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When Scott tried to release the lunar module, he did not hold the button long enough so the lander got hung on the capture latches.
LM in lunar landing configuration. Photographed from CM
McDivitt & Schweickart show Spider’s landing gear to Scott before they pull away
LM ascent stage photographed from the CM
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Milt Windier’s team at mission control quickly reviewed the status of the remaining four engines, ran the computations for the new engine cutoff times, and passed them to the crew.
POGO. Experienced on the S-II stage of Apollo 13
Saturn V, S-II stage, engine cluster
Docking with the Lunar Module
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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.
Solar corona of the Moon as first seen by Apollo 11 crew
Lunar orbit insertion
Tucson Daily Citizen newspaper July 19, 1969
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What do we call this strange region between earth and moon? Cislunar space is the most common term, Is it day or night? Humans generally define night as that time when our planet is between our eyes and the sun, so this must be considered constant daytime, But it looks like night out of Command Module’s windows.
The Earth viewed form Apollo 11 during cislunar coast
Entering the Lunar Module for checkout
Buzz Aldrin in the Lunar Module
