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Buzz Aldrin

Sunrise over Tranquillity Base

Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969, orbit 4, 082:56:50 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 “AS11-37-5437” in red in top margin

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Michael Collins

Oblique views of odd-shaped craters on the lunar farside

Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969, orbit 6, 086:12:00 and 086:17:57 GET

Two vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, 19.1 x 19.5cm and 19.3 x 19.5cm, margins trimmed close to images, with NASA MSC captions numbered “AS11-43-6422” and “AS11-43-6439” on the versos

20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Thomas, pp. 188-89; Reynolds, p. 138; NASA SP-350, p.210.

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Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, La Lune: Du Voyage Réel aux Voyages Imaginaires, April-July 2019; exhibition catalogue, p. 22, no. 9, illustrated.

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This picture was taken looking west with the 80mm lens from the window of the LM Eagle as Armstrong and Aldrin were in the midst of activating the LM docked to the CSM Columbia.
The crew was approaching the nearside terminator (boundary between day and night on the Moon) and the Sun was just rising over the Tranquility Base landing site, which can be seen near the shadow line, a little to the right of center. The jagged shape to the left is one of the LM thruster engines. The 22-km Crater Maskelyne is the large one at the lower right. Latitude / longitude: 0.2N / 24.5E.

082:54:01 Armstrong: Man, this is really something, you ought to look at this. You want to watch our approach into the landing site. You got to watch right through this window. We’re coming over - we just passed Mount Marilyn. We’re coming up on Maskelyne series here - straight out ahead, coming into the landing area.
082:54:23 Collins: Houston, we’re holding inertial a little while to study the approach to the landing zone. [...]
082:56:50 Aldrin: Houston, this is Apollo 11, in the Eagle. Apollo 11 in the Eagle. And I got a beautiful view of the whole landing area.

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Two very rare frames (shot with the 80mm lens) from the B&W magazine 43/T used only in the CM Columbia while in lunar orbit.

According to the NASA captions, the first image is an “Apollo 11 oblique view of the lunar farside. These two odd-shaped craters are located midway between International Astronomical Union (IAU) craters 218 and 220, and are centered at latitude / longitude 155° E 3° N. The craters total approximately 13.5 statute miles in length and 7.5 statute miles in width at their widest point”.
The second image is an “oblique view of the lunar farside. The linear group of small craters is located within the large IAU crater No. IX, and is centered at latitude / longitude 139.5° E 7° N. The absence of shadows is due to the high Sun angle. The crater chain is approximately 34 statute miles in length, and the large crater adjacent to the crater chain is 10.5 statute miles in diameter”.
The linear crater chain in the second photograph was later named Catena Mendeleev . This feature is located on the interior floor of the Mendeleev walled plain, known during the Apollo missions as Basin IX. The large crater is Richards.

086:17:37 Armstrong: Take along one of those craters.
086:17:57 Armstrong: I took overlapping pictures of all that [garble].
086:18:03 Aldrin: Tomorrow, take - we’re going to have to carry a lot of film to take as many pictures as they want.