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[i]In retrospect touchdown was for me the single most striking point of achievement in the flight. Lift-off was the next most striking. I thought quite a bit about that single ascent engine and how much depended upon it.[/i]
[i]In my view, the emotional moment was the landing. That was human contact with the moon, the landing... It was at the time when we landed that we were there, we were in the lunar environment, the lunar gravity. That, in my view, was…the emotional high. And the business of getting down the ladder to me was much less significant.[/i]
[i]What pilot takes pride in stepping down from his vehicle?[/i]
[i]Course, the first statement we made was "The Eagle has landed... Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed." And that was the signature line for achieving the presidential goal that we had been working for a decade on. And in our view that was a very important statement. Getting down on... that was less important in our view, but it was significant to actually touch your boot into the sand and recognize that it's okay to stand there.[/i]
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