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^ 'Houston . . .Tranquillity Base here.H Eagle has landed" Those were the firstH words from the lunar surface^ from commandf| pilot Neil Armstrong after the touchdown ons the moon.

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U.S. Leaves ItsMark in HistoryAs

NEIL A. ARMSTRONG

ASTRONAUT NEIL ARMSTRONG BECOMES THE FIRST MAN TO SET FOOT UPON THE MOON.S&S Photo

EDWIN E. ALDRIN JR.

SEA OF TRANQUILLITY,The Moon (AP)-—Man landedand walked on the moonSunday, July 20, 1969.

Two Americans, Neil A.Armstrong and Edwin E. AI-drin Jr., 240,000 miles fromtheir home on the planetEarth, settled to a dusty land-ing on the moon's alien soilat 4:18 p.m. EDT and somesix hours later Armstrong

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made the first footprint onthat strange globe.

In a bulky suit that gavehim the life-sustaining en-vironment of his planet,Armstrong climbed labori-ously down the nine steps ona ladder at the side of hisspaceship.

Armstrong's first wordson the moon were:

"That's one small step forman. One giant leap formankind".

Aldrin, his companion onthis trek of history, waitedinside the ship Eagle to

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watch Armstrong's progress be-fore venturing down himself.

They had been impatient to beout—to complete man's ancientdream. They asked, and re-ceived permission, to maketheir walk early.

Eagle landed on the moon at4:18 p.m. EOT while MichaelCollins—in the mother ship thatbrought them-~continued to gir-dle the moon awaiting their reu-nion 22 hours later.

"Houston," Armstrong's voicecalled out in the first humancommunication from the mOon."Tranquillity Base here. TheEagle has landed."

"Fantastic," said Collins onhis lonely orbital perch some 69miles above.

Later Aldrin sent a message"to ask every person listening,wherever they may be, to pausefor a moment and contemplatethe events of the past few hours

MICHAEL COLLINS'Don't forget me'

and to give thanks in his or herown way."

As-Eagle neared the surfaceof the moon, Armstrong sawthat the computerized automat-ic pilot was sending the fragileship toward a field scatteredwith rocks and boulders in theprojected landing site on themoon's Sea of Tranquillity,

He grabbed control of hisship, sent it clear of the areawhere it would have met almostcertain disaster, and landedfour miles beyond the originallanding point.

It was a costly maneuver. Itcut the available fuel short.When it landed Eagle had bare-ly 49 seconds worth of hoveringrocket fuel left, less than half ofthe 114 seconds Worth it wassupposed to have.

When they began to descendto the moon, Armstrong's heartwas beating at 110 throbs aminute. When they touched onthe moon's surface it had boost-'*ed to 156. Less than 45 minuteslater it had calmed to 90, about20 beats a minute above normal.

The landfall on the moon wasthe fruition of a national goaldeclared by the late PresidentJohn F. Kennedy. The fulfil l-ment cost $24 billion.

"The auto targeting was tak-ing us right into a football fieldsized crater with a large num-ber of big boulders and rocks,"Armstrong said. "And it re-quired us to fly manually overthe rock field to find a reasona-bly good area."

They landed just north of themoon's equator. In the originallanding site, Armstrong saidthere were "extremely roughcraters and a large number ofrocks. Many of them were larg-er than 10 feet."

The world thrilled to the mo-ment. London's T r a f a l g a rSquare rang with cheers andscreams of delight.

At New York City's KennedyAirport, 2,500 clustered aroundtelevision screens at the Inter-national Arrivals Building. Andat Yankee Stadium, 35,000 fanswatching the Yankees and Sena-tors saw the news on the score-board: "They're on the moon."Everything stopped as the sta-dium filled with cheers. Thenthey fell silent, for a moment ofprayer, then sang "America theBeautiful."

President Nixon, who willspeak to the astronauts later bytelephone while they walk theface of the moon, said their

feat "will stand through theCenturies as one supreme inhuman experience and profoundin its meaning of generationsto come."

The chief executive, after re-ligious services in the EastRoom of the White House, setup a "moon watch" to personal-ly keep tab on man's first ven-ture into another world.

Outside her flag-draped brickColonial home in Wapakoneta,Ohio, where Armstrong wasborn and learned to fly, hismother, Mrs. Stephen Arm-strong said, "I hope it will befor the good of all mankind."

