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National Geographic : 1969 Dec
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Across a rocky crater to touchdown ARTIST'S re-creation of Eagle's drama-filled descent depicts the craft at 200 feet above the lunar surface. Descent-stage engine con trols speed downward and forward; reaction-control jets are fired to change the LM's attitude. Armstrong at the controls looked out his window at the projected tar get site and saw a crater strewn with boulders as big as automobiles. In creasing forward speed to 55 miles an hour, he cleared this crater and a smaller one before landing gently on level ground 200 feet beyond. Had Armstrong not taken control to guide the craft past the hazardous craters, Eagle might have overturned or smashed on alighting. 10 FEET One of Eagle's footpads, with its lancelike probe, casts a shadow on the moon. Dust stirred up by the engine blurs surface features just before touchdown. r-IIl* run NIVHIIVNMHeL UtVbnsenaK , r UT YKt MIuN LJ N.9.5. rKTACRC,MF NaSA 765
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