SPACE COVERAGE PHOTOGRAPHS

FINDING AID

PROJECT APOLLO

1960s

• APOLLO 8
• APOLLO 9
• APOLLO 11
• APOLLO 12
• SPACE MISCELLANEOUS

1970s

• APOLLO 15
• APOLLO 16
• APOLLO 17
• APOLLO SPLASHDOWNS

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  1960s

  APOLLO 8 (7 PHOTOS)
  (1st human mission to Earth's Moon, flown 21-28 December 1968, by Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, and William A. Anders)
  1. TV-screen image of Moon's cratered surface taken out a Command Module window on Christmas Eve, Tuesday 24 December 1968. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
     
     
  2. TV-screen image of astronaut in Command Module, with consoles and cables. Apollo 8's mission patch is visible on an astronaut's white flight suit. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
     
     
  3. TV-screen image of an astronaut in Command Module near consoles. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  4. TV-screen image of astronaut seated in Command Module. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  5. TV-screen image (not very clear) taken out a Command Module window, labeled with graphic reading "VIEW OF EARTH FROM APOLLO 8." (Source unknown.)
  6. TV-screen image of Earth as seen from an outbound Apollo 8, approximately 324,000 kilometers away (175,000 nautical miles), televised live from a 2-kilogram (4-1/2-pound) RCA TV camera during an approximately 25-minute transmission. This aired during an NBC News special report anchored by Frank McGee from 1500-1530 EST on Monday 23 December 1968. (Photo Credit: NBC News.)
  7. TV-screen image of cratered Moon as seen from Apollo 8 Command Module window, Tuesday 24 December 1968. (Source unknown.)
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  APOLLO 9 (11 PHOTOS)
  (Earth orbital test flight of lunar module, mission flown 3-13 March 1969, by James A. McDivitt, Russell L. Schweickart, and David R. Scott)
  
  1. "MOCK-UP OF APOLLO IX HATCH": NBC News Correspondent Peter Hackes is shown with a full-scale mock-up of Apollo 9 safety hatch that was part of the NBC News studio mock-up. (From longer photo caption dated "1/31/69." (Photo Credit: NBC News.)
     
     
  2. "MOON SHIP MODEL": James W. ("Jim") Kitchell, executive producer of NBC News Apollo 9 color TV coverage, shown in front of full-scale mock-up of 8-meter-high (24-foot-high) Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), and holding a smaller scale model of the LEM in his hands. (From longer NBC News photo caption dated "1/31/69.") (Photo Credit: NBC News.)
  3. TV-screen image, with "LIVE TV PICTURES FROM APOLLO"' graphic appearing on a captioned photo showing Lunar Module Pilot Russell L. "Rusty" Schweickart, left, and Mission Commander James A. McDivitt, right, working inside the LEM "Spider"'s ascent-stage cabin. NBC News broadcast this first live TV transmission from the LEM "Spider" on Wednesday 5 March 1969. (Photo Credit: NBC News.)
  4. TV-screen image, with "LIVE FROM APOLLO 9" graphic superimposed on a shot showing one astronaut's sleeve-flag. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  5. TV-screen image, with "LIVE TV PICTRUERES FROM LM" graphic superimposed, showing one astronaut's face and sleeve-flag visible on the right. (Source unknown.)
  6. TV-screen image, with "LIVE TV PICTURES FROM LM" graphic, showing astronauts Russell L. Schweickart, left, and James A. McDivitt, right, both suited up and wearing their black-and-white communications "skullcaps" (but not their pressurized helmets). (Source unknown.)
  7. Scale model of LEM sits undeployed and still ensconced atop the Saturn V's rocket's "S-IV-B" third stage and Instrument Unit, with the Africa/Arabia side of an Earth globe visible in the background. (Source unknown.)
  8. Similar shot of LEM model as above, taken from different angle, showing a Moon globe and another LEM in the background. (Source unknown.)
  9. Full-scale mock-up of LEM in a big room. (Source unknown.)
  10. Another angle of a full-scale mock-up LEM in a big room. (Source unknown.)
  11. Model or mock-up of an Apollo Command-Service Module, call-signed "Gumdrop" on Apollo 9, with an Earth globe visible in the background. (Source unknown.)
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  APOLLO 11 (3 PHOTOS)
  (1st human landing on Earth's Moon, mission flown 16-24 July 1969 to Sea of Tranquility region, by Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins)
  1. TV-screen image, hand-captioned with "Armstrong puts boot down"; shows a ghostly-grainy Mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong descending from Lunar Module's lowest rung to one of its footpads, on Sunday 20 July 1969. (Photo Credit: ABC Television Network.)
     
     
  2. TV-screen image of Lunar Module "Eagle," with one astronaut close-in (either Armstrong or Lunar Module Pilot Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin) and a deployed USA flag near center and the other moon walking astronaut to the right, on Sunday 20 or Monday 21 July 1969. (Photo Credit: ABC Television Network.)
     
