PIX4597680: Apollo 16: the LEM en approche du module de commande - Apollo 16: LM ascent stage approaching CSM - Le LEM en approche du module de commande d'Apollo 16. 23/04/1972. (23 April 1972) The ascent stage of the Apollo 16 Lunar Module (LM) approaches the Command and Service Modules (CSM) during rendezvous, with a contrasting background of darkness and the Sea of Fertility (Mare Fecundatatis). Taken from the CSM, the photo shows the aft side of the LM during a yaw maneuver. Note the buckled thermal panels. Messier and Messier A (right center) are among the most readily identifiable features on the surface below / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597896: Apollo 17: E. Cernan on the Moon - Apollo 17: E. Cernan on the Moon - Eugene Cernan tests the lunar jeep during the first extravehicular exit. 11/12/1972 Apollo 17: Cernan test - driving the LRV near the L / Bridgeman Images

PIX4598221: Apollo 17: E. Cernan in LEM - Apollo 17: E. Cernan inside the LM after EVA. Dec 13 1972 - Eugene Cernan in the LEM after his third extravehicular release. 13/12/1972. Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 commander, is photographed inside the lunar module on the lunar surface following the third extravehicular activity (EVA - 3) of his mission. Note lunar dust on his suit / Bridgeman Images

PIX4598245: Apollo 17: main site - Apollo 17 lunar landing site - Shadow of Cernan and view of the main site with H. Schmitt, the LEM and the lunar jeep. 11/12/1972. Apollo 17 lunar landing site with shadow of E.Cerna / Bridgeman Images

PIX4598259: Apollo 17: main site - Apollo 17 lunar landing site - View of the main site of Taurus - Littrow with the LEM. One of the last photos taken during the Apollo mission 17. 11/12/1972. The Lunar Module (LM) is in the background of this view of the Taurus - Littrow landing site. This was one of the last photographs taken on the lunar surface. The Apollo 17 crewmembers were astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, commander; Ronald E. Evans, command and service module pilot; and Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. 11 Dec 1972 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595382: Decollage Apollo 10 - Apollo 10 launch - Decollage of the Saturn V/Apollo 10 rocket, Kennedy Space Center. 18/05/1969. The Apollo 10 (Spacecraft 106/Lunar Module 4/Saturn 505) space vehicle is launched from Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida at 12:49 p.m., May 18, 1969. Aboard the spacecraft are astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, commander; John W. Young, command module pilot; and Eugene A. Cernan, lunar module pilot. The eight - day, lunar orbit mission will mark the first time the complete Apollo spacecraft has operated around the moon and the second manned flight for the Lunar Module (LM). Two Apollo 10 astronauts, Stafford and Cernan, are scheduled to descend to within eight nautical miles of the moon's surface in the LM. 18 May 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595549: N. Armstrong 04/1969 - Neil Armstrong during a training exercise. 22/04/1969. Neil Armstrong during a training exercise as placing samples into a bags. Apr 22 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595569: E. Aldrin en formation - E.Aldrin training with SWC experiment. 04/1969 - Edwin Aldrin during a training exercise. 22/04/1969. Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., wearing an Extravehicular Mobility Unit, simulates deploying the Solar Wind Composition (SWC) experiment on the surface of the moon during a training exercise in bldg 9 on April 22, 1969. The SWC is a component of the Early Apollo Scientific Experiment Package (EASEP) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596625: Apollo 12: A. Bean and lunar soil samples - Apollo 12: A.Bean and lunar soil sample - Alan Bean holding a container filled with lunar dust. Reflecting on his visor, Conrad taking the picture. 19/11/1969. Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission, holds a Special Environmental Sample Container filled with lunar soil collected during the extravehicular activity (EVA) in which astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., commander, and Bean participated. Connrad, who took this picture, is reflected in the helmet visor of the lunar module pilot / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596690: Apollo 12: A. Bean on the Moon - Apollo 12: A. Bean on the Moon - Alan L. Bean carries scientific instruments to be deployed on the Moon. 19/11/1969. Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot, traverses with the two sub packages of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) during the first Apollo 12 extravehicular activity (EVA). Bean deployed the ALSEP components 300 feet from the Lunar Module (LM). The LM and deployed erectable S - band antenna can be seen in the background. 19 Nov 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596726: Apollo 13: fusee Saturn V - Apollo 13: Saturn V during rollout - Fusee Saturn V/Apollo 13 en route to its fire pad. 15/12/1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596763: Apollo 13: transport of the Saturn V rocket to its firing range - Apollo 13: Saturn V during rollout - Fusee Saturn V/Apollo 13 en route to its firing range. 16 December 1969. December 16, 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596946: Apollo 13: astronauts return - Apollo 13 crew return - Astronaut John L. Swigert Jr. is hoisted aboard a helicopter to be taken aboard the USS Iwo Jima airplane door. Astronaut Jim Lovell is still in the inflatable boat. April 17, 1970. Astronaut John L. Swigert Jr., command module pilot, is lifted aboard a helicopter in a “Billy Pugh”” net while astronaut James A. Lovell Jr., commander, awaits his turn. Astronaut Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot, is already aboard the helicopter. In the life raft with Lovell, and in the water are several U.S. Navy underwater demolition team swimmers, who assisted in the recovery operations. The crew was taken to the USS Iwo Jima, prime recovery ship, several minutes after the Apollo 13 spacecraft splashed down at 12:07:44 p.m. (CST), April 17, 1970 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596069: Apollo 11: E. Aldrin installs scientific experiments - Apollo 11: Aldrin places experiment packages - Edwin Aldrin installs scientific material. 20/07/1969. Edwin Aldrin places experiment packages; he has put the LRRR down on the surface and has turned to his left to find a spot for the seismometer. Jul 20 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596130: Apollo 11: E. Aldrin and the seismometer - Apollo 11: Aldrin with seismic experiment - Aldrin pres du sismometer assemble. 20/07/1969. The sensitive instrument remained on the Lunar surface to radio back information concerning moonquakes, landslides and meteorite impacts / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596139: Apollo 11: the laser reflector (LRRR) - Apollo 11: the laser ranging retroreflector (LRRR) - Laser reflector used to calculate the distance from Earth to Moon from terrestrial observatories. 20/07/1969. Post - deployment photo of the laser ranging retroreflector (LRRR) with the stereo camera perched on a rock in the background / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596273: Apollo 11: Houston Control Room - Apollo 11: Mission Control Room during the EVA. Jul 20 1969 - Observation of the extravehicular exit of Armstrong and Aldrin from the control room. 20/07/1969. Overall view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, bldg 30, during the lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. The television monitor shows Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin on the surface of the moon / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596351: Apollo 11: lunar rock - Apollo 11: lunar rock - Close up of lunar rocks contained in the first container of samples brought by astronauts from the Apollo 11 mission. 26 July 1969. A close - up view of the lunar rocks contained in the first Apollo 11 sample return container. The rock box was opened for the first time in the Vacuum Laboratory of the Manned Spacecraft Center's Lunar Receiving Laboratory, Building 37, at 3:55 p.m. (CDT), Saturday, July 26, 1969. The gloved hand gives an indication of size. This box also contained the Solar Wind Composition experiment (not shown) and two core tubes for subsurface samples (not shown). These lunar samples were collected by astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. during their lunar surface extravehicular activity on July 20, 1969. 26 July 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596448: Apollo 12: Alan Bean - Alan L. Bean, pilot of the lunar module. 22/09/1969. Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module Pilot. Sep 22 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597214: Apollo 15: unloading of the Saturn V rocket - Apollo 15 liftoff - Decolling of the Saturn V/Apollo 15 rocket. 26/07/1971. Jul 26 1971 / Bridgeman Images

