The Apollo Moon Landings in Photos

Photographs from the six Apollo missions that landed astronauts on the Moon, from Apollo 11 in July 1969 to Apollo 17 in December 1972, in mission order. Nearly all were taken by the crews themselves on Hasselblad cameras, on the surface or from lunar orbit. A photo earns its place by showing something particular about a landing: the lunar modules, the moonwalkers at work, the rovers, the geology they came for or the Earth seen from a landing mission. Earthrise is left out because Apollo 8 orbited the Moon without landing. The Blue Marble stays: the Apollo 17 crew took it on the way to their landing.