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  2. Lunar Module Eagle - Wikipedia

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    Lunar Module Eagle (LM-5) is the spacecraft that served as the crewed lunar lander of Apollo 11, which was the first mission to land humans on the Moon. It was named after the bald eagle , which was featured prominently on the mission insignia .

  3. Apollo Lunar Module - Wikipedia

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    A 30-second descent orbit insertion burn was performed to reduce speed and drop the LM's perilune to within about 50,000 feet (15 km) of the surface, [5] about 260 nautical miles (480 km) uprange of the landing site. Lunar Module Eagle, the Lunar Module ascent stage of Apollo 11, in orbit above the Moon. Earth is visible in the distance.

  4. Tranquility Base - Wikipedia

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    Armstrong named the site at 20:17:58 UTC, approximately 18 seconds after his and Aldrin's successful landing, as he announced: Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. [6] During training, Armstrong and Aldrin had exclusively used the callsign "Eagle" in simulated ground conversations, both before and after landing. [7]

  5. Apollo 11 - Wikipedia

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    Armstrong pilots Eagle to its landing on the Moon, July 20, 1969. When Armstrong again looked outside, he saw that the computer's landing target was in a boulder-strewn area just north and east of a 300-foot-diameter (91 m) crater (later determined to be West crater ), so he took semi-automatic control.

  6. General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle - Wikipedia

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    On 2 June 2012, the Gray Eagle reached a record 10,000 successful automatic launch and recoveries with the Automatic Takeoff and Landing System (ATLS). The system also landed with a 26 knot crosswind. By 25 July 2012, the Army's Gray Eagle Block 1 aircraft has accumulated more than 35,000 flight hours since it was first deployed in 2008.

  7. File:McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle 3-view.svg - Wikipedia

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    The original can be viewed here: McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle drawing.png: . Modifications made by Krzysztof Zajączkowski (malyszkz). Licensing.

  8. Moon Museum - Wikipedia

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    Moon Museum is a small ceramic wafer three-quarters by one-half inch (19 by 13 mm) in size, [1] containing artworks by six prominent artists from the late 1960s. The artists with works in the "museum" are Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, Forrest Myers and Andy Warhol.

  9. McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD - Wikipedia

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    The aircraft used for the project was pre-production TF-15A (F-15B) No. 1 (USAF S/N 71-0290), the first two-seat F-15 Eagle built by McDonnell Douglas (out of 2 prototypes [2]), the sixth F-15 off the assembly line, and was the oldest F-15 flying up to its retirement. It was also used as the avionics testbed for the F-15E Strike Eagle program. [3]