SPACE.com -- Flight Day Two: Images of Earth

The Apollo 11 crew.

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Apollo 11 lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969.

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Buzz Aldrin walks on the Moon during Apollo 11.

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Columbia is the gem of the ocean after Apollo 11 splashes down in the Pacific.

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	Flight Day Two: Images of Earth posted: 30 June 2005 06:04 am

JULY 17, 1969
JULY 17, 1969

8:48 a.m.- Mission Control gives Apollo crew a brief review of the morning news, including sports developments. They are informed about the progress of the Russian space ship Lunar 15 and that Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, ranking government official at the Apollo 11 blastoff, has called for putting a man on Mars by the year 2000.

View of Earth taken by Apollo 11 crew following translunar injection.

12:17 p.m.- Midcourse correction is made with a three-second burn, sharpening the course of the spacecraft and testing the engine that must get them in and out of lunar orbit.

7:31 p.m.- Astronauts begin first scheduled color telecast from spacecraft, showing view of the Earth from a distance of about 128,000 nautical miles. During the 36-minute transmission, views are also shown of the inside of the command module.

9:42 p.m.- Mission control bids the crew goodnight.

Source: NASA history office