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[Apollo 11]

The Flight Path of the First Lunar Landing, Extensively Inscribed by Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin and CAPCOM Charlie Duke

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[Apollo 11]

Apollo Translunar / Transearth Trajectory Plotting Chart (ATT), Apollo Mission 11. June 23, 1969. Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, USAF for NASA. 24 by 20 inches. Two sections of notes are located at the lower left and right corners providing a flight time summary based on the July 16 launch date.


INSCRIBED and SIGNED by BUZZ ALDRIN in BLUE ink: "Our Road Map to the First Lunar Landing! / BUZZ ALDRIN, LMP."

ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED and SIGNED by CHARLIE DUKE in BLUE ink: “Eagle, Houston – / We read you now./ You’re go for PDI…/ You’re go for landing… /We copy you down, Eagle. /CHARLES M. DUKE, Jr. / Apollo 11 CAPCOM” between the translunar and transearth trajectory lines.

"OUR ROAD MAP TO THE FIRST LUNAR LANDING" SIGNED BY TWO MOONWALKERS: BUZZ ALDRIN AND APOLLO 11 CAPCOM CHARLIE DUKE, JR.


An elegant visual representation of the flight to the Moon and back made by the Apollo 11 crew on their historic mission. The Earth is at the center and viewed looking down at the North Pole. Each of the concentric circles drawing outward from the center mark 50,000 miles and demonstrate the distance between the Earth and the Moon. The Moon's position is accurately plotted for July and August 1969. Each integral chapter of the voyage is shown on the chart, including launch from Earth, translunar injection, lunar and Earth coast phases, lunar orbit insertion, lunar landing, lunar liftoff, and transearth injection for their return home.


Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot (LMP), became the second person to walk on the Moon with Commander Neil Armstrong when they landed at Tranquility Base on the lunar surface in July, 1969. Charlie Duke, as referenced in his inscription, served as CAPCOM on the Apollo 11 mission from Mission Control in Houston, Texas. Duke himself would later become the youngest person to walk on the Moon as the the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972.