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Four of TIME'S Apollo 11 team are pictured above with famed Space Writer Arthur C. Clarke, who made his own contribution to the supplement. They are standing before a mock-up of LM, the lunar module, part of a new display in the Time & Life Exhibition Center, which includes models of Saturn V, Surveyor, Ranger and Lunar Orbiter, along with an astronaut manikin standing on a simulated piece of the moon...
Tracking landmarks through the front windows of the lunar module (LM) as it flies face down, the astronauts will fire their descent engine when the craft is 50,000 ft. above the moon and 300 miles east of the planned landing site in the Sea of Tranquillity. Its forward velocity slowed by the blasting engine, the LM will begin dropping closer to the lunar surface. At 39,250 ft., the craft will begin rolling into a face-up position, pitching into an upright attitude at the same time. Twelve minutes later, its rate of fall slowed from...
...this point, Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin will hastily check out the LM for any damage suffered in the landing. Should they discover any serious problems, such as leaking fuel or falling pressure in the cabin, they will abort the mission, blasting off immediately to rejoin Collins in the orbiting command module. If all is well, they will have a brief snack, sleep for four hours and eat a leisurely dinner. Only then will they struggle into their bulky space suits, visored helmets, boots and gloves. With their Portable Life Support System (PLSS) backpacks, which supply air conditioning and enough oxygen...
Some ten hours after the landing, Armstrong will begin EVA (extravehicular activity), backing feet-first out of the hatch, on his belly. On the LM's "porch," he will pull a ring that opens a storage area and exposes a mounted TV camera, which will relay to audiences on earth a view of his awkward progress down the LM's ladder. At the bottom, Armstrong will place his right foot in the bowl-shaped footpad and?by 2:22 a.m. Monday, if he is on schedule?plant his left foot firmly on lunar soil...
About 25 minutes after Armstrong emerges from the LM hatch, Astronaut Aldrin will pass an electrically powered Hasselblad still camera down a nylon conveyor (similar to a clothesline on pulleys), and then back down the ladder himself. The astronauts will move next to the opened storage area, called MESA, for Modularized Equipment Storage Assembly. Armstrong will detach the TV camera and place it on a stand about 30 ft. from the LM to provide a panoramic view of the surface activities. While Aldrin is setting up a solar wind experiment, consisting of a 1-ft. by 4-ft. aluminum-foil...