Apollo 11 - Landing site chart - signed

Julius Caesar, Lunar Shaded Relief – LSR 60. Defense Mapping Agency for NASA. Includes a detailed legend and gridded full sphere lunar near side map locator image at bottom left hand corner. First edition, September 1978. 22 by 29 inches, scale 1:1,000,000.

INSCRIBED and SIGNED: "First Lunar Landing, July 20, 1969, BUZZ ALDRIN." He has marked the Apollo 11 landing site with a large "X."

The chart illustrates approximately half of Mare Tranquillitatis with numerous large and small craters, including the ones Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin used to navigate to their lunar landing. Other features shown are wrinkled ridges and highland areas to the west of the Apollo 11 landing site which is located near the bottom center of the chart.

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