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Today in History: the Eagle lands
102:44:54 Aldrin: Okay. 75 feet. And it's looking good. Down a half, 6 forward.102:45:02 Duke: 60 seconds (of fuel left before the 'Bingo' call). [The accompanying 16-mm film clip (4.0Mb) by Gerald Megason covers the last forty seconds of the descent. The camera was mounted in Buzz's window and, when the clip starts, East Crater is visible at the bottom of the window.] 102:45:04 Aldrin: (Velocity) light's on. 102:45:08 Aldrin: 60 feet, down 2 1/2. (Pause) 2 forward. 2 forward. That's good. 102:45:17 Aldrin: 40 feet, down 2 1/2. Picking up some dust. 102:45:21 Aldrin: 30 feet, 2 1/2 down. (Garbled) shadow. 102:45:25 Aldrin: 4 forward. 4 forward. Drifting to the right a little. 20 feet, down a half. 102:45:31 Duke: 30 seconds (until the 'Bingo' call). 102:45:32 Aldrin: Drifting forward just a little bit; that's good. (Garbled) (Pause) 102:45:40 Aldrin: Contact Light. 102:45:43 Armstrong (on-board): Shutdown 102:45:44 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop. 102:45:45 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent. 102:45:46 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto. [Armstrong, from a 1996 letter - "The Attitude Control Assembly [ACA] was the control stick. It had potentiometers or transducers or something similar to provide an output proportional to stick position. Output went to the LGC (LM Guidance Computer) to command the RCS jets to fire. 'Out of Detent' simply means the stick was moved away from its centered position. It was spring/detent centered like the turn signal control on your car."] 102:45:47 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off. Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in. 102:45:57 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle. 102:45:58 Armstrong (on-board): Engine arm is off. (Pause) Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. 102:46:06 Duke: (Momentarily tongue-tied) Roger, Twan...(correcting himself) Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot. Posted by: Mike 2008-07-20 |
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