Eagle lands at Tranquility Base
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.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Apollo 11 · mission · not located
- Tranquility Base (Apollo 11 landing site) · landing site · Moon
- Apollo Lunar Module · spacecraft · not located
Evidence
Verified — Every field is supported by a cited authoritative source. This is the standing of the weakest source, not an average.
Apollo 11 Mission Report
Source for Apollo 11 launch, landing, EVA and splashdown times, sample mass returned, and the deployed surface experiment package.
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center · 1969-11 · Verified
NASA MSC-00171, Apollo 11 Mission Report, November 1969
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera imaging of the Apollo landing sites
Provides the modern position of the Apollo 11 Eagle descent stage and Laser Ranging Retroreflector at 0.67408° N, 23.47297° E, together with imagery of hardware, experiment packages and crew tracks still in place.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Arizona State University · 2009 onward · Verified
LROC featured site: Apollo 11, NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
Recorded on Apollo 11
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