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[Apollo 11]

Chart of Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Site, Signed and Inscribed by Buzz Aldrin and CAPCOM Charlie Duke

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[Apollo 11]

Chart of Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Site, Signed and Inscribed by Buzz Aldrin and CAPCOM Charlie Duke.

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.


SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Lunar Module Pilot BUZZ ALDRIN, "TRANQUILLITY BASE [SIC]/ JULY 20-21, 1969/ BUZZ ALDRIN APOLLO XI" and Apollo 11 CAPCOM CHARLIE DUKE, "Roger, Tranquility, we copy you on the ground. You've got a / bunch of guys about to turn blue. / We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.' / CHARLES M. DUKE, JR. APOLLO XI CAPCOM." BUZZ ALDRIN has further marked the Apollo 11 landing site with an X.

A LUNAR CHART MARKED, SIGNED, AND INSCRIBED BY LMP BUZZ ALDRIN AND CAPCOM CHARLIE DUKE.


This 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 and marked near Charlie Duke's lengthy inscription.