Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, or Michael Collins

Earthrise, taken after transEarth injection

Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969, 135:34:44 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on verso, numbered “NASA AS11-44-6650” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, La Lune: Du Voyage Réel aux Voyages Imaginaires, April-July 2019; exhibition catalogue, p. 25, no. 17, illustrated.

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A half Earth greeted the Command Module Columbia after it completed 30 revolutions around the Moon and made the rocket burn that sent it homeward. To the left the northern fringes of Smyth’s Sea are visible, and to the right the 120-km dark-floored crater Neper. Following transEarth injection (TEI), Columbia had increased its altitude to over 800 km, which explains the increased curvature of the lunar surface. The photograph was taken through the 250mm telephoto lens.

135:31:07 Collins: Okay, we got to visually acquire Moon, take pictures, and then you got a P52 to do. [...]
135:31:34 Armstrong: What are you doing, Mike? What you taking pictures of...
135:31:40 Collins: Oh, I don’t know. Wasting film, I guess.
135:31:43 Armstrong: You can take some pretty good pictures out of the hatch, here.
135:31:46 Collins: You’re right. This crapping thing - [garble] set on f:4 or 5.6; that’s probably about right.
135:31:57 Aldrin: Here’s a ring that came from somewhere, I wonder where? (singing)
135:32:04 Armstrong (onboard): You want to take pictures over here? Go ahead, why don’t you just set up that...
135:32:07 Collins: I’ll check Window 3.
135:32:10 Armstrong: ...set up that tape and let it do its thing. It’s still got a long way to go for [garble].
135:32:15 Aldrin: Alright, now. Do we want black and white, color, 250, or 80? I’ve got all options over here.
135:32:19 Armstrong: Oh, we’ll probably want - How many cameras you got?
135:32:21 Aldrin: Let me have a camera. How many cameras?
135:32:23 Collins: Well, only one camera, but I’ve got [garble] lenses. [...]
135:34:41 Aldrin: Hey, I hope somebody’s getting the picture of the Earth coming up.
135:34:44 Collins: [Garble]. Not quite pitched far enough. Well, maybe I can get it out...
135:34:53 Armstrong: I can get around to here.
135:34:54 Collins: [Garble] your window.
135:34:57 Armstrong: Upside down, turn the
camera upside down. Then it’ll look right.