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Michael Collins

View of the exterior of the spacecraft heading to the Moon

Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969, 031:00:00 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption numbered “AS11-36-5365” and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso

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Taken by the TV camera inside the spacecraft Columbia

Neil Armstrong weightless during the outbound journey to the Moon

Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969, 034:14:25 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-69-39409” in red in top margin

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Michael Collins

Neil Armstrong floating with the TV camera in the tunnel connecting the Lunar Module Eagle and the Command Module Columbia during the flight to the Moon

Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969, 056:31:06 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 the verso, numbered “NASA AS11-36-5385” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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NASA SP-350, p. 211.

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313 a
The LM docking target seen from the left rendezvous window of the docked CSM Columbia during translunar coast.

“The offset docking target on the LM was lined up with the Pilot’s window on the CSM if alignment was right. Then an array of powerful latches locked the two spacecraft together” (NASA SP-350, p. 211).

031:05:26 Public Affairs Office (Mission Control): Apollo 11, at this time, is 121,158 nautical miles [224,385 km] from Earth, traveling at a speed of 4,613 feet per second [1,406 m/s].

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A still from the outbound journey’s TV transmission. Apollo 11 was 130,000 nautical miles away from Earth and traveling at a speed of about 4360 feet per second.

034:14:25 Collins: We are very comfortable up here, though. We do have a happy home. There’s plenty of room for the three of us and I think we’re all learning to find our favorite little corner to sit in. Zero g is very comfortable, but after a while you get to the point where you sort of get tired of rattling around and banging off the ceiling and the floor and the side, so you tend to find a little corner somewhere and put your knees up or something like that to wedge yourself in, and that seems more at home.
034:15:05 Duke (Mission Control): Roger. Looks like Neil is coming in five-by there, 11. Mike, see you in the background. The definition is really outstanding. The colors are good. It’s a real good picture we’re getting here of Commander Armstrong. [...]
034:15:35 Collins: Yeah, Neil’s standing on his head again. He’s trying to make me nervous.

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An extremely rare photograph. Collins took the view up the tunnel towards the LM showing Armstrong in weightlessness holding the TV camera and filming Aldrin doing a LM inspection.

“An extra TV monitor is attached to the camera body with the ever-present gray tape. Early crews had no such monitor or other means of image control and complained about their inability to easily/properly point the camera inside the cramped quarters of their spacecraft, so this was what they were granted. The camera is the Westinghouse color model, essentially the same model that suffered the burnout on Apollo 12, only that this one is IVA (IntraVehicular Activity)-black while the A12 camera was EVA-white” (ALSJ caption for AS11-36-5385).

From the mission transcript during the TV transmission:

056:26:39 Public Affairs Officer (Mission Control): We’ve been receiving television now from the spacecraft for about an hour and 20 minutes. Apollo 11 presently 177,000 miles from Earth. [...]
056:30:48 Duke (Mission Control): 11, that’s real good camera work.
056:31:06 Armstrong: That’ll be the most unusual position a cameraman’s ever had, hanging by his toes from a tunnel and taking the picture upside down.
056:31:17 Duke: Roger. Well you’re doing a super job. [...]
056:37:01 Aldrin: Like old home week, Charlie, to get back in the LM again.
056:37:04 Duke: Rog. I can imagine.
056:37:24 Aldrin: The traverse from the bottom of the LM to the aft bulkhead of the Command Module must be about, oh, 16, 20 feet. It’s not a disorienting one at all, but it’s most interesting to contemplate just pushing off from one and bounding on into the other vehicle all the way through the tunnel.
056:37:44 Duke: Rog. Must be some experience. Is Collins going to go in and look around? [Pause.]
056:37:56 Armstrong: We’re - we’re willing to let him go but he hasn’t come up with the price of the ticket yet.