Lunar Orbiter 1: America’s First Lunar Satellite

With the historic landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon, the summer of 1969 was quite memorable for me as a budding seven-year-old space enthusiast. And among my arsenal of reference material for that e… With the historic landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon, the summer of 1969 was quite memorable for me as a budding seven-year-old space enthusiast. And among my arsenal of reference material for that event, I had a map of the Moon prepared by the National Geographic Society which had been released earlier in February 1969. While I had seen maps of the near side of the Moon for use by amateur astronomers at that stage and had seen a smattering of images of the lunar farside in books and magazines, this National Geographic map of the Moon was the first time I got to see the entire lunar surface rendered in one cartographic product.

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