Remembering Apollo - man's 1st step on the moon - Part 2

Arriving and entering into Lunar orbit.
Seen below are craters Sabine and Ritter, and mountains stretching back to the horizon on July 19th, 1969.

Looking down at the Command and Service Module (center), with the Moon's surface below, as seen from the now-separated Lunar Module (LM), on its way to the surface.
The proiminent crater is Schmidt crater.
This is the last photo taken from the LM prior to the powered descent, and eventually the landing one orbit later.

Television footage of the first human footstep on Lunar soil on July 20, 1969.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong took these first steps, followed shortly by Buzz Aldrin.
This is a reproduction of the television image that was transmitted to the world on July 20th, 1969.

A close-up view of astronaut Buzz Aldrin's boot and bootprint in the lunar soil, photographed with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) on July 20th, 1969.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on his way to the Lunar surface for the LM on July 20th, 1969.

Buzz Aldrin took this picture of Neil Armstrong in the cabin after the completion of the first EVA.
This is the face of the first man to set foot on the Moon, just hours earlier, on July 20th, 1969.

From Wikipedia contributor Rufus330Ci: "This is a picture of my mother holding the Washington News Paper on Monday, July 21st 1969 stating 'The Eagle Has Landed Two Men Walk on the Moon'. The photo was taken by my grandfather Jack Weir (1928-2005)" 

During their 2 1/2 hour EVA, Astronauts deployed a number of science experiments.
 Here, Buzz Aldrin is seen carrying the Laser Ranging Retroreflector Experiment (LRRR) and a seismometer to measure Moonquakes.

Close-up of the north footpad of the Lunar Module, with some lunar soil piled up beneath, evidence of a tiny amount of drift during the landing.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, photographed by Neil Armstrong (visible in reflection).
Buzz Aldrin: "As I walked away from the Eagle Lunar Module, Neil said 'Hold it, Buzz', so I stopped and turned around, and then he took what has become known as the 'Visor' photo.
I like this photo because it captures the moment of a solitary human figure against the horizon of the Moon, along with a reflection in my helmet's visor of our home away from home, the Eagle, and of Neil snapping the photo. Here we were, farther away from the rest of humanity than any two humans had ever ventured.
Yet, in another sense, we became inextricably connected to the hundreds of millions watching us more than 240,000 miles away.
In this one moment, the world came together in peace for all mankind." (quoted with permission from Apollo Through the Eyes of the Astronauts).

Post-deployment documentation photo of the Laser Ranging Retroreflector Experiment (LRRR).
 For the past 40 years, the retroreflectors were used in conjunction with a dedicated facility at the McDondald Observatory in Texas to accurately measure the distance to the Moon.
These experiments discovered, among other things, that the moon is moving away from Earth at a rate of 2.5 inches per year.
 The National Science Foundation recently terminated funding for the McDonald Laser ranging station, with continued measuements to be made by two other facilities.

View of Earth above the Lunar Module on July 20th, 1969. 
 

Interior view of the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission Control Center (MCC), Building 30, during the Apollo 11 lunar extravehicular activity (EVA).
The television monitor shows astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. on the surface of the moon, July 20, 1969.

Panorama of the view out Buzz Aldrin's window over the thrusters after the EVA.

A memorial plaque, attached to a leg of the Lunar Module.
The plaque reads: "Here Men From The Planet Earth First Set Foot Upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We Came in Peace For All Mankind."

 

A bright halo around the shadow of Buzz Aldrin's helmet, the sun directly behind his head. 

After lifting off from the Moon, Eagle approaches the Command Module during rendezvous.
Astronaut Michael Collins, who remained on board the Command Module for the entire trip, remembers taking this photograph: "Little by little, they grew closer, steady, as if on rails, and I thought 'What a beautiful sight,'one that had to be recorded.
As I reached for my Hasselblad, suddenly the Earth popped up over the horizon, directly behind Eagle.
 I could not have staged it any better, but the alignment was not of my doing, just a happy coincidence.
 I suspect a lot of good photography is like that, some serendipitous happenstance beyond the control of the photographer.
 But at any rate, as I clicked away, I realized that for the first time, in one frame, appeared three billion earthlings, two explorers, and one moon.
The photographer, of course, was discreetly out of view." (quoted with permission from Apollo Through the Eyes of the Astronauts)

This view of the whole full moon was photographed from the Apollo 11 spacecraft during its trans-Earth journey homeward.
When this picture was taken, the spacecraft was already 10,000 nautical miles away, on July 21st, 1969.

 

A black and white photograph of the Earth taken during the trip home from the Moon.

 

Apollo 11 crew and a Navy diver await pickup after a safe splashdown east of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean on July 24th, 1969.

 

Astronauts Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin (left to right) in their isolation van on-board the recovery ship U.S.S Hornet are greeted by U.S. President Richard M. Nixon on July 24th, 1969.

 

New York City welcomes Apollo 11 crewmen in a showering of ticker tape down Broadway and Park Avenue in a parade termed as the largest in the city's history on August 13, 1969.
Pictured in the lead car, from the right, are astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot.

 

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