Apollo 11

The first crewed lunar landing (July 1969). This map ties together the mission’s spacecraft, the descent and surface activity, the deployed science, the returned samples, and the communications record — as documented by the twenty-four ingested sources (the Lunar Surface Operations Plan, the Apollo 11 Flight Plan, the Press Kit, the EVA Procedures, the EASEP Handbook, the Preliminary Science Report, the Lunar Sample Information Catalogue, the GOSS NET 1 voice transcript, the onboard voice transcription, the two-volume Technical Crew Debriefing, the Apollo 11 Mission Report, a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter image of the landing site, the Lunar Sample Compendium of per-sample dossiers, the Allton catalog of lunar-surface sampling tools, the Apollo 11 photography index, the PAO spacecraft commentary, the LM Lunar Surface and Systems Activation checklists, the two lunar-laser-ranging retrospectives from Science, the program-wide Biomedical Results of Apollo, Armstrong’s 2001 JSC oral history, and the Latham team’s Apollo PSE results paper).

Concepts

• Apollo 11 mission — overview, crew, vehicles, objectives, timeline.
• Lunar Module Eagle — the LM (LM‑5) that landed.
• Command and Service Module Columbia — the CSM (CSM‑107) and return vehicle.
• Tranquility Base (Landing Site 2) — the landing location in Mare Tranquillitatis.
• LROC imaging of the Apollo 11 landing site — the descent stage, experiment packages, and bootprint trails seen from orbit.
• Powered descent and landing — the 1202 alarms, “CONTACT LIGHT,” and “THE EAGLE HAS LANDED.”
• Apollo 11 EVA (first moonwalk) — “one small step” and the surface tasks.
• Apollo 11 EVA planned vs. actual timeline — per-task planned vs. actual times (Mission Report Table 11-I) and the schedule divergences.
• Apollo 11 nominal mission timeline — the Flight Plan’s GET-tagged “as-planned” schedule.
• Apollo 11 EVA life-support and mobility equipment — the PGA/PLSS/OPS suit-and-backpack system.
• Apollo 11 contingency EVA procedures — one-man EVA, repress failure, and orbital transfer EVA.
• Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP) — the deployed instruments.
• Lunar sample collection and containers — contingency, bulk, and documented samples.
• Apollo 11 sampling tools and containers — the scoop, tongs, core tubes, hammer, rock boxes, and sealed containers.
• Lunar quarantine and back-contamination — BIGs, MQF, LRL, 21‑day quarantine.
• GOSS NET 1 air-to-ground communications — the technical voice channel and its conventions.
• Television broadcast and surface communications — how the moonwalk was seen and heard on Earth (slow-scan TV over the unified S-band).
• Ceremonial and symbolic surface activities — the plaque, the flag, and the call from the President.
• Lunar ascent and rendezvous — lift-off, the climb to orbit, and rendezvous/docking with Columbia.

Reference

• Apollo 11 glossary — a lookup page for every acronym and term of art used across the wiki.

Related topics

• Flight operations
• The moonwalk
• Apollo lunar surface experiments
• Lunar geology and samples
• Communications and the public record
• Planning, procedures, and training