Image: NASA, Nikon D5. 14-24mm at 24mm.

For the first time in half a century, humans visited the moon . If they did not land on it, that's coming soon, but they took a lot of photographs on the most epic sightseeing tour ever. The entire set is now to be found on the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth website, an old-timey database which doesn't provide links to listings/categories, but does for individual images .

The crew took a Nikon D5, a Nikon Z9 and an iPhone 17 each, and used all prolifically; 12,000 shots were taken on the voyage, writes Matt Growcoot at Petapixel.…