Volume 15, August, 1969 International, Page 23499
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Aug 1969 - The Return to Earth.
At 1.54 p.m. on July 21, after having slept and rested for many hours following the exertion of the moon walk, Mr. Armstrong and Colonel Aldrin fired the ascent engine of “Eagle” and blasted off the moonon which they had been for 21 hours 37 minutesto effect a rendezvous with “Columbia,” which with Lieut.-Colonel Collins at the controls had remained in lunar orbit throughout the mission. Taking a long spiral path, the rendezvous was effected at 5.35 p.m., and a few minutes later the astronauts were once more radioing Houston as “Apollo,” indicating that the link-up between “Eagle” and “Columbia” had been successfully carried out. There had, however, apparently been a temporary difficulty in carrying out the docking manoeuvre, as mission control heard Colonel Collins in “Columbia...

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