Currie was a principal investigator on the team that created the retroreflectors deployed during the Apollo 11 mission. Currie said NASA's objective was for the experiment to only last for five years.

Find the locations of the five landing zones considered as the setting for humanity's first steps on another world.

About This Lot This is a rare image of Earth taken by the Apollo 11 crew during the Apollo 11 trans-lunar coast. Images like the present lot became iconic symbols of the fragility of our planet.

John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, hailed from New Concord on the opposite side of the state, some 150 miles (240 kilometers) away. The John and Annie Glenn Museum will be open there ...

Apollo 11 View of the Earth Post Translunar Injection (the maneuver that boosted the spacecraft out of Earth's orbit on its wait to the Moon), 1969 Vintage chromogenic print (c-print) 13.75 x 10.75 in ...

In May 1969, just two months before Apollo 11, Apollo 10 flew to lunar orbit in a test run of the systems used in the successful lunar landing. The Apollo 11 crew returned to Earth on July 24, 1969.

As Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins flew on Apollo 11 to a lunar landing in July 1969, the world heard communications between the crew and Mission Control live as they happened.