Apollo 11 - the Eagle has landed

102:45:40 Aldrin: Contact Light.
[At least one of the probes hanging from three of the footpads has touched the surface. Each of them is 67 inches (1.73 meters) long. The ladder strut doesn't have a probe. Buzz made the call at 20:17:40 GMT/UTC on 20 July 1969.]

102:45:43 Armstrong (on-board): Shutdown
102:45:44 Aldrin: Okay. Engine Stop.

[Armstrong: "I was surprised by a number of things, and I'm not sure (I can) recall them all now. I was surprised by the apparent closeness of the horizon. I was surprised by the trajectory of dust that you kicked up with your boot, and I was surprised that even though logic would have told me that there shouldn't be any, there was no dust when you kicked. You never had a cloud of dust there. That's a product of having an atmosphere, and when you don't have an atmosphere, you don't have any clouds of dust."]

102:45:45 Aldrin: ACA out of Detent.
102:45:46 Armstrong: Out of Detent. Auto.

102:45:47 Aldrin: Mode Control, both Auto. Descent Engine Command Override, Off. Engine Arm, Off. 413 is in.
["Address 413 contains the variable that indicates that the LM has landed - so any abort will be from the surface - which further tells the AGS to save the attitude information from its gyros. These gyros were 'strap-down' types, which means that they had a fixed orientation with respect to the LM body. They also had a nasty habit of drifting quite a bit. So, as soon as they landed, the AGS was to 'lock in', if you will, the attitude the LM was in. If the PGNS died - and it was the PGNS that oriented and re-aligned the AGS - at least they would have some approximate attitude information to abort with."]

102:45:57 Duke: We copy you down, Eagle.
102:45:58 Armstrong (on-board): Engine arm is off. (Pause) Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.

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[Astrobrant2]

Holy crap, Rob! I didn't see this. You made it two weeks before I made mine.

Oh well, I guess another look doesn't hurt. I'll PM you about this.

[Rob260259]

Hey, no problem Astro. To be honest, I think yours has more profundity in it. I just uploaded the original without editing.

[SirMildredPierce]

This is so great to watch. would love to see one done with the new batch of LRO pics, especially apollo 17..

[Rob260259]

Thanks SMP! As GoneToPlaid says it is an amazing piece of footage.

And maybe Jcgmed can do what GTP is proposing..!

[GoneToPlaid]

This video is a portion of jcgmed's video. It is an amazing video though.

[Rob260259]

Correct GTP. It is the hi-res Final Approach from the Lunar Surface Journal, a short film by René and Jonathan Cantin and composite of the landing film and Lunar Orbiter Frame 5076_h3, with a number of craters matched up in the two views.

[occhamite]

.....never gets old, no matter how many times one sees it.

[whilecondition]

"We Copy You Down Eagle"

[DIAMONDALLEY]

Wonderful video of one of man's greatest achievements!

[Rob260259]

Abel, the minority shouting "FAKE!" and puking insults have their own channels, with their dumb hoaxvideos. It's a kind of safe place for them, acknowledging eachother.

Happy newyear!

[TonyN737]

"Well this only proves that Hollywood did a great job faking it!" - MoonHoaxer

Wow, it still gives me the chills, especially seeing the lander at the end of the video.