The first descent to the lunar surface of a manned spacecraft: moonscapes seen from record breaking low altitude from the LM Snoopy, 18-26 May 1969

Two vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, printed 1969, each numbered "NASA AS10-29-4163" and "NASA AS10-29-4200" (NASA MSC) in top margin, each 20,3 x 25,4 cm

The primary mission of the crew was to fly the LM within fifty thousand feet of the Moon’s surface in order to inspect landing site 2 on the Sea of Tranquility, tentatively selected as the landing spot for Apollo 11.

First photograph: southern edge of the huge Crater Mendelev
Second photograph: over 37km Crater Green

From the mission transcript during the LM’s descent approach over the lunar farside when these photographs were taken:
100:03:49 Stafford (Snoopy): OK. Coming down here we should be on black and white - f:4 at 250 [focal length lens). [...]
100:04:19 Stafford (Snoopy): You know, this place is starting to look at home. [...]
100:05:59 Cernan (Snoopy): I tell you, babe, we’s getting down among dem.
100:06:17 Young (Charlie Brown): Yes. I guess you’re about straight under me now - 14 miles. [...]
100:08:23 Stafford (Snoopy): We’re coming up to crater IX. Jos., we’re coming up to crater IX, I think. We’ll be going straight across it.
100:08:28 Young (Charlie Brown): Roger.
100:08:31 Cernan (Snoopy): Maybe you could tell us better where we are, babe.
100:08:33 Young (Charlie Brown): We’re going right across old number IX. Sure are.
100:08:41 Stafford (Snoopy): Things are starting to move faster, John.
100:08:48 Cernan (Snoopy): OK, Tom, all our - everything’s looking good there, so far. [...]
100:09:12 Stafford (Snoopy): OK. Instead of yawing left and yawing right, I’m just going to stay here and take some [photos] - I think it would be more interesting for the whole thing just to take strip maps here. [...]
100:09:29 Cernan (Snoopy): The important film we want to get is down below, babe.