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From: lew@ihlpa.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.)
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Subject: Re: Chariots for Apollo #9 - The landing
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Date: Mon, 17-Nov-86 10:38:01 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 17 10:38:01 1986
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> The lander settled gently down, like a helicopter, and Armstrong cut
> off the engine.
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> 	4 days, 6 hours, 45 minutes, 57 seconds.  Capcom: We copy you
> 	down Eagle.
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> 	Armstrong: Houston, Tranquility Base here.  THE EAGLE HAS LANDED.
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> 	Capcom: Roger, Tranquility.  We copy you on the ground.  You got
> 	a bunch of guys about to turn blue.  We're breathing again.
> 	Thanks a lot.
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> From "Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft", NASA
> SP-4205, available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government
> Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402, stock number 033-000-00768-0, $12.
> 
> This is the last in this series of excerpts.  If anyone has missed an
> installment, send mail to ihnp4!ihuxl!dcn for a copy.
> 						Dave Newkirk
> -- 
> 				Dave Newkirk, ihnp4!ihuxl!dcn

For all the detail being given, you'd think that the actual words spoken
after touchdown would be included. From memory, I think it was Armstrong who
recited the checklist:

"OK, engine stop, ACA out of detente, modes control both auto, descent
engine command overide off, engine arm off, 413 is in."

Pure poetry. This was was what elicited the response "We copy you down Eagle."

The only sources I know which avoid this wanton excision are the National
Geographic record insert, and Norman Mailer's OF A FIRE ON THE MOON. It was
from the latter that I got the words, since I couldn't quite understand
the record.


Lew Mammel, Jr.

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