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Awe: Unreleased photos of the Apollo moon missions, 50 years later

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In one of them we see Neil Armstrong moments before his first step into space in 1969, and it even looks like there’s a tear in his eye

It’s humanity’s biggest…step like we’ve never seen it before, through restored images from its archive NASA.

These are unreleased photographs from the US Apollo mission to the moon, which author Andy Saunders hosts in his new book.

These rare images are copies of the original photographs held at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and have been described as the “ultimate photographic record of mankind’s greatest adventure”.

In one of them we see him neil armstrong, moments before his first step into space in 1969, revealing the emotion on the astronaut’s face. It looks like there is a tear in his eye

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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin takes the first selfie in space in 1966 during the Gemini XII mission. In fact, the sun seems to be reflected in his helmet.

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The astronaut Charles Duke he leaves a photo of his family on the surface of the Moon, with his footprint clearly visible right next to it. On the back of the photo he wrote: “This is Astronaut Duke’s family from planet Earth. Landed on the Moon, April 1972.’

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David Scott

THE David Scott shown in the Apollo 9 hatch in 1969, in a photo taken by Rusty Schweikart, restored by Sanders

Mcdivit

Apollo 9, March 7, 1969: O James McDivitt lands the spacecraft – “an almost impossible task,” according to Russell Schweikart who took the photo.

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