Click on the links below to explore USGS Astrogeology Center's involvement in the Apollo program and lunar legacy:
Grover Photo Collection
View the online collection of historic photos of the grover.
Astrogeology's First Published Lunar Map
Learn about the space race and what went into producing the first lunar map.
| Apollo Panoramas Check out the panoramic photos created from digitized photographs collected during the Apollo missions. |
Moon Apollo Anaglyphs View 3D images of Apollo mission photos with red-blue or red-green glasses. |
| Traverse Maps Explore the traverse maps from each Apollo mission. These maps indicate the paths traveled during the mission by the astronauts. |
Lunar Orbiter Digitization Read about the Lunar Orbiter Project and view the products produced with them. |
| Pioneers Learn about the pioneers of Astrogeology and key figures that helped during the Apollo missions. |
Grover Photo Collection See historical photos of astronauts training with Grover, the geologic rover, instrumental in training the astronauts for the Apollo space missions. You can see Grover in person at the Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, AZ, during regular business hours. |
| Apollo Era Video Collection Watch and search historic RPIF archived footage from the Apollo era. |
USGS Astrogeology's First Published Lunar Map Find out about the first lunar map produced and details of the Moon race competition. |
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Grover Photo Collection
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.
1961: USGS Astrogeology's First Published Map
The race to the moon began on August 17, 1958, and the Soviet Union won. This isn't the opening line of an alternate history story; rather, it is an acknowledgment that more than one moon race took place. The first, with the goal of launching a small automated spacecraft to the moon, began with the liftoff of the Able 1 lunar orbiter, a 38-kilogram U.S. Air Force (USAF) probe. (It was later re
Astrolink
- Overview
Click on the links below to explore USGS Astrogeology Center's involvement in the Apollo program and lunar legacy:
Grover Photo Collection
View the online collection of historic photos of the grover.
Astrogeology's First Published Lunar Map
Learn about the space race and what went into producing the first lunar map.
Apollo Panoramas
Check out the panoramic photos created from digitized photographs collected during the Apollo missions.Moon Apollo Anaglyphs
View 3D images of Apollo mission photos with red-blue or red-green glasses.Traverse Maps
Explore the traverse maps from each Apollo mission. These maps indicate the paths traveled during the mission by the astronauts.Lunar Orbiter Digitization
Read about the Lunar Orbiter Project and view the products produced with them.Pioneers
Learn about the pioneers of Astrogeology and key figures that helped during the Apollo missions.Grover Photo Collection
See historical photos of astronauts training with Grover, the geologic rover, instrumental in training the astronauts for the Apollo space missions. You can see Grover in person at the Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, AZ, during regular business hours.Apollo Era Video Collection
Watch and search historic RPIF archived footage from the Apollo era.USGS Astrogeology's First Published Lunar Map
Find out about the first lunar map produced and details of the Moon race competition. - Science
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Grover Photo Collection
The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle was an engineering marvel, but It would have collapsed on Earth under the weight of a suited astronaut. That's because it was designed to operate in lunar gravity, which pulls with about 15% as much force as Earth gravity. In the 1960s, engineers at the U.S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Branch built a near-copy of the Apollo rover that could be used on Earth for...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.
1961: USGS Astrogeology's First Published Map
The race to the moon began on August 17, 1958, and the Soviet Union won. This isn't the opening line of an alternate history story; rather, it is an acknowledgment that more than one moon race took place. The first, with the goal of launching a small automated spacecraft to the moon, began with the liftoff of the Able 1 lunar orbiter, a 38-kilogram U.S. Air Force (USAF) probe. (It was later re
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...