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ZEISSMoonLandingPromotion Source:
NASA

Left: Apollo 9
Command Module
Pilot Dave Scott
emerges from the
hatch, testing some
of the spacesuit
systems that will
be used for lunar
operations. The
photo was taken
from the hatch of
the docked Lunar
Module by Rusty
Schweickart in
March 1969

ALL IMAGES © COURTESY OF NASA


T


he launch of the Sputnik 1
satellite by the Soviet
Union in October 1957
jolted the US Federal
Government into action, and the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) was formed
on 29 July 1958... the ‘Space Race’
had truly begun. NASA absorbed
and succeeded the 43-year-old
National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics (NACA) and officially
began operations on 1 October 1958.
NASA’s remit was clearly set out in
the National Aeronautics and Space
Act of 1958, which stated, ‘The
Congress hereby declares that it is
the policy of the United States that

NASA’s early years culminated in the historic


Apollo 11 mission in 1969. Steve Fairclough


spoke to science author Piers Bizony


to discover the role of photography in


documenting these pioneering missions


Shooting


for the


moon


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