As the Apollo program closed in on its goal, cartographers relied on photos from 1966 and 1967 orbiter missions to create the February 1969 hand-­painted map—considered the best reference at ...

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham orbited the earth for ten days in an Apollo command ...

Apollo missions never flew during a full moon ... The solution: four lunar maps folded just so and fastened with what Cernan called “good old-fashioned American gray tape.” ...