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The moonwalk

The two hours and thirty-one minutes on the surface — the event the whole library orbits, gathered here as one chapter: the suits and backpacks that made the crew self-contained, the cabin egress mechanics, how it felt to move in 1/6 g, the prioritized surface tasks (contingency sample first, then the flag, the TV, the experiments, and the rock boxes), and the contingency procedures held in reserve. This map draws on the operational sources — the Lunar Surface Operations Plan (what the crew would do outside) and the EVA Procedures (Final) (the cabin checklist and the failure cases) — and on the crew’s own retrospective in the Technical Crew Debriefing (what actually happened). The official Mission Report adds the consolidated outcome (~47 lb of samples, the planned-vs-actual timeline). For the descent that put the crew on the surface and the ascent that brought them off it, see Flight operations.