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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Unseen Apollo: Going To The Moon Through Astronaut's Eyes [Watch (HLS stream): Unseen Apollo: Going To The Moon Through Astronaut's Eyes](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/c43u4clG.m3u8) (3:13)  _Published 2017-03-30. Nobody ever accused the Apollo program of failing to deliver the goods. There were the 842 pounds of moon rocks and the raft of scientific spinoffs and the deep thrills that every one of the 11 missions delivered. And then, there were the pictures._ --- Jul 27, 2023 9:42 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Apollo Astronaut Jim Lovell](/video/gAJV00Bt/) ### Apollo Astronaut Jim Lovell [How Apollo 11 Got to the Moon](/video/PkL4DeYm/) ### How Apollo 11 Got to the Moon [Apollo 8: First Broadcast From the Moon](/video/RiD6Udbd/) ### Apollo 8: First Broadcast From the Moon --- ## Transcript [ INAUDIBLE ] Lift off. The Apollo Lunar missions were as much exercises in photographic reconnaissance as they were in exploration. [ MUSIC ] NASA was very good at selecting and curating the pictures they would release. What's left behind With the the thousands of outtakes, the rough shots. It was these things though, these unplanned images that captured the Apollo moon missions as the improvisational camping trips that they were. [ MUSIC ] Apollo 7 was the first test of the Apollo command service module in lower the orbit. No astronauts were going to get anywhere near the moon if the third stage of the [ UNKNOWN ] rocket didn't last the [ UNKNOWN ] of the orbit, and if the [ UNKNOWN ] couldn't turn around Open the pedals of a compartment on that third stage and extract the Lunar Module. This maneuver was practiced on Apollo 7, producing this picture of the third stage, and its open LEM compartment with no LEM aboard. The Lunar Module was usually a bright and busy place, but not on Apollo 13. When the crew had to take refuge inside and shutdown most of their power using the lamb as a lifeboat to make their way back to Earth. Here is a rare shot of what it looked like inside that cold, dark module. [ MUSIC ] On the last three Apollo missions, Apollo 15, 16, and 17. The astronauts carried with them an offroad vehicle known as the Lunar Rover. Here, Apollo 16's John Young leans almost jauntily against his ride. With the overexposed top half of the image, creating the overall effect of a casual vacation shot, snapped during an offroad trip In the desert Southwest. No limb could land at an incline greater than 15 degrees lest it become impossible to take off again. Apollo 15 pushed that rule touching down at a 10 degree incline. NASA was perfectly happy to release photographs of the Apollo 15 LEM, shot from in front. But profile shots were kept out of circulation. Rovers worked hard, and sometimes they broke down. After the first of three lunar expeditions, the fender on the right rear wheel of Apollo 17's lunar rover Broke off. This was a problem because fine lunar dust kicked up by the tires could foul machinery and potentially even the astronaut's life support equipment. The solution? Four lunar maps folded just so and fastened with what Commander Gene Cernan called good old fashion American [ UNKNOWN ] [ INAUDIBLE ] [ MUSIC ] ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Unseen Apollo: Going To The Moon Through Astronaut's Eyes","description":"Nobody ever accused the Apollo program of failing to deliver the goods. There were the 842 pounds of moon rocks and the raft of scientific spinoffs and the deep thrills that every one of the 11 missions delivered. 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