---
title: "Project Apollo, From Launchpad to the Moon in 3 Minutes"
description: "NASA's lunar mission archives are open, and creative types are making the most of them."
date: "2015-10-27"
modified: "2015-10-27"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/652/project-apollo-from-launchpad-to-the-moon-in-3-minutes"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "History"
  - "News"
tags:
  - "space"
---

# Project Apollo, From Launchpad to the Moon in 3 Minutes

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It’s been like landing on the Moon all over again. Earlier this month, Kipp Teague, custodian of NASA’s Project Apollo Archive, released some 8,400 photos on Flickr. High-resolution shots from the lunar missions, meticulously curated and free to use. It feels like a stream-of-consciousness photo essay on progress; planetary wonder via Hasselblad. The aesthetic is perfect. If this doesn’t stroke your sense of awe, at man and space and incredible things we can accomplish, check your pulse.

![apollovideo\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/apollovideo_art.jpg>)
**Apollo Archives/Flickr**

So people have been creating. Remixing and cutting together [short films](<https://vimeo.com/141812811>). Compilations and mashups, set to effects with professional-grade production quality. Pieces like this beautiful, stop-motion-style clip by Harrison Icus. Hundreds of still shots, stitched together and synchronized to music, a space story told in under [three minutes](<https://vimeo.com/141812811>).

[Watch it here](<https://vimeo.com/141812811>).

In 1965, at the conclusion of the first American spacewalk, Lt. Col. Ed White said, “I’m coming back in… and it’s the saddest moment of my life.” Now we understand why.

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