Immediately after Eagletouched down, mission controldropped the radio call sign Ea-gle and referred to the Ameri-cans on the moon as Tranquilli-ty Base.

The first hour was full of de-scriptions of sights no one hadever seen before.

"From the surface," Aldrinreported, "we could not see anystars out of the window. But outof the overhead hatch, I'm look-ing at the earth, big, round andbeautiful."

Just after landing, missioncontrol called up, "Be advisedthere are lots of smiling faceshere and all around the world."

"There are two up here also,"Armstrong beamed back.

"Don't forget the third one uphere," added Collins from theorbiting command ship.

Then he added his compli-ments. "Tranquillity Base, youguys did a fantastic job," hesaid.

"Just keep that orbiting baseup there for us," said Arm-strong on the moon.

"We are in a relativelysmooth plain with many cratersfive to 50 feet in size," Arm-strong said. "We see someridges. And there are literallythousands of little one and two-foot craters. We see some angu-lar blocks some feet in front ofus, about two-to-three feet insize.

"There's a hill in view on theground track ahead of us. It'sdifficult to estimate, but itmight be one-half mile or a mileaway." Normally, the lunar nor-"

Luna Is Close-But No Cigar

JODRELL BANK, England(AP) — The Soviet Luna 15 dar-ted near the moon Sunday in amaneuver Jodrell Bank scien-tists said could only mean theunmanned probe was bent on re-connaissance during the Apollo11 mission or was preparing toland.

Observatory Director Sir Ber-nard Lovell said that after Luna15 had carried out two coursecorrections, its mean altitudewas 40 miles above the lunarsurface.

In Moscow, the Soviet newsagency Tas.s said Luna 15 waswithin 10 miles of the moon atits lowest point. Tass said theprobe was functioning normallyin its scientific exploration of lu-nar space.

The startling development leftastronomers at Jodrell Bank,the West's main vantage pointduring Soviet space shots, un-certain immediately of its impli-cations.

Lovell said Luna's new orbit

meant it was possibly on acourse over the Apollo landingsite in the Sea of Tranquillity.

He said the orbit was so closeto the moon that the Russianscould not expect to leave Lunain it for a long period.

But he repeated that the chan-ces of Luna's interfering withApollo were negligible.

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Ted Faces Charges for Leaving SceneCompiled From AP iind UPI

EDGARTOWN, Mass. — Sen.Edward M. Kennedy rested un-der a doctor's care Sunday, fac-ing charges of leaving the sceneof a fatal automobile accident inthe latest blow to the tragedy-'plagut'd Kennedy family .

Killed in the plunge of the sen-ator's car into a saltwater pondhere late Friday night or earlySaturday was pre t ty blondeMary Jo Kopeehne, 29, a formermember of the .staff of assassi-nated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy,Edward Kennedy's brother.

The accident was not reportedfor about nine hours.

The senator was in seclusionat the family compound inHyannis Port, across NantucketSound from this picturesque is-land vacation resort.

The fami ly physician, Dr.Robert D. Wat t , said Kennedyhad suffered a "slight con-cussion" at the back of the headand had been given a sedative toease the pain.

"1 am f i r m l y convinced there

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was no negligence involved,"Police Chief Dominie J. Arenatold newsmen Sunday. "But thematter of the t ime period afterthe accident — there is, in myopinion, a violation concerninggoing from the scene, leavingthe scene."

Arena said he would seek aformal complaint Monday in Ed-gartown District Court . He saidKennedy would have 24 hours inwhich to request a hearing. If nosuch request is forthcoming,Arena said, a summons will beissued automatically.

Kennedy could be fined $200,lose his license for tv;o years orbe sentenced to two years injai l , or all three.

Miss Kopeehne had worked fora f i rm of political consultants inWashington.

The 5-foot-4 blonde shared anapartment in Washington withNancy Lyons, a member of thesenator's s t a f f . Wi th seven othergirls .she attended a reunion par-ty for former members of Rob-ert Kennedy's s taf f on Chap-paquiddiek Island at a cottage

rented by Joe Gargan, a cousinof Kennedy.

After the party, Kennedy wasgiving Miss Kopeehne a ride tothe two-ear ferry, an outboard-powered barge which makes itslast three-minute trip across anarrow channel at mid-night.

