40 years ago today, they took this image!

[Ricardodaforce]

It's the first scientist astronaut, Jack Schmitt exploring Shorty crater. Great image!

 

[Wail]

Now that's a landscape I'd love to shoot

Amazing how time flies, how technology has made the world a smaller place, how we've grown old.

I hope they make more landing there.

 

[gazfy]

As said, amazing how time flies!

It really is a wonderful picture.

 

[Dark Knight]

Amazing what you can fit in a hanger and how good Photoshop was even 40 years ago

(Just one for the conspiracy lovers )

 

[jon ryan]

Umm, you may find that Apollo 17 flew in December 1972...

 

[Ricardodaforce]

Umm, you may find that Apollo 17 flew in December 1972...

Apologies you're right. It just happens to be today's APOD. Dunno why.

Nevertheless, great image!

 

[jon ryan]

You got that bit right!

 

[simonblue]

It's a fake,some guy who live alone in a mobile home in the Arizona desert,told me so

 

[jon ryan]

It's a fake,some guy who live alone in a mobile home in the Arizona desert,told me so

Well, my first though was that it was of someone who'd broken down near Birmingham.

 

[Iffacus]

Well, my first though was that it was of someone who'd broken down near Birmingham.

nah, wheels still on

 

[weybourne]

Are they watching Sky1?

 

[Kaolin]

Fantastic picture and very strange to think it is currently not possible to go and take another. Progress?

 

[Ricardodaforce]

Fantastic picture and very strange to think it is currently not possible to go and take another. Progress?

They couldn't even build a Saturn V if they wanted to. They lost the blueprints.

 

[-UKB-]

They couldn't even build a Saturn V if they wanted to. They lost the blueprints.

Surely they must be on wikileaks?

 

[Rankbadyin]

Bad Sky there, no clouds.

 

[mortimerhill]

nah, wheels still on

He said Birmingham, not Liverpool

 

[Tori_T]

They couldn't even build a Saturn V if they wanted to. They lost the blueprints.

After they've put a taikonaut on the moon, maybe the Chinese will return them.

 

[Stumpy]

Wonder if they shot in Raw or jpeg.........oh yea FILM. (Processing was a dam sight more reliable than we used to get. No scratches on their filum was there)!

 

[weybourne]

After they've put a taikonaut on the moon, maybe the Chinese will return them.

Ooooh! You pull no punches

Do you think the 航天员 will take a Seagull TLR with them?

 

[Pegasus2]

They couldn't even build a Saturn V if they wanted to. They lost the blueprints.

The blueprints for the S5 were destroyed in a deal with the Russians over somthing I think.

Great picture.

 

[RjLPhotography]

The most expensive photographs ever to be taken?

Nice use of color in the landscape given a lot of the original NASA pics can give the misperception of the Lunar Surface being solely B&W due to contrast and processing. This kind of image shows how the moon is not too dissimilar to that of Icelandic landscapes. Only with less of the green and cloud.

 

[jon ryan]

Those moon shots really are wonderful. The shot of Armstrong is top of my list of most significant photos ever taken in the history of history.

Well, this one as well, I suppose.

 

[nikoneal]

Three went up, one stayed in the warm, two went down .......... and the assistant.

 

[Frey]

Amazing to think that they went up there with less technology than we have on some mobile phones. Wonderful human feat.

 

[ChrisGilbert]

Now that's a landscape I'd love to shoot

Nah ! No atmosphere...

 

[WilliamC]

Apollo was an incredible experience to live through as a kid, nothing since has come even close. A lot of us kiddies wrote to NASA asking for copies of the photographs and they just sent them, A4 size and free. I wish I still had them but I'll never forget the excitement of getting a huge envelope addressed to little me and postmarked NASA!

 

[odd jim]

Thats an incredible, awe inspiring image!

One of the worlds most incredible photographs.