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Anders had black and white film loaded. He called for colour, and Lovell found a roll before the Earth cleared the horizon.

The second man is the reflection. Armstrong is the white shape in the gold visor, standing where you are standing.

Paul Scowen laid the separate frames out on a table, saw what they made, and telephoned Jeff Hester to come at once.

‘We can see how the Sun progresses across the Earth up there every time we get an Earthrise,’ Tom Stafford said in lunar orbit.

Fifty seven years after Apollo 8 photographed Earth coming up over the Moon, a crew photographed it going down.

As John Young turned with the camera, Charlie Duke told him, ‘John, you are just beautiful.’ Houston said it had never heard John described that way.

No line, no arm, no handhold. He flew out 320 feet from the shuttle and flew back.

One of the instruments standing near the Lunar Module is a telescope, the only observatory ever operated from the surface of the Moon.

Earth is the single point of light inside the beam, less than one pixel across. Thirty four minutes after the last of these frames, the cameras were switched off for good.

The white across the bottom of the disc is the south polar ice cap. No Apollo crew before this one was on a path that let them photograph it.

Cassini sat in Saturn's shadow for four hours. Earth is the blue point out to the right of the rings.

From low orbit the Moon looks almost flat. Here it curves away, because the crew were leaving it behind.

In the year 1054 Chinese astronomers wrote down a new star bright enough to see by day. This is what is left of it.

A single boot pressed into the Sea of Tranquility on 20 July 1969, about an inch deep and still there.

The rover was kept awake past its usual shutdown so that it could make this one.

An hour and a half out from Earth orbit, most of North America fits in a single frame, from the Great Lakes down to Central America.

The gun in his hand fired compressed oxygen to steer him. It ran dry after about three of those minutes.

The flag went up on black and white film. At the start of the next moonwalk, Irwin remembered they had no colour photographs of each other.

The photograph was meant to record how they had left the antenna. Cernan admitted he tidied his line afterwards.

NASA's catalogue names no crater in this frame. It gives it three words: lunar far side.

About 60 metres from Eagle, with roughly a minute to spare for photographs, Armstrong caught his own shadow in the frame.

‘Shoot. I thought I was going to get to drive,’ said Harrison Schmitt, as Gene Cernan climbed onto the rover for its first test.

‘This boulder's got its own little track,’ Schmitt said. It had come down the mountain and left a trail on the slope.

Scott's suit was plugged into Gumdrop by umbilicals. Schweickart's, out on the lander, carried its own air.

During this panorama John Young moved the antenna, and Houston lost its picture. ‘I'm halfway through a pan here,’ Charlie Duke said.

Scott is standing in the command module hatch, in vacuum. The man photographing him is outside as well, on the porch of the lunar module, with his own hatch open behind him.

Apollo 17 came home in December 1972. It was more than fifty years before a crew saw the Moon from this distance again.

The first drive was over. Scott stood in the shade of the lunar module and photographed Irwin at the back of the Rover.