A wall map of the Moon in preparation for the Lunar Landing

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE.

USAF Lunar Wall Mosaic. LEM-1.
Washington, D.C.: Superintendent of Documents US Government Printing Office, 1962. Lithograph. Sheet 850 x 880mm.

Tears in top margin repaired, laid on archival canvas,

A detailed map of the moon using an orthographic projection (i.e., as a sphere viewed from an infinite distance), compiled from hundreds of photographs, created during NASA's planning of the first Lunar Landing, that of Apollo 11 in 1969.
The first 'USAF Lunar Reference Mosaic' was published in 1960 in two scales, 1:10 million & 1: 5 million, but recompiled with improved photographic imagery in 1962, and issued in scales of 1:10M, 1:5M (as this example) and 1:2.5M.
It was the USAF rather than NASA that produced the map because the project started before NASA was created in 1958.


Stock ID : 23376