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The Lunar Orbiter Project: Mapping the Moon

Published: Sept. 9, 2019, 12:28 p.m.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, retired Eastman Kodak electronics engineer and scientist Arthur Cosgrove will discuss his involvement with the Lunar Orbiter Project in 1966 and 1967. That project paved the way for the success of the Apollo 11 mission through mapping the lunar surface. First view of Earth taken from Lunar Orbiter 1 from a near orbit of the moon, August 23, 1966 (Image: NASA)