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One Minute Before Apollo 11 Landed
Eagle is 500 feet above the Sea of Tranquility with sixty seconds of hover-fuel left. Armstrong is flying manually over a boulder field. Houston is holding its breath.
- Date
- 20 July 1969
- Time
- 20:16:40 UTC
- Location
- Sea of Tranquility, Moon
- Duration
- 3 min
Perspectives available
Armstrong (Commander)Aldrin (LMP)Duke (CAPCOM)
People in the room
Neil Armstrong
Commander · LM Eagle
Buzz Aldrin
Lunar Module Pilot · LM Eagle
Michael Collins
CMP · CM Columbia (orbit)
Charlie Duke
CAPCOM · MOCR, Houston
Gene Kranz
Flight Director · MOCR, Houston
Sources
- NASA Air-to-Ground Loop
- Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
- Kranz mission notes