     
  3. Another copy of above photo. (Photo Credit: ABC Television Network.)
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  APOLLO 12 (14 PHOTOS)
  (2nd human landing on Earth's Moon, mission flown 14-24 November 1969 to the Ocean of Storms region, by Charles "Pete" Conrad, Alan L. Bean, and Richard F. Gordon)
  1. TV-screen image shows a sepia-toned view of "LUNAR CONTACT" button on Lunar Module, probably from a mock-up portion of the panel at CBS News in New York. Time clock reads 1:54 [0154 EST]; the date was Wednesday 19 November 1969. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
     
     
  2. TV-screen image shows a sepia-toned wide shot of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) full-scale mock-up inside a converted hangar at LEM-maker Grumman's facility in Bethpage, Long Island, NY, with CBS News graphic "INTREPID HAS LANDED" superimposed. Time clock reads 1:56 [0156 EST]. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
     
     
  3. TV-screen image shows a sepia-toned shot of Charles "Pete" Conrad's pressure-suited leg as he descends the LEM ladder for the first of two lunar EVAs, with CBS News graphic superimposed reading "LIVE FROM THE SURFACE OF THE MOON." Time clock reads 6:43 [0643 EST]; the date was Wednesday 19 November 1969. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  4. TV-screen image shows a sepia-toned shot of Charles "Pete" Conrad as he nears the bottom of LEM Intrepid's ladder to start first EVA. Time clock reads 6:44 [0644 EST].
  5. TV-screen image shows a sepia-toned shot of Charles "Pete" Conrad, with CBS News graphic "CONRAD ON THE MOON." Time clock reads 6:44 [0644 EST]; the date was Wednesday 19 November 1969. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  6. TV-screen image shows a sepia-toned shot of two "astronauts" at a Grumman hangar in Bethpage, Long Island, NY, near a leg of the LEM mock-up on an artificial lunar landscape. Astronaut Alan L. Bean had inadvertently pointed color TV camera at the Sun, ruining the lens and ending TV transmissions about 40 minutes into the first EVA. Graphic clearly emphasizes this is a "CBS NEWS SIMULATION." Time clock reads 8:11 [0811 EST]; the date was Wednesday 19 November 1969. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  7. TV-screen image shows a sepia-toned shot of two "astronauts" at Grumman hangar in Bethpage, Long Island, NY, setting up an experiment. Graphic reads "CBS NEWS SIMULATION." Time clock reads 8:26 [0826 EST]; the date was Wednesday 19 November 1969. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  8. TV-screen image shows a sepia-toned shot of two "astronauts" at Grumman hangar in Bethpage, Long Island, NY. Graphic on simulation reads "LIVE VOICES OF APOLLO 12 CREW." Time clock reads 8:29 [0829 EST]; the date was Wednesday 19 November 1969. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  9. TV-screen image shows a sepia-toned shot of two "astronauts" at Grumman hangar in Bethpage, Long Island, NY, with an experiment. Graphic reads "CBS NEWS SIMULATION." Clock reads 8:34 [0834 EST]; the date was Wednesday 19 November 1969. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
     
     
  10. TV-screen image shows a sepia-toned shot of two "astronauts" at Grumman hangar in Bethpage, Long Island, NY, finishing setting up experiments during the second of two lunar EVAs, with LEM mock-up partly visible to the far left. Graphic reads "CBS NEWS SIMULATION." Clock reads 3:07 [0307 EST]; the date was Thursday 20 November 1969. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
      
      
  11. TV-screen image, taken during ABC News Apollo 12 coverage (titled "The Second Step"), showing astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad stepping from a LEM footpad to the Moon's surface. (Photo Credit: ABC News.)
  12. TV-screen image shows a better, clearer view of astronaut and ladder. (Photo Credit: ABC News.)
  13. TV-screen image shows astronaut Alan Bean becoming the fourth human to set foot on the Moon, on Wednesday 19 November 1969. Note that this image was seen upside down. (Photo Credit: ABC News.)
  14. Medium shot of a scientist or technician with an RCA camera in a lab. Apparently used with "RCA camera story" in Broadcasting magazine. Marked "Apollo 12" in red ink on back circa June 1970. (Source unknown.)
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  SPACE MISCELLANEOUS (1 PHOTO)
  • TV-screen image with "LIVE PICTURES FROM SPACE" wording superimposed on shot of Earth clouds and oceans, taken possibly from orbiting Apollo 9 in March 1969. (Source unknown.)
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  1970s

  APOLLO 15 (2 PHOTOS)
  (4th human landing on Earth's Moon, mission flown 26 July-7 August 1971 to Hadley-Apennine region, by David R. Scott, James B. Irwin, and Alfred M. Worden)
  1. TV-screen image is captioned as "Rille Drill and Lunar Sampling," during EVA 3 on Monday 2 August 1971. It shows either astronaut David R. Scott, mission commander, or James B. Irwin, Lunar Module pilot. (Photo Credit: CBS News via Wide World Photos [AP].)
     
