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Large mound of broken rock, known as a "retarc," created by the Sulky underground nuclear test on December 18, 1964, as part of Operation Whetstone and Project Plowshare, Nevada Test Site.

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Test Support Unit with the Explorer, a lunar rover vehicle simulator at Cinder Lake Crater Field east of Flagstaff, Arizona, December 1968. (USGS)

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April 5, 1958 - Ripple Rock, an underwater mountain within Seymour Narrows near Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada, was destroyed by a programmed underwater explosion.

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January 1st, 1971 - Apollo 15 astronauts Jim Irwin and Dave Scott training in the lunar rover vehicle (LRV) at Cinder Lake, south of Flagstaff, Arizona. Cinder Lake was designed by the United States Geological Survey's Branch of Astrogeology to simulate the cratered surface of the Moon.

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Relief map of Zonnebeke area, Belgium, 1919.
These maps were made in London by the Australian War Records Section, by men who were still in England, waiting to be repatriated home, after WWI.
The reasons behind the creation of these maps are unclear. Maps like this one were made with a final coat of papier-mâché. Once the map was dried, details were transferred from the relevant 1:10,000 or 1:20,000 trench map by hand. All those details, including map grid squares were included on the items as they were maps in the truest sense of the word, not just models of the landscape.

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The Apollo 15 crew conduct geological training in Apollo Valley on Hawaii's Big Island, 1970.

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Reduced gravity simulation, 3 June 1965. NASA used devices like this Reduced Gravity Simulator to observe the effect of reduced gravity on movement.

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The astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Gene Cernan view a crater within the Cinder Lake Crater Field. Both men went on to walk on the surface of the moon in 1972, during Apollo 17.

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Two members of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission participate in lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) simulations in the Flight Crew Training Building at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., commander (facing camera), simulates picking up samples. Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot, simulates photographic lunar rock sample documentation. (6 Oct. 1969)

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Fourteen NASA astronauts pose for group pictures at Stead Air Force Base in Nevada after a three-day stay in the Nevada desert where they completed a course in desert survival training. Front row: (left to right) William Anders, Walter Cunningham, Roger Chaffee, Richard Gordon, and Michael Collins. Second row: (left to right) Clifton Williams, Eugene Cernan, David Scott, Donn Eisele, Russell Schweickart, Edwin Aldrin, Alan Bean, Charles Bassett and Theodore Freeman, 1964.

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