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Posted on August 2, 2017

As they passed behind the moon, they had just over 8 minutes to go before the burn. They were super-careful now, they checked and rechecked each step several times. It had to be perfect. Just one digit in the computer out of place could send them into a lunar mountain or turn them and send them into orbit around the sun.

3-Newspaper

2-Lunar Orbit Insertion

1-Solar corona of the moon as first seen by apollo 11