According to a statement hegave police, Kennedy was "un-familiar with the road andturned right on Dock Road in-stead of bearing hard left onMain Street" and a half-mile lat-er "descended a hill and cameupon a narrow bridge. The carwent off the side of the bridge."

Arena was called by a sum-mer resident who was told bytwo boys they had spotted a carin Poeha Pond. When he ar-r ived, he changed into a bathingsuit and dived several times tosee if there was anyone in thecar.

"But there was a strong tidalcurrent which exhausted me,and I th ink I'm a pretty goodswimmer," Arena said.

Arena called for f ire depart-ment divers, and John Farrarfound Miss Kopechne's body in

the back, face up against thefloor. "I surmised that she wentup with the last bit of air," Far-rar said. A medical examinerruled death was due to acciden-tal drowning.

While Arena was at thebridge, he was told that Kenne-dy had come to the police sta-tion.

Kennedy was accompanied byGargan and Paul F. Markham,former United States attorney inBoston. He stayed about threehours and flew back to HyannisPort.

Arena said Kennedy was insuch a state of shock that "hedidn't tell the people he cameover with" about Miss Ko-pechne's death.

One of the f i rs t things thatKennedy did a f te r he realizedwhat happened was call MissKopechne's parents. The girl'sfather , Joseph Kopeehne, an in-surance man, said his wife col-lapsed on hearing the news.

The senator's 80-year-old fa-ther , Joseph P. Kennedy, an in-valid since a 1901 stroke, wastoo ill to be told of the latesttragedy, f ami ly sources said.

izon could be as much as twomiles away.

When he heard his fellowcrewmen on the moon describ-ing the scene around them, Col-lins interrupted to say, "Soundslike it looks better than it didyesterday. It looked rough as acob then."

"The targeted area was veryrough," Armstrong told him."There were many large boul-ders and craters there."

"When in doubt," Collins said,"land long."

"So we did," Armstrong re-plied.

The sun appeared to alter thecolor of the rocks around them.Aldrin said, "Almost every var-iety of rock you could find. Thecolor varies/depending on howyou're looking at it. Doesn't ap-pear to be much of a generalcolor at all."

The voices of Armstrong andAldrin were always tightly un-der control despite the excite-ment of the moment.

Even during the powered de-scent, they read off their alti-tude figures with the dispatch ofa broker reading stock marketquotations. The descent rocketburned for some 12 minutes, thecontrols in Armstrong's righthand, as Eagle followed the longarc over the lunar surface andcame clown like a hovering heli-copter,

Just after landing, there wasa busy silence while the menquickly set up the spacecraft foran emergency takeoff if neces-sary. The first minutes were de-voted to making the decisionwhether to stay.

The dust was still settling.The rocket kicked up clouds ofdust from the moment itreached a point 40 feet over thelunar surface.

The men on Tranquillity Base,accustomed to the weightlessstate of space flight, were sud-denly subjected to the moon'sgravity, one-sixth as strong asearth's. They felt as though theyweighed about 30 pounds. Theysaid they didn't think there wasany difficulty adapting to it.

At a news conference at theManned Spacecraft Center, Dr.Thomas 0. Paine, head of thespace agency, told newsmen:

"We have clearly entered anew era. The voices we hearcoming back from these bravemen are hard to believe. But it'strue. It's raised spirits of menaround the world."

When the astronauts begantheir dangerous descent at 3:09p.m., Eagle was coming aroundthe backside of the moon for the14th time. "Everything is goingalong just swimmingly," saidCollins in the command ship.

His spaceship acted as a com-munications relay when therewas some temporary d i f f icu l tytalking to the astronauts in Ea-gle.

Before that, they separatedfrom Columbia, and they wereon their own.

"The Eagle has wings," re-ported Armstrong.

After landing, the astronautsimmediately began preparingfor an emergency l i f to f f . Butthat procedure ended when mis-sion control assured them thatEagle was healthy and able tospend at least two more hourson the lunar surface,

Armstrong and Aldrin con-ducted a simulated countdownto l i f t o f f , as planned, until theyreceived the go-ahead to stay.

The spacemen then took offtheir helmets and gloves andstarted eating man's first mealon the moon. Eagle's larder in-eluded a choice of breakfast-style and dinner-style food. Thespacemen didn't say which theyselected.