[APOLLO 11]. LUNAR SURFACE OPERATIONS PLAN, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY BUZZ ALDRIN AND MICHAEL COLLINS

APOLLO 11 STEP BY STEP PLANS FOR SURFACE EXPLORATION

INCLUDES THE PROCEDURE TO COLLECT THE FIRST LUNAR SOIL SAMPLE

Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Operations Plan, Final Edition. Houston, TX: NASA/MSC, June 27, 1969. vii, 184 pp. Diagrams and charts with 4 folded tables. 10 ½ by 8 inches. Card stock covers, punched and stapled.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED “BUZZ ALDRIN | APOLLO XI” and "MICHAEL COLLINS | CMP APOLLO XI" (front cover)

The present document details not only the nominal (expected) procedures for man’s first moonwalk, or Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA), but such contingencies as if only one astronaut could perform the exploration, for either a full 2 hours and 40 minutes or only a 49 minute minimum time period. Some 60 pages and two fold-out tables cover the nominal EVA, with some 25 pages and two additional fold-out tables scripting the other possibilities. Tasks such as physical movement on the surface, television deployment, photography, spacecraft inspection, lunar geology, experiment deployment, and EVA termination are extensively described. Perhaps most important from a science and human perspective was the return of lunar material, the procedure for which is described in detail.