NASA/FlickrWow, someone is sure going to a lot of trouble to make us believe the moon landing was real! These images are so crisp and clear that we can no longer point at blurry images and yell out "See! Right there! You can totally see the wires!"
All moon landing jokes aside (to be clear, those are the only kinds of jokes we have regarding the moon landing), these new, high-resolution NASA photos just released are truly spectacular.
Over 8,000 images were uploaded to a Flickr account for the Project Apollo Archive, which was created in 1999 by Kipp Teague. The new pictures are high-res and unprocessed versions of the original NASA photo scans, so now we can see the Apollo missions, including the one that got us on the moon for the first time, like never before.
Teague describes the history of Project Apollo on Flickr and makes sure to include that this was not a NASA project, but an undertaking all his own:
"A subsequent collaboration between the Archive and Eric Jones' Apollo Lunar Surface Journal led to acquisition over the years of countless historic Apollo and other space history images generously provided by NASA and others for processing and hosting on the NASA-hosted Journal as well as on my site. Contrary to some recent media reports, this new Flickr gallery is not a NASA undertaking, but an independent one, involving the re-presentation of the public domain NASA-provided Apollo mission imagery as it was originally provided in its raw, high-resolution and unprocessed form by the Johnson Space Center on DVD-R and including from the center's Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth web site."
You can see every single breathtaking photo on the Project Apollo Archive flickr account or on the Facebook page. Trust us, it's worth a click through.