Subject: media inquiry about Apollo 11 |
From: "Meghan Ashford-Grooms" <mashford-grooms@statesman.com> |
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:08:27 -0600 |
To: Meghan Ashford-Grooms <mashford-grooms@statesman.com> |
Meghan
Technically, the first utterance would have been Aldrin saying "Contact light" which occurred when one of the probes projecting from the foot pads of three of the landing legs made contact with the surface - if you consider that to be the moment of landing.
dmh