Impressive original news teletype roll covering the exact moment of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, measuring 8.5" x 60", prominently stamp-dated at the top, "July 20, 1969," and hand-annotated, "4:17:42 P.M. EDT." The roll's reporting begins, "Flash: Mooncraft begins final descent to moon," and chronicles the descent sequence, in part: "Houston—The Eagle astronauts are descending to the moon. The final descent began when Neil Armstrong and Ed Aldrin fired their braking rocket for the second time. This sent the Eagle in its descent to the landing surface, the contemplated end of a perfect flight mission…Two minutes and 20 seconds into the burn, Mission Control reported everything looking good…As Aldrin took the throttle away from the computer and began flying manually, he commented: 'Throttles down better than the simulator'…Flash: Eagle told to go for landing…Flash: Touchdown on the Moon…Repeat Flash: Touchdown on the Moon." In very good to fine condition, with several horizontal folds and uniform toning.
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