This classic NASA image chronicles the training of astronauts for 1971’s Apollo 14 mission, the third time we reached the moon. The astronauts had to practice everything, even that moment when they would plant the U.S. flag on our natural satellite. According to the Apollo 14 press kit, the astronauts spent approximately three weeks in quarantine after returning to Earth, being the final U.S. moonwalkers to be quarantined when they returned home.

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Planting the flag:

Alan Shepard makes the moon his driving range during Apollo 14: