⁠Happy #InternationalMoonDay! 🌔⁠ #DYK Northern Arizona played a key role in the first successful manned missions to the Moon?⁠ ⁠ ⛰ Northern Arizona had a combination of scientific expertise and rugged terrain needed to help prepare astronauts for their missions.⁠ ⁠ 👨🏼‍🚀 Astronauts ran lunar rover simulations while wearing replica space suits in the shadows of the San Francisco Peaks.⁠ ⁠ 1️⃣ (📸: viz_pic_annemarie_comes)⁠ 2️⃣ Astronauts with lunar rover simulator at Cinder Lake Crater Field, 1968. (📸: USGS)⁠ 3️⃣ Apollo 15 astronauts using "Grover" (a model of the lunar vehicle used on the moon) in a training exercise at the Cinder Lake Crater Field (📸: NAUClineLibrary)⁠ 4️⃣ Lectures to a group of astronauts at Meteor Crater, Arizona (📸: NAUClineLibrary)⁠ 5️⃣ USGS geologist in space suit conducting a simulated lunar surface mission at the Cinder Lake Crater (📸: NAUClineLibrary)⁠ 6️⃣ Astronauts preparing for the Apollo 14 mission at a man-made crater field near Cottonwood, Arizona...