The orbiter is producing high-resolution maps ... in time for the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11. An intense contest is under way among several groups vying for the $30 million Google Lunar X ...

Apollo 11 landed the first humans on the moon. The impacts of the Ranger probes left visible craters on the lunar surface, later photographed by orbiting spacecraft. Lunar Orbiter 2 and Apollo 16 ...

As the Apollo program closed in on its goal, cartographers relied on photos from 1966 and 1967 orbiter missions to create ... story “50 years after Apollo 11, a new moon race is on.” ...

Keywords Apollo program, Spring 1967, manned space flight, spacecraft modifications, astronaut crew, safety improvements, unmanned missions, Saturn 5, lunar exploration, Lunar Orbiter 4 ...