Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

Apollo 11’s Eagle lunar lander touched down near the center of this model and its remaining descent stage can be seen and felt as a bump.
Credit: Jacob Richardson/NASA GSFC

3D print-ready models for every Apollo landing spot have been created for education outreach, data visualization, and scientific research.

Apollo 11 landing site.
Credit: NASA

Jacob Richardson, a planetary volcanologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has created the models.

Elevated fun

“I primarily print elevation models that show the real shape of a region of a planet or moon using real topographic data acquired from space or with laser mapping surveys that I’ve been a part of,” Richardson explains. “I’ve put models for every Apollo landing site… and the crust model of Mare Orientale up on my website.”

Jacob Richardson, a planetary volcanologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Credit: Jacob Richardson

Also on the website is Ina D, the largest of the irregular mare patches on the Moon.

You can view each model and get more information about them at:

https://jarichardson.github.io/3d-models