 With 10 minutes before the LOI @-@ 1 , the crew began one last check of the spacecraft systems and made sure that every switch was in the correct place . At that time , they finally got their first glimpses of the Moon . They had been flying over the unlit side , and it was Lovell who saw the first shafts of sunlight obliquely illuminating the lunar surface . The LOI burn was only two minutes away , so the crew had little time to appreciate the view . 
