# @nauflagstaff on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu70selNA8Q
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13223096-nauflagstaff-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-07-20T21:45:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Northern Arizona University (@nauflagstaff) — https://gondola.cc/nauflagstaff

## Caption

⁠Happy #InternationalMoonDay! 🌔⁠
#DYK Northern Arizona played a key role in the first successful manned missions to the Moon?⁠
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⛰ Northern Arizona had a combination of scientific expertise and rugged terrain needed to help prepare astronauts for their missions.⁠
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👨🏼‍🚀 Astronauts ran lunar rover simulations while wearing replica space suits in the shadows of the San Francisco Peaks.⁠
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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 (📸: @NAUClineLibrary)⁠
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#MoonDay #Moon #Lunar #LunarMissions #LunarMission #Apollo15 #Apollo14 #MoonMissions #USGS #NASA #Astronaut #AstronautTraining #SpaceRace #Space #Science #Flagstaff #Arizona #NAU #NorthernArizonaUniversity #NAUFlagstaff #NorthernArizona #NorthernArizonaHistory #ArizonaHistory #SpaceHistory

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