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Neil Armstrong

The shadow of the LM Eagle on the Sea of Tranquillity after touchdown

Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969, 103:59:47 GET

Unreleased photograph (originally shot on color film), USGS (United States Geological Survey) vintage gelatin silver “proof” print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “AS11-37-5453” in margin

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Buzz Aldrin

The lunar horizon over the Sea of Tranquillity after touchdown

Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969, 103:59:47 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption numbered “AS11-37-5458” and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

322 b
Thomas, pp. 190-191.

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A frame from the first panoramic sequence taken on another world by Armstrong from his LM Commander window with the Hasselblad IVA camera and color magazine 37/R, showing the western component of the so-called Double Crater and the shadow of Eagle.

The crew had two Hasselblad cameras inside the LM.
One camera for use in the cabin, called the IntraVehicular Camera (IVA). The camera body was black and not intended for use outside during the EVA. The IVA camera did not have a reseau plate, so images taken with it did not have a five-by-five grid of reseau crosses. The IVA camera had an 80mm (focal length) Zeiss lens.
One camera for use outside on the lunar surface (Hasselblad EL Data Camera), called the ExtraVehicular Camera (EVA), which had a silver-colored finish to prevent overheating. It also had a reseau plate, so images taken with it did show a grid of crosses.
The EVA camera had a wide-angle 60mm Zeiss-Biogon lens.

From the mission transcript just after landing:

102:45:40 Aldrin: Contact Light.
102:45:43 Armstrong: Shutdown
102:45:44 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.
102:45:45 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
102:45:46 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.
102:45:47 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off. Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
102:45:57 Duke (Mission Control): We copy you down, Eagle.
102:45:58 Armstrong: Engine arm is off. (Pause) Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
102:46:06 Duke: Roger, Twan...(correcting himself) Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We’re breathing again. Thanks a lot.
102:46:16 Aldrin: Thank you.

“In my view, the emotional moment was the landing. That was human contact with the Moon, the landing.”
Neil Armstrong (Chaikin, Voices, p.58)

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A frame of the first panoramic sequence taken by Aldrin from his LM window with the Hasselblad IVA camera and color magazine 37/R after Armstrong documented the view from his own window.
This view was captured approximately one hour after the landing in order to briefly document the site and its immediately interesting features for the geologists, so that the crew wouldn’t have been forced to leave with empty hands in case of a No Stay decision.

From the mission transcript just after landing:

102:56:02 Aldrin: We’ll get to the details of what’s around here (later), but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape, angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock you could find. The color is...Well, it varies pretty much depending on how you’re looking relative to the zero phase point. There doesn’t appear to be too much of a general color at all. However, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders, of which there are quite a few in the near area... It looks as though they’re going to have some interesting colors to them. Over.