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1969
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FLIGHT International, 12 Jure 1969 987 surised, the hatch opened, and Neil Armstrong will climb down the aluminium ladder on to the Moon, the scene being recorded for posterity by the TV camera of Edwin Aldrin. The first task will be to collect a "contingency sample" of soil, so that, should an emergency arise necessitating an immediate return to orbit, a major area of the programme will have been accomplished. Aldrin will then emerge from the LM, and the crew will begin to deploy TV and seismic, solar wind and laser equip ment on the surface. Further samples of soil will then be col lected and the spacecraft will be inspected. At 0932 BST on July 22 the crew will re-enter the lunar module to rest and eat before firing the ascent stage at 1700 BST, after a stay of 21hr 37min 21sec. Docking with the command module will take place at 2032 BST. The voyage will end with splashdown at about 1800 BST on Thursday, July 24. Rlttl OLTKl mm WES' nil m ht-.zi 2 mi below, the significant events of the Apollo 11 flight, which is scheduled for launch on July 16, are illustrated in this drawing, which is not to scale; the distance between the Earth and Moon has been con siderably reduced in proportion to their size. The touchdown area for Apollo 11 (right) is the second of five sites chosen from pictures returned by the series of Lunar Orbiters. All of these sites lie along the lunar equator for easy access in the initial Apollo flights, and are chosen so as to give the best chance of success mru MOLTK' •>ABII /~v MIDCOURSE CORRECTION V?; IF REQUIRED T/=r\ ORIENT CSM FOR W MIDCOURSE CORRECTION I ^N CSM GUIDANCE SYSTEM 2°J REFERENCE ALIGNMENT ^> SYSTEM STATUS CHECK (69) EAT AND SLEEP PERIODS V^DATA TRANSMIT PERIODS RENDEZVOUS MANEUVREbfR(y (TERMINAL PHASE FINALIZATION) © DETERMINE TRANSEARTH INJECTION (64 THRUSTING PARIMETERS 1ST MIDCOURSE CORRECTION TRANSEARTH T^TN/^ORIENT CSM ATTITUDE "WWFOR MIDCOURSE CORRECTION ORIENT S|C ATTITUDE FOR MIDCOURSE CORRECTION CSM GUIDANCE SYSTEM REFERENCE ALIGNMENT SYSTEM STATUS CHECKS EAT AND SLEEP PERIOD DATA TRANSMIT PERIOD MIDCOURSE CORRECTION IF REQUIRED ORIENT S/C ATTITUDE FOR MIDCOURSE CORRECTION CSM GUIDANCE SYSTEM REFERENCE ALIGNMENT SYSTEMS STATUS CHECKS EAT AND SLEEP PERIODS DATA TRANSMIT PERIODS 6l)CSM LM INITIAL DOCKING 65) TRANSEARTH INJECTION CONCENTRIC SEQUENCE INITIATION PLANE CHANGE INITIATE ^.TRANSFER CREW AND O/EQUIPMENT FROM LM TO CSf * " £ (63) CSM LM SEPARATION CONSTANT DELTA HEIGHT MANEUVRE TERMINAL PHASE INITIATION 1ST MIDCOURSE CORRECTION TRANSLUNAR SM ENGINE IGNITION ORIENT S|C ATTITUDE FOR MIDCOURSE CORRECTION CSM GUIDANCE SYSTEM REFERENCE ALIGNMENT LM SYSTEM CHECKOUT EXPLORE SURFACE fcs SETUP EXPERIMENTS1^ AND LM JETTISON 37\CSM GUIDANCE SYSTEM ' REFERENCE ALIGNMENT ORIENT Sfc ATTITUDE FC LUNAR ORBIT INSERTIOI LUNAR ORBIT INSERTION! /JT&CIRCULARIZATION BURN Vl? BEGINNING OF 3RD ORBIT 40) BEGIN LUNAR ORB|T CSM GUIDANCE SYSTEM REFERENCE ALIGNMENT 1ST 2 LUNAR ORBITS 60x170 47)DESCENT ORBIT INSERTION
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