Collection Highlights Completed
The USGS/NASA Astrogeology RPIF contains many unique research materials and artifacts. Including:
Images and films of Apollo astronaut trainingForty years of draft map materials including original airbrush imagesDocuments chronicling USGS Astrogeology's involvement in 50 years of space mission planningSpecial document collections devoted to asteroid impact science, the life and career of Eugene Shoemaker, and astronaut trainingAn inventory of approximately 60,000 maps including over 2500 unique titlesGrover, the Geologic Rover, a full-size Apollo astronaut training vehicle from the 1960sAn extensive collection of vintage map-making tools dating to the 1950sA complete set of early Mariner Mars mission imageryBelow are other science projects associated with this project.
Astrolink Online Exhibits
The NASA/USGS Astrolink is dedicated to providing online exhibits of archived materials. Astrolink houses a large collection of historical artifacts in relation to space exploration, map-making, and planetary geology.
Astrolink
- Overview
The USGS/NASA Astrogeology RPIF contains many unique research materials and artifacts. Including:
Images and films of Apollo astronaut trainingForty years of draft map materials including original airbrush imagesDocuments chronicling USGS Astrogeology's involvement in 50 years of space mission planningSpecial document collections devoted to asteroid impact science, the life and career of Eugene Shoemaker, and astronaut trainingAn inventory of approximately 60,000 maps including over 2500 unique titlesGrover, the Geologic Rover, a full-size Apollo astronaut training vehicle from the 1960sAn extensive collection of vintage map-making tools dating to the 1950sA complete set of early Mariner Mars mission imagery - Science
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Astrolink Online Exhibits
The NASA/USGS Astrolink is dedicated to providing online exhibits of archived materials. Astrolink houses a large collection of historical artifacts in relation to space exploration, map-making, and planetary geology.
Astrolink
The NASA/USGS Astrolink , located in the Shoemaker Building (Building 6) on the USGS Campus in Flagstaff, Arizona, is a facility of the USGS Astrogeology Science Center. Astrolink houses 3,000 square feet of climate-controlled space with more than 100,000 lunar and planetary maps, a reference library, an ever-growing photo and document archive that chronicles the history and on-going activities of...