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Buzz aldrin, -- walked out placing a flag in the mood. while armstrong and aldrin made dinner footprints above above them orbiting the moon was michael collins. line the command module that the lunar lander would have to fly up to and dock with in order to get back to earth alive.this week he recalled the great risk of the sequence. >> knew no nasa in his wisdom always try to have redundancy and yet, when you look at the design of the lunar module, there is one combustion chamber, one little rocket motor. and that motor had to work, yes or no. if that motive did not lift them off, they were de...

It's a much different way to operate. we have not been back to the moon since 1972. we haven't gone any further with people than the moon. going mars is quite a leap. it's something we talk about doing 10 to 15 years in the future, and we still haven't been able to get there yet. >> this is the era of independent companies in this race back up to space for revenue paying passengers, a lot of it. there's something because it's not under the direct aegis of nasa feels a little corporate to us, until i remember the rockwell logo on the command module. it was private companies stitched together. b...

11. >> i am so excited we have this case on display for the 50th anniversary of apollo 11, the first landing on the moon in 1969. we would usually feature columbia which is the command module. columbia is on the national tour. >> reporter: this is a checklist. >> this is a checklist. this gives you operations on a day by day and you can see on the left-hand side they labeled it the old lunar scratchpad. they gave them a little space to take notes and keep track. somebody was having a little bit of fun. you can see it is fully annotated, taking notes on measurements, making their own list of th...

Islands on an altitude of 190 kilometers. now the crew had to make a key flight decision once they did there would be no turning back. nearly 3 hours after liftoff the 3rd stage of the saturn 5 rocket was fired which pushed the apollo capsule into a trajectory toward the moon. about 30 minutes later the crew separated the command module from the spent 3rd stage of . a rocket and docked with the eagle lunar module that was still attached to it the

Surface and gather soil samples but it's believed to a crashed into a mountain on july 21st. way back. on the afternoon of july 19th apollo 11 swung into lunar orbit and the crew started making preparations for their descent to the moon surface. after they are back. janet armstrong hoped for the best. landing gear set for late afternoon on july 20th armstrong and buzz aldrin now entered the eagle lunar lander and separated from the columbia command module. armstrong steered the lunar module standing up the vehicle had no seats to cut down on wait. the astronauts families followed the flight. t...