r 1 CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 Doing It Right CHAPTER 2 Part of a Team CHAPTER 3 Not Magic 12 CHAPTER 4 New Challenges 20 CHAPTER 5 A Pioneering Effort 24 Timeline Source Notes Glossary Further Information Index 8 9 8 8 8 X 8 29
Chapter 1 Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the moon DOING IT RIGHT Tt's July 20 1969 10 56 p m eastern daylight time About five hundred million television viewers are glued to their sets They are watching US astronaut and Apollo 11 mission commander Neil Armstrong step onto the moon He is the first
person in history to walk on the moon Astronaut Edwin Buzz Aldrin joins him twenty minutes later They plant a US flag on the moon's surface and gather samples of rock It took a woman to get them there EMERGENCY But the mission might have failed Earlier that night the lunar lander Eagle had been scheduled to set down on the moon Suddenly the flight software sent flashing warnings The system was overloaded with jobs to be done Tension in the Mission headquarters stayed in contact with the Apollo 11 astronauts during their lunar
