It was equipped with a big jet engine which provided enough thrust to counteract 5/6th of the pull of Earth's gravity and that big engine - firing more or less straight down - made the trainer more unstable than the LM. Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, prepares to deploy the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP) during the Apollo 11 lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA). Movie. And NASA had never done that because they were concentrating so hard on getting the spacecraft ready to fly. Apollo 11 Zusammenfassung Aus dem Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. But, whatever the reason for it, they said go ahead and target for the next landing site. It went up to space on July 16, 1969, carrying three astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.On July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the moon, while Collins stayed in orbit around the Moon. So, by the end of Apollo 10, we will have three options for Apollo 11.' However, as with later crews, as time passed, their confidence grew. An annotated portrayal of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon with captions to explain the various stages of the descent. He decided to follow an old maxim: "When in doubt, land long." According to Cernan, the LLTV was actually harder to fly than the LM. Nowhere on the Moon are craters of that size more than a few kilometers apart and, for this first landing, the NASA flight engineers were not yet ready to fine-tune the approach trajectory to much better than about eight kilometers east or west of the target point and about two kilometers north or south. The Apollo 11 "landing ellipse" contains dozens of craters a hundred meters across or more, and the important point is that the LM had enough maneuverability and propellant so that Armstrong could avoid even the largest of them. Apollo 11 | Apollo 12 | Apollo 13 | Apollo 14 | Apollo 15 | Apollo 16 | Apollo 17 ALSJ/AFJ Translations. ', "There was lots of discussion about it. No one expected that they would have to launch right away but, just in case a problem did develop - say a leak of the high pressure helium that they would use to pressurize the propellant tanks in the Ascent Stage, they wanted to be ready. THE EAGLE HAS LANDED." That bag they raised and lowered with a hook and lanyard, a humble rope that somehow managed to inherit the LEC's name. They were bothered by spacecraft noises and by sunlight leaking around the edges of the window shades and in through the sextant. Similarly, if no core sets were available, the program would branch to Alarm/Abort and set Alarm 1202. (Post-mission analysis indicated that they actually had about 45 seconds of fuel left, rather than 20. While Armstrong flew the LM toward a good landing spot, his attention was totally focused on the job at hand. Armstrong had killed almost all of their forward velocity and now, as they began to kick up dust with the engine exhaust, he asked Aldrin to confirm that they were still moving forward a little. And everybody was just sort of staring at him. He was Science Director and he just couldn't control himself. For example, we might have used an Erasable memory location with the mnemonic name TGO to contain the calculated time of engine burn for a maneuver. To learn more, visit the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal's Apollo 11 page. The most famous incident was on Apollo 14, when Don figured out how to patch the program to ignore the faulty Abort switch. In principle, if he didn't like the spot, he could pulse the pistol-grip handcontroller forward or back or to either side and, thereby tell the computer to move the target a small amount in the indicated direction. They did not know about the crater yet - Armstrong wouldn't discuss it until well after the landing - but it was obvious that the landing was taking longer than planned. Ein kleiner Schritt. START. 24 July 1969. However, it wasn't until Apollo 15 that the lunar stays were long enough - and the astronauts and mission planners had confidence enough - that the crews got out of their suits during the rest periods and, with the help of earplugs to cut down on the noise, really got some sleep. One of the people we briefed was Jerry Hammack, the Recovery Chief, who was in charge of recovery back here on Earth. See Building on Experience.). Essentially, it was a clothesline. Like the Surface Journal, it is intended to be a resource for all those interested in the Apollo flights to the Moon, whether in a passing or scholarly capacity. To do that, he would have to overfly the crater and land well to the west of it; and there was clearly no point - nor really much time - to give the computer enough of an update via the handcontroller. Apollo 11. Find and read the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal's entry for Apollo 17, no. The journal presently covers eleven human flights of the Apollo program, relating the parts of the missions not on the lunar surface. The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle, in a landing configuration was photographed in lunar orbit from the Command and Service Module Columbia. At the end of EVA-2, after John Young and Charlie Duke completed Station 10 activities about 60m from the LM, Charlie ran back to the LM while John got into his Rover seat to prepare for the brief drive to the LM. Apollo 11 (CSM Columbia and LM Eagle) Saturn V July 16-24, 1969 Neil A. Armstrong Michael Collins Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. 08 days, 03 hours, 18 minutes First manned lunar landing mission and lunar surface EVA. 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