APOLLO OVER THE MOON: A View From Orbit

Man has always wondered and dreamed about the landscape of the distant and intriguing Moon. The first step in deciphering surface details of Earth's only satellite was initiated when Galileo trained his crude telescope toward our closest neighbor in the sky. A greater step came with the advent of the space age when automated spacecraft telemetered their intelligence to Earth. Yet a longer step was taken by Apollo, when photographic equipment captured the Moon's surface in intimate detail and gre…