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Apollo-Era Photos Now Up at NASA's Flickr Account, In High-Res

Posted by timothy on from the fruits-of-operation-paperclip dept.

Boing Boing reports that NASA has uploaded to its Flickr account 8400 photographs from the agency's Apollo days -- "just about every image captured by Apollo astronauts on lunar missions." The astronauts were shooting with some very nice cameras, and the results are worth seeing at 1800dpi.

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  1. Actual proper Silly question but.... by camperdave · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actual proper Silly question but.... The moon landing was 45 years ago. Why are these only being released now?

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    1. Re:Actual proper Silly question but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      No, the proper question is why are they using fickr? who the fuck uses flickr?