Rare Apolo 11 astronauts real autograph + 40th Ann book

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This an unique oportunity to buy an original and real Apollo 11 crew 3 astronauts autograph. In the 40th anniversary of the first man land on the Moon you can also get the memoralia book to conmemorate the aniversary with 110 pages in full collour. This auction ends 20 July 2009 at 20:17 UTC (12:17 PDT) 40 years later of the first man landed on the moon. This auction is for both the Apollo 11 crew 3 astronauts autograph framed and the book MAN ON THE MOON 40th Anniversary made by BBC Shipping worldwide. Listen /wiki/File:Frase_de_Neil_Armstrong.ogg speech from Neil Armstrong : At 2:56 on, Armstrong made his descent to the Moon's surface and spoke his famous line " That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind " exactly six and a half hours after landing. The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon . It was the fifth human spaceflight of Project Apollo and the third human voyage to the Moon. It was also the second all-veteran crew in manned spaceflight history. Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong , Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr . On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited above. On July 20, 1969 the lunar module (LM) Eagle separated from the command module Columbia . Collins, alone aboard Columbia , inspected Eagle as it pirouetted before him to ensure the craft was not damaged. As the descent began, Armstrong and Aldrin found that they were passing landmarks on the surface 4 seconds early and reported they were "long". They would land miles west of their target point. The LM navigation and guidance computer distracted the crew with several unusual program alarms. Inside Mission Control Center in Houston , Texas , computer engineer Jack Garman told guidance officer Steve Bales it was safe to continue the descent and this was relayed to the crew. When Armstrong again looked outside, he saw that the computer's landing target was in a boulder strewn area just north and east of a 400 meter diameter crater (later determined to be "West crater", named for its location in the western part of the originally planned landing ellipse). Armstrong took semi-automatic control and with Aldrin calling out altitude and velocity data, landed at 20:17 UTC on July 20 with about 25 seconds of fuel left. The program alarms were called executive overflows , during which the computer could not process all of its tasks in real time and had to postpone some of them. [This was neither a computer error nor an astronaut error, but stemmed from a mistake in how the astronauts had been trained. Although unneeded for the landing, the rendezvous radar was intentionally turned on to make ready for a fast abort. Ground simulation setups had not foreseen that a fast stream of spurious interrupts from this radar could happen, depending upon how the hardware randomly powered up before the LM then began nearing the lunar surface: Hence the computer had to deal with data from two radars, not the landing radar alone, which led to the overload. Although Apollo 11 landed with less fuel than other missions, they also encountered a premature low fuel warning. It was later found to be caused by the lunar gravity permitting greater propellant 'slosh' which had uncovered a fuel sensor. On future missions extra baffles were added to the tanks. Buzz Aldrin spoke the first words (albeit technical jargon) from the LM on the lunar surface. Throughout the descent Aldrin had called out navigation data to Armstrong, who was busy piloting the LM. As Eagle landed Aldrin said, "Contact light! Okay, engine stop. ACA - out of detent ." Armstrong acknowledged "Out of detent" and Aldrin continued, "Mode control - both auto. Descent engine command override off. Engine arm - off. 413 is in." Then Armstrong said the famous words, "Houston, Tranquility ... read more

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