Read the excerpts from Team Moon and the NASA article
And only now a solid, panio-stricken, gut wrenching,
heart palpitating ten minutes by clock but feeling like an
etemity later did it sink in for John Coursen, Tom
Kelly, and a lot of the other Grumman folks who had
poured years of their lives into building the lunar
module: Their baby was on the moon. Let the cheering
begini
A reader can best combine the information in the
excerpts to
O understand the relief felt by the Grumman folks at
Mission control when the lunar module was safely on
the moon.
O understand what Aldrin and Armstrong did for two
and half hours after landing the lunar module on the
moon
understand the thrill of the lunar module's landing
from both the perspectives of mission control and the
astronauts
understand the moon landing from the perspectives
of people watching the events unfold on their home
televisions
Aldrin joins (Armstrong shortly, and offers a simple but
powerful description of the lunar surface magnificent
desolation. They explore the surface for two and a half
hours, collecting samples and taking photographs.