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This knowledge base covers the Apollo 11 mission (first crewed lunar landing, July 1969), drawn from twenty-four sources — NASA primary documents plus two AAAS Science reprints on the laser-ranging experiment. The original syntheses built on it are catalogued under Analyses below.

Topics

Maps of related concepts.

• Apollo 11 — master map of the mission.
• Flight operations — the two spacecraft, powered descent and landing, ascent and rendezvous, and the trip home into quarantine.
• The moonwalk — the suits, egress, moving in 1/6 g, the prioritized surface tasks, and contingencies.
• Planning, procedures, and training — the plans, the as-flown checklists, the simulations, and plan-vs-actual.
• Communications and the public record — the three voice records, the TV broadcast, and the photographic record.
• Apollo lunar surface experiments — the EASEP instruments.
• Lunar geology and samples — collection, classification, dating, curation.

Concepts

Atomic articles, one idea each.

Mission & spacecraft

• Apollo 11 mission
• Lunar Module Eagle
• Command and Service Module Columbia
• Tranquility Base (Landing Site 2)
• LROC imaging of the Apollo 11 landing site
• GOSS NET 1 air-to-ground communications
• Television broadcast and surface communications
• Lunar quarantine and back-contamination

EVA & surface operations

• Powered descent and landing
• Apollo 11 EVA (first moonwalk)
• Apollo 11 EVA planned vs. actual timeline
• Apollo 11 EVA life-support and mobility equipment
• Apollo 11 LM onboard checklists
• Crew health and biomedical performance on Apollo 11
• Apollo 11 training and simulations
• Lunar dust as an operational problem
• Lunar surface mobility in one-sixth gravity
• Apollo 11 contingency EVA procedures
• Apollo 11 surface photography
• Apollo 11 photographic index
• Ceremonial and symbolic surface activities
• Lunar ascent and rendezvous
• Apollo 11 nominal mission timeline

Surface experiments

• Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP)
• Passive Seismic Experiment (S‑031)
• Laser Ranging Retroreflector (S‑078)
• Lunar laser ranging: results and legacy
• Lunar seismicity and interior structure (PSE results)
• Solar Wind Composition experiment (S‑080)

Samples & geology

• First-order results of Apollo 11
• Apollo 11 sample inventory
• Lunar sample collection and containers
• Apollo 11 sampling tools and containers
• Apollo 11 lunar sample types
• Lunar regolith and soil mechanics
• High-titanium mare basalt
• Apollo 11 basalt suites (high‑K and low‑K)
• Minerals first identified in Apollo 11 samples
• Lunar sample numbering and curation
• Lunar field geology (Experiment S-059)
• Surface exposure and space weathering

Reference

Lookup pages (not thematic concepts).

• Apollo 11 glossary — every acronym and term of art in the wiki, with a one-line definition and a link to the article that owns it.

Sources

One summary note per source.

• Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Operations Plan — pre-flight surface/EVA plan (MSC, 1969).
• Apollo 11 Flight Plan (Final, AS-506) — the GET-tagged “as-planned” mission timeline (MSC, Jul 1 1969).
• Apollo 11 LM Lunar Surface Checklist (LM-5) — the onboard surface-stay book: stay/no-stay, EVA prep, ascent readiness (MSC, Jun 16 1969).
• Apollo 11 LM Systems Activation Checklist — LM activation procedures and the CSM-to-LM transfer list (MSC, Jul 8 1969).
• Apollo 11 Press Kit (Release 69-83K) — pre-flight public mission overview, objectives, and experiments (NASA, Jun 1969).
• Apollo 11 EVA Procedures (Final) — crew checklist for planned and contingency EVA (MSC, May 1969).
• EASEP Handbook for Apollo 11 Flight Crew — crew handbook for the deployed experiments (GE/MSC, 1969).
• Apollo 11 Preliminary Science Report — first science results (NASA SP‑214, 1969).
• Apollo 11 Lunar Sample Information Catalogue — sample curation record (JSC 12522, 1977).
• Catalog of Apollo Lunar Surface Geological Sampling Tools and Containers — engineering catalog of the sampling hardware (Allton, JSC-23454, 1989).
• Apollo 11 Photography Index (70mm and 16mm) — frame-by-frame catalog of the returned imagery (MSC Mapping Sciences Lab, 1969).
• Apollo 11 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription — GOSS NET 1 transcript (1969).
• Apollo 11 Spacecraft Commentary (PAO) — the as-broadcast PAO mission narration (MSC, Jul 1969).
• Apollo 11 Onboard Voice Transcription (CM DSE) — the intra-cabin command-module recorder tape (NASA, Aug 1969).
• Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing — Volume 1 — crew’s first-person debrief: descent + surface EVA (MSC, Jul 31 1969).
• Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing — Volume 2 — same debrief: return phases, systems, human factors (MSC, Jul 31 1969).
• Apollo 11 Mission Report (MSC-00171) — the comprehensive official engineering-and-science report (MSC, Nov 1969).
• LROC NAC imagery of the Apollo 11 landing site — Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter view of the site (~25 cm/px, 2011).
• Apollo 11 Lunar Sample Compendium — 53 per-sample dossiers (C. Meyer, NASA JSC, 2009–2011).
• The Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment (Bender et al., 1973) — the PIs’ four-year report: LR³ origins, first returns, early science (Science, © AAAS).
• Lunar Laser Ranging: A Continuing Legacy (Dickey et al., 1994) — the 25-year LLR retrospective: lunar recession, relativity tests (Science, © AAAS).
• Biomedical Results of Apollo (NASA SP-368) — program-wide medical retrospective, mined for Apollo 11 (1975; text edition).
• Results from the Apollo Passive Seismic Experiment (Latham et al., 1977) — the PSE team’s network results: the quiet Moon, moonquakes, the molten core (NASA SP-370; text edition).
• Neil A. Armstrong — JSC Oral History (2001) — the commander’s retrospective interview (memory vs. record).

Analyses

Original syntheses that read across the whole collection. Full annotated list: ../analyses/README.md.

• The last three minutes — Eagle’s final approach across three voice records, measured against the 2011 LROC image.
• One moment, three records — the landing and the first step, side by side across three independent records.
• One hour, four layers — the EVA-prep overrun traced through the full procedural chain.
• Plan vs. actual — the moonwalk measured against its pre-flight script.
• Apollo 11 EVA — annotated master timeline — the minute-by-minute chronology of the first moonwalk.
• Anomalies and malfunctions register — every malfunction the Mission Report logged (§16), transcribed.
• Where did each rock actually come from? — a provenance biography of all 53 returned samples.
• Returned samples — master table — every Apollo 11 sample in one table.
• Tranquility Base photo-map — sampling zones and deployed hardware on the orbital image.
• The discrepancy ledger — where the primary record disagrees with itself.
• Memory vs. record — Armstrong’s 2001 oral history against the 1969 documents.
• What did Apollo 11 actually establish about the Moon? — the first-order scientific results, synthesized.
• Follow Apollo 11 in real time — a day-by-day anniversary companion (July 16–24).
• Reading the library: three guided paths — a guided tour through all 24 sources.
• Glossary — every acronym and term of art used across the wiki.