How NASA’s Lunar Pictures Introduced the Heavens All the way down to Earth

Produced by Nick Donofrio, Gabriel Gianordoli, Maridelis Morales Rosado, Andrew Sondern and Rebecca Thomas.

Images: Pan Plates AS12-47-6982 to 7006 (assembled) by way of NASA; Pan Plates AS12-46-6836 to 6844 (assembled) by way of NASA; AS11-40-5912 by way of NASA; AS11-40-5877 by way of NASA; S62-06021 by way of NASA; Lovell and Haise by way of NASA; AS11-40-5850 by way of NASA; AS11-40-5903 by way of NASA; “Illustrated Astronomical Treatise,” by way of Khalili Collections; “Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger),” by way of DeAgostini/Getty Images; “​​Astronomical Observations: the Moon,” by way of Vatican Museums; “Lunar Daguerreotype,” by way of NYU Special Collections; “The Moon, New York, January 8, 1865,” by way of Princeton University Art Museum and Museum buy, bequest of John W. H. Simpson, Class of 1966; “Full Moon. From Negatives Taken by Prof. H. Draper, With His Silvered Glass Telescope,” by way of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; “Group of Lunar Mountains, 1885,” by way of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; AS11-44-6551 by way of NASA; AS12-46-6716 by way of NASA; AS12-49-7242 by way of NASA; Pan Plates AS12-47- 6982 to 7006 by way of NASA; AS12-49-7278 by way of NASA; AS11-40-5880 by way of NASA; “Le Voyage Dans la Lune,” by Georges Méliès; “Woman in the Moon,” by way of U.F.A/Alamy; “Untitled (Moon Image),” by way of Vija Celmins and Matthew Marks Gallery; “Le Voyage Dans la Lune,” by way of Gallica Digital Library; “The Starry Night,” by way of Museum of Modern Art; AS12-50-7371 by way of NASA; AS16-117-18841 by way of NASA; AS12-49-7207 by way of NASA.