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Taken by the TV camera mounted by Neil Armstrong to the LM’s porch

Neil Armstrong unveiling the commemorative plaque in the first TV transmission from another world

Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969, 109:52:24 GET

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption on the verso, numbered “NASA S-69-39563” in black in top margin

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Taken by the TV camera mounted by Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface

TV panoramic view of the lunar surface

Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969, 110:00:29 GET

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption on the verso, numbered “NASA S-69-39560” in black in top margin

20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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After Armstrong equipped the TV camera with a longer focal length lens to cover the astronauts’ activities on the lunar surface, the astronauts unveiled a commemorative plaque on the landing gear of the LM Eagle.

109:51:30 Armstrong: Okay, Houston. Tell me if you’re getting a new picture.
109:51:35 McCandless (Mission Control): Neil, this is Houston. That’s affirmative. We’re getting a new picture. You can tell it’s a longer focal length lens. And for your information, all LM systems are Go. Over.
109:51:46 Aldrin: We appreciate that. Thank you. (Long Pause)
109:52:24 Aldrin: Neil is now unveiling the plaque that is (garbled) gear.
109:52:27 McCandless (Mission Control): Roger. We got you boresighted, but back and to one side. (Pause)
109:52:40 Armstrong: For those who haven’t read the plaque, we’ll read the plaque that’s on the front landing gear of this LM. First there’s two hemispheres, one showing each of the two hemispheres of the Earth. Underneath it says “Here Men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.” It has the crew members’ signatures and the signature of the President of the United States.

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Armstrong deployed the TV camera to a point about 20 meters northwest of the LM, the length of the cable connecting it to the spacecraft.

109:58:55 Armstrong: Okay, now...Do you think I ought to be farther away, or closer?
109:59:01 Aldrin: Can’t get too much further away.
109:59:05 Armstrong: Let’s try it like that for a while. I’ll get a couple of panoramas with it (the TV camera) here. [...]
110:00:29 Armstrong: Okay. Now, this one is right down-Sun, straight west. And I want to know if you can see an angular rock in the foreground…