Lunar Module Eagle in lunar orbit, Apollo 11
Apollo 11, July 20, 1969. Michael Collins took this from the command module Columbia shortly after Eagle undocked, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin inside. The lander is already in landing configuration, legs out, and the thin rods hanging below three of its footpads are contact probes that lit a light in the cabin the moment they touched the surface. A few hours later Eagle set down in the Sea of Tranquility.
