NASA Launch Searchable Image Library (Geek pron)

[XM5ER]

https://images.nasa.gov/#/

Go on, waste some time there, you know you want to.

[Eric Mc]

Been looking at that section of the NASA site for at least ten years now

Do you know that every single photograph taken by every Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronaut is now on the NASA website. This includes even the duff ones.

[XM5ER]

I thought it had been around for a while as well, thy just seem to be selling it a more searchable now. Maybe they are just trying a bit of the Trump style "sell 'em something they already have" approach.

How duff is duff?

[Eric Mc]

Usually "not properly in frame". When using the Hasselblads on the moon, they were taking pictures without the use of a view finder. They more or less pointed the camera in the general direction of what they wanted to take and clicked away. They had the cameras set on wide angle and focused on infinity so all the pictures were sharp - but they sometimes were not quite centered the way they intended.

The one shot taken by Aldrin that includes Armstrong was because of this -