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

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Rocket Man just after lift off with the LRV, Hopi Buttes, Arizona, 1966.

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Apollo 1 Crew Members (June 1966). Prime crew members announced by NASA for the first manned Apollo 1 flight practice water egress procedures in a swimming pool at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston. Astronaut Edward H. White II rides life raft in the foreground. Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee sits in hatch of the boilerplate model of the spacecraft. Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, third member of the crew, waits inside the spacecraft. The Apollo 1 never made it to space, though, as the crew was lost in a fire during a ground simulation. (NASA)

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Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator, 1963.[NASA]

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Aerial view of Cinder Lake Crater Field 2, part of the training sites built for training site for the Apollo program [USGS].

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In 1967 the United States Geological Survey (USGS) created in Arizona a training site for the Apollo program. The craters, detonated with various explosives, looked similar to the ones found in particular landing sites on the Moon. In July of 1968, it was added a second crater field (in this photograph) at Cinder Lake [USGS].

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The Full Moon, Yerkes Observatory. Keystone View Company. Created before 1917. Stereoscopic albumen print. Sheet: 7.7 × 15.2 cm / mount: 8.8 × 17.8 cm.

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Moon Model Prepared by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Germany, in 1898. Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, 1900. 11x14 inch glass negative

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Moon Model Prepared by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Germany, in 1898. Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, 1900. 8x10 inch glass negative

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James Nasmyth, Copernicus’ crater study model in plaster, 1870’s One of 15 assorted photographs of Nasmyth’s crater models illuminated at a low angle illustrating unknown lunar craters and…

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