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3-D view from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of Apollo 11 landing site. Two and a half hours after landing, before preparations began for the EVA, Aldrin radioed to Earth: This is the LM pilot.
In April 2021 the ISRO Chandrayaan-2 orbiter captured an image of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle descent stage. The orbiter's image of Tranquility Base, the Apollo 11 landing site, was released to the public in a presentation on September 3, 2021. [5]
It flew from Earth to lunar orbit on the command module Columbia, and then was flown to the Moon on July 20, 1969, by astronaut Neil Armstrong with navigational assistance from Buzz Aldrin. Eagle ' s landing created Tranquility Base , named by Armstrong and Aldrin and first announced upon the module's touchdown.
(By the way, don't Google "Apollo 11 images" unless you're prepared to sort through pages of fake moon landing conspiracy websites.) The most famous one is this iconic picture of Aldrin below.
Moon landing deniers say there's clear photographic evidence of this, and point out that because there's no breeze on the moon, this must be fake. ... The Apollo 11 crew bent some of the rods ...
Lunar Orbiter 5 image from 1967, cropped to show the vicinity of the landing site of Apollo 11, used in mission planning. The image is centered precisely on a small crater called West crater (190 m in diameter), and the lunar module Eagle touched down about 550 m west of West Crater.
In 1969, that's exactly what speechwriter William Safire imagined when waiting for the Apollo 11 to land on the moon. Safire penned a memo for President Nixon's Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman , in ...
The G-type mission, Apollo 11, performed the first lunar landing, the central goal of the program. The initial A–G [ 11 ] [ 14 ] list was expanded to include later mission types: [ 1 ] : 466 H-type missions—Apollo 12, 13 (planned) and 14—would perform precision landings, and J-type missions—Apollo 15, 16 and 17—would perform thorough ...