to a great start!! Enjoy!
Well, yes, I do believe!!! (Although it was once my displeasure to converse with a man who sincerely believed that the whole thing was just an hoax). So I believe — and I remember watching the landing way back then. So amazing. It is just hard to imagine how we figured it all out. And hard to imagine how anyone was brave enough to volunteer at first.
These pictures are wonderful; thank you for letting us know about this and for sharing them.
The moon walk was a highlight of America’s space missions.