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Close ✕Eagle lands at Tranquility Base
1969-07-20 20:17 UTC · Recorded · space
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The Lunar Module Eagle touched down on the southwestern Mare Tranquillitatis after Armstrong took manual control through repeated guidance-computer program alarms to fly beyond a boulder-strewn crater. LROC imaging later fixed the descent stage at 0.67408° N, 23.47297° E.
- Source
- NASA Manned Spacecraft Center · NASA MSC-00171, Apollo 11 Mission Report, November 1969
- Standing
- This record: verified · publisher: verified
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- Where
- At a canonical Atlas object, placed and checked by a curator.
- Subject
- MISSION_APOLLO_11 · Tranquility Base (Apollo 11 landing site) · VEHICLE_LUNAR_MODULE
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