To the moon and back: Apollo lunar landings

Tuesday 17 January 2017 08:45, UK

NASA

Image: All of the six moon landings to date were part of NASA's Apollo programme, between 1961 to 1972. Apollo 11 was the first to land safely on the moon on 20 July, 1969, with its crew: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin
Image: Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon
Image: Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin ride the special transport van over to Launch Complex 39A where their spacecraft awaited them
Image: The Apollo 12 mission crew (L-R) Charles Conrad, Jr, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean in front of their Saturn V space vehicle
Image: Charles Conrad Jr stands with the US flag on the lunar surface during the Apollo 12 mission in November 1969
Image: Astronaut Alan Bean holds a sample container filled with lunar soil collected during the Apollo 12 mission
Image: The Apollo 14 crew module landed on the moon 46 years ago
Image: Astronaut Alan Shepard wears his space suit and a smile during a training simulation for the Apollo 14 mission
Image: Alan Shepard holds the pole of a US flag on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 14 mission
Image: Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 14 and is one of only 12 men to have walked on the moon
Image: Apollo 15 commander Dave Scott takes samples from the lunar surface during the Apollo 15 mission in July 1971
Image: Apollo 16 lunar module pilot Charles Duke
Image: Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke on the surface of the moon during the manned Apollo 16 mission
Image: Apollo 16 command module pilot Ken Mattingly in his space suit
Image: Eugene Cernan was commander of Apollo 17 and the last man to walk on the moon
Image: Eugene Cernan during his moonwalk in December 1972
Image: Astronaut Ronald Evans during the Apollo 17 spacecraft's trans-Earth coast

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