Voice From Moon:
‘Eagle Has Landed’
EAGLE (the lunar module): Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
HOUSTON: Roger, Tranquility, we copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
TRANQUILITY BASE: Thank you.
HOUSTON: You're looking good there.
TRANQUILITY BASE: A very smooth touchdown
HOUSTON: Eagle, you are stay for T1. [The first step in the lunar operation.] Over.
TRANQUILITY BASE: Roger. Stay for T1.
HOUSTON: Roger and we see you venting the ox.
TRANQUILITY BASE: Roger.
COLUMBIA (the command and service module): How do you read me?
HOUSTON: Columbia, he has landed Tranquility Base. Eagle is at Tranquility. I read you five by. Over
COLUMBIA: Yes, I heard the whole thing.
HOUSTON: Well, it's a good show.
COLUMBIA: Fantastic.
TRANQUILITY BASE: I'll second that.
APOLLO CONTROL: The next major stay-no stay will be for the T2 event. That is a 21 minutes 26 second after initiation of power descent.
COLUMBIA: Up telemetry command reset to re-
Neil A. Armstrong moves away from the leg of the landing craft talking the first step on the surface of the moon
A Powdery Surface
Is Closely Explored
HOUSTON, Monday, July 21 - Men have landed and walked on the moon.
Two Americans, astronauts of Apollo 11, steered their fragile four-legged lunar module safely and smoothly to the historic landing yesterday at 4:17:40 P.M., Eastern daylight time.
Neil A. Armstrong, the 38-year old civilian commander, radioed to earth and the mission control room here:
"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
The first men to reach the moon - Mr. Armstrong and his co-pilot, Col. Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. of the Air Force - brought their ship to rest on a level, rock-strewn plain near the southwestern shore of the arid Sea of Tranquility.
About six and a half hours later, Mr. Armstrong opened the landing craft's hatch, stepped slowly down the ladder and declared as he planted the first human footprint on the lunar crust:
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
His first step on the moon came at 10:56:20 P.M., as a television camera outside the craft transmitted his every move to an awed and excited audience of hundreds of millions of people on earth.