RCT4597220: Le Fouquet's, Avenue des Champs Elsyees in Paris., Castan, Remy / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597235: Apollo 15: The Saturn V rocket goes towards its firing pitch - Apollo 15 rollout to Launch Complex 39 - The Saturn V/Apollo 15 rocket en route to its firing pitch. 11/05/1971. High angle view showing the Apollo 15 space vehicle on the way from the Vehicle Assembly Building. May 197 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597364: Apollo 15 astronauts return - Apollo 15 command module near splashdown - The Apollo 15 control module at landing. 07/08/1971. The Apollo 15 Command Module, with Astronauts David R. Scott, Alfred M. Worden and James B. Irwin aboard, nears a safe touchdown in the mid - Pacific Ocean to end their lunar landing mission. Although causing no harm to the crewmen, one of the three main parachutes failed to function properly. The splashdown occurred at 3:45:53 p.m., August 7, 1971, some 330 miles north of Honolulu, Hawaii. The three astronauts were picked up by helicopter and flown to the prime recovery ship USS Okinawa, which was only 6 1/2 miles away / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597386: Emblem of the mission Apollo 16 - Apollo 16 mission insignia - Emblem of the mission Apollo 16. 09/11/1971 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597401: Apollo 16: J. Young - Portrait of John Young, Commander Apollo 16. 01/10/1971. Portrait of John Young, apollo 16 commander. Oct 1 1971 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597461: Apollo 16: J. Young on the Moon - John Young at the ALSEP site during first Apollo 16 EVA - John Young on the site of the scientific station ALSEP. 21/04/1972. Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, stands at the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) deployment site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity (EVA - 1) at the Descartes landing site. The components of the ALSEP are in the background. The lunar surface drill is just behind and to the right of astronaut Young. The dragon's rack and bore stems are to the left. The three - sensor Lunar Surface Magnetometer is beyond the rack. The dark object in the right background is the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG). Between the RTG and the drill is the Heat Flow Experiment. A part of the Central Station is at the right center edge of the picture. This photograph was taken by astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot. Apr 21 1972 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597684: Apollo 16: The command module seen from the LEM - LM ascent stage approaching CSM - The command module of Apollo 16 seen from the LEM before its mooring. 23 April 1972. (23 April 1972) The Apollo Command and Service Modules (CSM) “” Casper”” approaches the Lunar Module (LM) Orion, from which this photograph was made. The two spacecraft are about to make their final rendezvous of the mission, on April 23, 1972. Astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke Jr. aboard the LM, were returning to the CSM, in lunar orbit, after three successful days on the lunar surface. Astronaut Thomas K. (Ken) Mattingly II, command module pilot, remained with the CSM in lunar orbit, while Young and Duke descended in the LM to explore the Descartes region of the Moon / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597714: Back Apollo 16 - Apollo 16 splashed down - Ditching of the control module of Apollo 16 in the Pacific Ocean. 27/04/1972. The Apollo 16 Command Module, with astronauts John W. Young, Thomas K. Mattingly II, and Charles M. Duke Jr. aboard, splashed down in the central Pacific Ocean to successfully conclude their lunar landing mission. The splashdown occurred at 290:37:06 ground elapsed time, 1:45:06 p.m. (CST) Thursday, April 27, 1972, at coordinates of 00:43.2 degrees south latitude and 156:11.4 degrees west longitude. A point approximately 215 miles southeast of Christmas Island. Later the three crew men were picked up by a helicopter from the prime recovery ship U.S.S. Ticonderoga / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597756: Apollo 17 on its fire pad - Apollo 17 Pre - Launch - Saturn V/Apollo 17 rocket on its fire pad. 12/1972. The Apollo 17 Space Vehicle sits poised beneath a full moon on Launch Pad 39A during launch countdown. Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Commander; Ronald A. Evans, Command Module Pilot; and Dr. Harrison H. Jack Schmitt, Lunar Module Pilot, will be the crew for the sixth manned lunar landing mission / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596644: Apollo 12: Lunar sample - View of Apollo 12 lunar sample - Lunar soil sample collected during the Apollo 12 mission. A close - up view of Apollo 12 lunar sample no. 12025, called Core Sample 1, and collected on the lunar surface, about 225 meters below the point where the Apollo 12 Lunar Module touched down. This core sample and others collected on the Apollo 12 mission differ from those collected by the Apollo 11 crewmen in the Sea of Tranquility in that the Apollo 12 core samples have easily recognizable stratigraphy and two coherent crust - like layers. This sample has dominantly fine - grained texture / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596664: Apollo 13: original crew - Apollo 13: original crew - Original crew Apollo 13, from left to right: James A. Lovell, Thomas K. Mattingly and Fred W. Haise. 11/12/1969. From left to right: James A. Lovell, Commander; Thomas K. Mattingly, Command Module pilot and Fred W. Haise, Lunar Module pilot. Dec 11 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595647: Apollo 11 astronauts depart - Apollo 11 crew on their way to launch pad - Arrival of the Apollo 11 crew on the launch site. 16/07/1969. Prime crew heads for the launch pad. Jul 16 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MDA4596958: Detail of iron works of a window of the PeuPalais, Paris 8th arrondissement. The Peure Palais building was built by Charles Girault (1851-1932) for the 1900 World Exhibition. It is now home to the Musee des Beaux Arts of the City of Paris, which includes many works of Antiquite in the 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597053: Apollo 14: A. Shepard on the Moon - Apollo 14: A.Shepard moonwalk - Extra vehicle exit by astronaut Alan Shepard. 05/02/1971 Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander, holds his right glove over his helmet visor as if to shade his eyes from the brilliant sun. This photo was taken by astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, through the window of the Lunar Module (LM). Shepard and Mitchell descended in the LM to explore the moon, while astronaut Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit. This photograph was taken during the first of two extravehicular activities (EVA). 5 Feb. 1971 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4597125: Apollo 14: E. Mitchell on the Moon - Apollo 14: E. Mitchell moonwalk - Extravehicular release of Edgar Mitchell with a map. 05/02/1971. Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot, moves across the lunar surface as he looks over a traverse map during an extravehicular activity (EVA). Lunar dust can be seen clinging to the boots and legs of the space suit. Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander, and Mitchell explored the lunar surface while astronaut Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot, orbited the moon in the Command and Service Modules (CSM) / Bridgeman Images

MDA4599501: Le Cafe de Flore, 172 boulevard Saint Germain, Paris 6th arrondissement. / Bridgeman Images