The Faber Book Of Science (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
(Houston time) on 20 July 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong sent back to the Manned Spacecraft Center at Houston, Texas, the message ‘The Eagle has landed’, indicating that the lunar module from the Apollo 11 Spacecraft had touched down on the moon, in the area known as the Sea of Tranquillity. Armstrong’s heart rate at touchdown had risen to 156 beats a minute. The landing was the culmination of a 24 billion dollar space programme – money that critics protested should have been spent on reducing world poverty. Recalling the approach to the moon, Armstrong said:The most dramatic recollections I had were the sights themselves. Of all the spectacular views we had, the most impressive to me was on the way to the moon, when we flew through the shadow. We were still thousands of miles away, but close enough so that the moon almost filled our circular window. It was eclipsing the sun, from our position, and the corona of the sun was visible around the limb of the moon as a gigantic lens-shaped or saucer-shaped light, stretching out to several lunar diameters.
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