Apollo 11 in Lunar Orbit 19-Jul-1969
Channel: catguta
Date: 2012-07-19

Command Module Pilot, Michael Collins, describing the video he is transmitting to Mission Control ("Houston") from the Command Module window the day before the historic landing of Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin on the surface of the Moon.

Collins: "Houston, what you're seeing in the middle of the screen now is the crater Schubert and Gilbert U is in the center right now; and this comes up at about - a little over 12 minutes before power decent. Instead of me looking - Instead of looking back at it, we'd be looking straight down at it in descent."

Houston: "Roger.  And we show you at an altitude now of about 110 miles; and, of course, you'll be considerably lower at the initiation of powered descent."

This video was recorded July 19, 1969 at 3:06pm CDT

Public Domain, NASA video (NASA download at: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/video/apollo/apollo11/mpg/apollo11_dlclip13.mpg).