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From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.)
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Subject: Re: Apollo 11 landing trivia
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Date: Tue, 8-Nov-83 14:27:37 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  8 14:27:37 1983
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This item of trivia is near and dear to my heart. I have it memorized
and I often recite it on appropriate occasions, such as when I turn off
the ignition after a long trip. These words are on a floppy National
Geographic record which came with a post-Apollo issue of the magazine.
The words are hard to understand, but they are faithfully reproduced
by Norman Mailer in "Of a Fire on the Moon". Here they are, but I don't
guarantee them against transpositions or omissions (Note the very first
word he says):

ALDRIN: Ok, engine stop. Modes control both auto. ACA out of detente.
	Auto descent engine command override off. Engine arm off.
	413 is in.

HOUSTON: We copy you down eagle.

ALDRIN: Houston, Tranquility base here; the Eagle has landed.

Another item of trivia which I recently learned: shortly after the landing
Aldrin, an Episcopalian, celebrated communion with some wine and a wafer
which he had brought in his personal kit.

	Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew