Retro photos of NASA from the history of space exploration

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The launch of the Apollo 16 spacecraft, April 1972

Walter Cunningham, Apollo 7, October 1968

Edward White, the first American spacemen escape to outer space, James McDivitt, Gemini-4, June 3, 1965

Eugene Cernan, Gemini-9, June 1966

Harrison Schmitt, Portrait of Cosmonaut Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17, December 1972

Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt with the American flag, Apollo 17, December 1972

Edgar Mitchell, Alan Shepard and the American flag, Apollo 14, February 1971

William Anders, the first "sunrise of the Earth" seen by human eyes, Apollo 8, December 1968

The first high-quality photograph of the opposite side of the moon

The Earth, July 11, 1969

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