Buy this Apollo 11 Eagle Ascent space photo. High quality Apollo 11 picture, slide, or Duratrans backlit transparency. NASA photograph AS11-44-6642 . Wide variety of sizes. The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage, with Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. aboard, is photographed from the Command and Service Modules (CSM) during rendezvous in lunar orbit. The Lunar Module (LM) was making its docking approach to the CSM. Astronaut Michael Collins remained with the CSM in lunar orbit while the other two crewmen explored the lunar surface. The large, dark-colored area in the background is Smyth's Sea, centered at 85 degrees east longitude and 2 degrees south latitude on the lunar surface (nearside). This view looks west. The Earth rises above the lunar horizon. Date Taken/Released: July 21, 1969 Credits: JSC NASA |
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