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NASA releases thousands of Apollo mission photos on Flickr

By Shawn Price
NASA released over 8,000 images from the Apollo missions. Essentially every photo taken by the Apollo astronauts -- including this one taken during Apollo 17 -- is now available on Flickr. Photo by NASA
1 of 4 | NASA released over 8,000 images from the Apollo missions. Essentially every photo taken by the Apollo astronauts -- including this one taken during Apollo 17 -- is now available on Flickr. Photo by NASA

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- More than 8,400 high-resolution images of the Apollo missions have been released to the public on Flickr, a historian announced.

Kipp Teague, creator of the Project Apollo Archive, recently uploaded new and unprocessed images of the original NASA scans of the 35mm photos taken by the astronauts.

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The images include many already famous ones, but most are random shots taken in Earth orbit, between the Earth and moon or on the lunar surface. Every photograph taken by the Apollo astronauts is now included in the repository, Teague said.

Beginning with Apollo 8, the astronauts wore a modified Hasselblad camera strapped to their chests, allowing them to do in the 1960s space race what many people now do with GoPro cameras.

Teague has been building the photo repository since he started it in 1999.

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Apollo 9 Hasselblad image from film magazine 20/E - Earth orbit, EVA. Photo courtesy of NASA
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