Apollo XI. The first mission took the man to the moon (III and Last Part)
The astronauts slept quiet, no problems whatsoever.
Were about ten thousand miles from the target. Breakfast consisted of bacon and applesauce. On July 20, Edwin Aldrin went through the gate that connects the capsule of the "Columbia" in lunar lander "Eagle", starting the final control maneuvers for the descent. The operation began when they were flying over the invisible part of the moon. After Neil Armstrong went to meet with Aldrin. While the latter put on his spacesuit, the Commander of the mission's solar batteries operate the July 16, 1969 Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, began the greatest adventure of their lives, that scenario would the Moon. That day off the historic Apollo XI. The journey to the moon did not present any difficulty. Everything was normal with such precision and that the crew of Apollo 11 even had the courage to joke with the drivers in Houston. On Sunday 20 July, and in lunar orbit, Aldrin and Armstrong moved to the module "Eagle". Michael Collins remained closed the gate and driving the control module Columbia, waiting for the separation of the capsule and supporting maneuvering the lunar module. When the "Eagle" flew over the surface of the Moon Moondust up what remained visibility approach maneuvering that the commander Neil Armstrong had taken by hand to avoid the risk of overturning of the automatic landing. Cuatrodías had elapsed since the beginning of the journey. The "Eagle" descended to the moon and landed on its surface on 20 July 1969 in the area called the Sea of Tranquility. When the commander came up the ladder of nine steps, pulled a ring that opened a gate which he left a television camera that transmitted to Earth the first images from the satellite. It was exactly at 10:56 P.M. When Armstrong climbed down a ladder with his suit and put your left foot on the moon. His first words were "I'm at the foot of the ladder. The legs of the Eagle have depressed the surface only a few inches. The surface appears to be very fine grained, when viewed up close. It's almost a fine powder, very fine. Now I leave the platform. " Then say the historic phrase: "This is a small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".