A few days ago Jared Kinsler compiled an excellent selection of the photos of the Apollo missions, which you should check out here:

I clicked through and had a look at the entire archive, and as it turns out, the Apollo astronauts had the same approach to photography that I do; that being: Take as many photos as possible and hopefully one will be good.

As a result, a lot of those 14,277 photos have been taken in bursts, which means once you’ve painstakingly arranged them into their correct sequence, (combined with some photoshop know-how) you can turn this…

Images via Project Apollo Archive

into THIS!

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This is Apollo 7; apparently they were practising a simulated Lunar Module rendezvous and docking with the S-IVB (which is the 3rd stage of the Saturn V).

Anyway, here below is Apollo 9 blasting off somewhere…

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…and here’s Apollo 9 again, with Rusty Schweickart standing on the outside, because why not.

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This is an ‘Earth Rise’ photo taken by Apollo 10, on their way around the moon. (although not the original ‘Earth Rise’)

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I assume whoever took the next one was trying to make a panorama, so stitching those together almost gets you a little Google street view of the moon. This one is from the Apollo 17 mission (you can briefly see the moon buggy there)

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Oh and if you’re wondering what the combined panoramic photo might look like, I got that covered for you too..