     
  2. A schematic diagram depicts how voice, data, and TV signals get from moonwalking astronauts and their Lunar Roving Vehicle back to Earth. (Artwork Credit: RCA illustration)
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  APOLLO 16 (1 PHOTO)
  (5th human landing on Earth's Moon, mission flown 16-27 April 1972 to Descartes region, by John W. Young, Charles Duke, and Thomas K. Mattingly)
  • TV-screen image of either astronaut John W. Young or Charles M. Duke exerting himself using a lunar drill at Descartes landing site. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
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  APOLLO 17 (8 PHOTOS)
  (6th-and, so far, last-human landing on Earth's Moon, flown 7-19 December 1972 to Taurus-Littrow region, by Eugene A. Cernan, Harrison H. "Jack" Schmidt, and Ronald Evans)
  1. TV-screen image of astronaut and mission commander Eugene A. Cernan headlined: "CERNAN WORKING NEAR LUNAR MODULE," taken during one of three lunar EVAs. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
     
     
  2. TV-screen image of astronaut and mission commander Eugene A. Cernan captioned, "CERNAN IN FOREGROUND WITH PROBE"; various experiments and equipment can be seen around both Cernan and Lunar Module pilot and geologist Harrison H. "Jack" Schmidt. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
     
     
  3. TV-screen image of ascent stage of Apollo 17's Lunar Module "Challenger" lifting off the Moon from the Taurus-Littrow highlands on Thursday 14 December 1972, leaving the LEM's descent stage, scientific experiments, and excess equipment behind. Hilly terrain is visible in the background. The lunar liftoff was televised live and in color, as were the ones on Apollo 15 and 16. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  4. TV-screen image of Command Module pilot Ronald Evans conducting a trans-Earth-coast deep-space EVA, outside the Command-Service Module "America," on Sunday 17 December 1972. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  5. TV-screen image of Ronald Evans, Eugene A. Cernan, and Harrison H. "Jack" Schmidt all smiling inside the Command Module "America" during a TV transmission to Earth in December 1972. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  6. TV-screen image of Command Module "America," slowed by its main three parachutes, descends toward Pacific Ocean splashdown on Tuesday 19 December 1972. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  7. TV-screen image of shot taken from recovery helicopter, with recovery ship aircraft carrier U.S.S. Ticonderoga in background, with recovery chopper in foreground hovering near Command Module "America," which has splashed down in Pacific Ocean. The floatation ring, three balloons, and raft are in place around "America." (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  8. TV-screen image of astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, who is waving, Ronald Evans, and Harrison H. "Jack" Schmidt alight from a recovery helicopter onto the flight deck of the recovery ship U.S.S. Ticonderoga amid the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday 19 December 1972. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
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  APOLLO SPLASHDOWNS (8 PHOTOS)
  (Exact flights shown unknown. Some photos possibly of Apollo 13, which flew 11-17 April 1970, by James A. Lovell. Fred W. Haise, and John L. "Jack" Swigert; its lunar landing in the Fra Mauro region was aborted by an in-flight explosion, and later accomplished by Apollo 14 in 1971; actor and space enthusiast Tom Hanks starred in a 1995 film directed by actor-director Ron Howard, based on the 1994 Jim Lovell-Jeffrey Kluger book "Lost Moon," which told the Apollo 13 story)
  1. TV-screen sepia-toned close-up of Apollo command module capsule with a floatation ring and balloons and frogmen with raft, evidently shot from a hovering recovery helicopter. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  2. TV-screen image of medium-distant picture of Apollo capsule shortly after splashdown, evidently shot from a hovering recovery helicopter.(Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  3. TV-screen tight close-up of Apollo capsule with floatation ring and balloons. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
     
     
  4. TV-screen close-up of Apollo capsule with floatation ring and balloons, with frogmen and inflated raft; hatch appears to be open. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
     
     
  5. TV-screen image of astronaut stepping onto flight deck of recovery ship (a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier); men nearby wear protective masks (so it is NOT Apollo 11, 12, or 14, when astronauts wore bulky Biological Isolation Garment [BIG] suits). (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  6. TV-screen image of three astronauts sitting on flight deck of recovery ship (a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier), with two face-masked men nearby.(Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  7. TV-screen image of Apollo capsule being hoisted onto recovery ship's flight deck, with chopper hovering in the background. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  8. TV-screen image of masked technician processes Apollo capsule aboard recovery ship (a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier). (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
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