Apollo 11 Lunar Module Powered Descent & Landing on Moon July 20, 1969

Apollo 11 - Landing on the Sea of Tranquility - July 20, 1969. 16mm landing film by Gary Neff, source footage courtesy John Knoll. Full description: http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/video11.html#Landing NASA Video Original source: http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/A11Landing.mov

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[omegaman196601]

Roll at ~7 minutes to point radar at surface

[myrtlebox]

I recommend following along in the official NASA transcript. Neil says a lot more than you can hear here. Lots of great analysis by flight engineers as well - every step of the way.

[Mikey5406]

Landing the Eagle on the surface of the moon was the most important part of Apollo 11. Getting off was next. NASA had to know if landing and getting back to earth was safe.

Armstrong and Aldrin’s walk was not all that important technically. Of course it was extremely important historically. We don’t remember much of the landing but we sure do remember “One small step for man. One giant leap for mankind”.

Walking and collecting samples was the most important of the other Apollo missions.

[daenumen]

impossible, they full burnt for too long, they have run out of fuel.

[Whiteshirtloosetie]

Awesome! Stunning!...Wow!

[osallent]

Only the greatest moment in the history of the human race!  I can't wait for NASA to go back and I hope to see humans on Mars one day.

[bengals101]

only 20 seconds of fuel remaining...talk about breathtaking

[DanielleRoseMusic]

That was absolutelly, breath-taking. He said their guys were about to turn blue, I know what happens and I turned blue!!

[TimmyCrackCorn]

truly amazing ... have to get my kids to watch this footage. Thanks NASA and Smithsonian!

[hectorrojas1969]

what a ride....thanks for posting this Smithsonian, the whole twitter in real time and then the link to this also in 'real time'

fantastic work NASA