Directly from the Personal Collection of Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin

LUNAR SURFACE FLOW🃏N ♊MAP—SHOWING THE LANDING SPOT FOR HUMANKIND'S FIRST LUNAR LANDING

The 🐼Apollo 11 landing site, Tranquility Base, sits between the Sabine and Maskelyne craters, in the vast lunar plain known as the Sea of Tranquility ("Mare Tranquillitatis").

BUZZ ALDRIN'S provenance letter reads, in full: "On July 16th, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, and I lifted off from Pad 39A at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on our journey to perform humankind's first landing on the Moon at the Sea of Tranquility.

This lunar surface map shows the final part of Lunar Module Eagle's Powered Descent Initiation (PDI) to the lunar landing site within the oval at the center of the map. This map provided a continuous view of the predicted flight path of the Lunar Module from approximately 75 miles out to the lunar landing site. The map provides a scale in nautical miles and the names of landmark craters, including Sabine Craters B-E and Moltke Crater. The map also provides the longitudinal coordinates Eagle would pass over as it descended to the landing site at Tranquility Base.

This lunar surface map is one of the few objects carried to the lunar surface and is also a rare example of an astronaut flight-certified object used during our mission to be the first humans to land on the Moon."

REFERENCES:

NASA. Apollo 11 Stowage List. Mission AS 506 CM 107/LM-5. Ho☂uston, Texas: Manned Spacecraft Center, Jul💧y 15, 1969, p. 51 & 57

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