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Incredible Moon landing panoramas come to life

They are the images that have defined space travel for 50 years.

In 2015, 10,000 high resolution photographs taken by the astronauts on the Apollo lunar missions in the 1960s and 70s were uploaded to Flickr.

They showed everything, from first steps on the Moon in 1969 to mundane tasks. But they also showed - when several sequential images were stitched together - incredible panoramas of the surface of the Moon.

As you can see here, with the images combined, it gives you the chance to see the Moon just as those lunar pioneers did.

By using the slide tool, you can see how the images look when enhanced .

The Apollo astronauts all had Hasselbad cameras strapped to their chests while on their surface missions.

The Project Apollo archive was created in 1999 with the pictures later digitalised by scanning the original films on high resolution scanners.

Here, we have enhanced the images further, to give them new life.

Moon landing
Moon landing
Moon landing
Moon landing
Moon landing
Moon landing
Planting the flag for posterity
Planting the flag for posterity
Lunar module as seen from the Columbia
Lunar module as seen from the Columbia
Close-up of the Moon’s pockmarked surface
Close-up of the Moon’s pockmarked surface

Kipp Teague oversaw the uploading of the photos to the public domain in 2015.

He said at the time the uploaded galleries were a fresh presentation of NASA’s Apollo imagery, “as it was originally provided in its raw, high-resolution and unprocessed form”.

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon
Moon landing Neil armstrong
Moon landing Neil armstrong

The gallery includes photos from Apollo missions 7 to 17, including famous images from the first moon landing as well as pictures that came back with the crew of the aborted Apollo 13 mission.

Michael Collins stayed behind in the spacecraft
Michael Collins stayed behind in the spacecraft
Moon landing
Moon landing

By stitching together seven separate images here, we can see the Moon through the astronauts’ eyes.

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