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Project Gemini was the precursor to the famous Apollo program. The main goal of Project Gemini was to support the Apollo program’s main mission: Putting a man on the moon. Developing orbital maneuvers to dock with another orbiting spacecraft, demonstrating mission endurance for crewed flight as the ...

Our July Map of the Month is this 1967 Soviet lunar map from the series titled Polnaya Karta Luny Complete Map of the Moon. The series is made up of nine sheets that display several magnified lunar quadrant maps, translations of the labels throughout the series, and this final composite lunar pole m...