A reader can best combine the information in the excerpts to
O understand the relief felt by the Grumman folks at
Read the excerpts from Team Moon and the NASA
article.
And only now-a solid, panic-stricken, gut-wrenching,
heart-palpitating ten minutes by clock but feeling like
an eternity 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
begin!
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.
O understand the thrill of the lunar module's landing
from both the perspectives of mission control and the
astronauts.
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.
O understand the moon landing from the perspectives
of people watching the events unfold on their home
televisions.