50 Photos from the Apollo Missions

Here's a gallery of 50 photos from the Apollo missions. It all started with John F. Kennedy's promise to put man on the moon. We were off to a rocky start, and it gained very little attention with our concerns elsewhere. But between 1961 and 1975, NASA’s Apollo missions would change the world. Competition would drive America’s innovation to extremes, the likeness of which I’m not sure we can say we’ve seen since.