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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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Gemini/Apollo astronauts pose during desert training at Stead Air Force Base in Nevada in 1964. They are (front row) Frank Borman; James A. Lovell; John W. Young; Charles Conrad; James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White. (Back row) Ray Zedehar (Astronaut Training Officer); Thomas P. Stafford; Donald K. Slayton; Neil A. Armstrong and Elliot M. See.

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Lava del Vesuvio, Napoli, 1872 [Photo: Giorgio Sommer]

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‘Muroc Maru’, 28 August 1944, Rogers Dry Lake, Southern California.
A 200 meters wooden replica of a Japanese Atago-class heavy cruiser (dubbed the Muroc Maru) was constructed during 1943 on this lakebed for skip-bombing practice. The bright Sand dunes, under certain conditions, created the illusion of water. [Edwards Air Force Base History Office]

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Graf Zeppelin flying over Guanabara Bay, 25 May 1930.

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Project LOLA or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach was a simulator built at Langley, 1961.(NASA)

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