
Interviewer: 

I do realize that when you were on the moon, you had very little time for gazing upwards. But could you tell us something about what the sky actually looks like from the moon?  The sun, the earth, the stars, if any, and so on? 

Armstrong: 

The sky is …uh… a deep black …uh… when viewed from the moon, as it is when viewed from .uh… cis- lunar space, the space between the earth and the moon.

The uh…the earth is the only visible object other than the sun that can be seen,  although there’ve been some reports of seeing planets,  I myself did not see planets from the surface, but I suspect they might …uh… be visible.

The earth is quite beautiful from space, uh, …so...uh... and from the moon,  it’s looks quite small and quite remote,  but …uh… it’s very  blue and covered with ...uh…a…white lace, and …of… the clouds and the continents are clearly seen, although they have very little color from that distance.

Interviewer:

What about the sun, could you see any trace of the corona?

Armstrong:

No, the …uh… glare from the sun on the … helmet visor was too difficult to pick out the corona.  The only time we could see the corona was during eclipse of the sun from the moon,  that is, when we were flying through the moon’s shadow and could observe the, the uh…the solar…


Deep Black Color Of Sky

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