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Tranquility Park

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Tranquility Park
Tranquility Park
Tranquility Park
Tranquility Park
Tranquility Park
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Tranquility Park
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Tranquility Park
Tranquility Park
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Tranquility Park
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Tranquility Park
Tranquility Park
Phone:
+1 832-395-7000

Hours:
Sunday7am - 8:45pm
Monday7am - 8:45pm
Tuesday7am - 8:45pm
Wednesday7am - 8:45pm
Thursday7am - 8:45pm
Friday7am - 8:45pm
Saturday7am - 8:45pm


Tranquility Base is the site on the Moon where, in 1969, humans landed and walked on another celestial body for the first time. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 crewmembers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Apollo Lunar Module Eagle at approximately 20:17:40 UTC. Six hours later, the two astronauts exited the spacecraft and spent 2 hours 31 minutes on the lunar surface, examining and photographing it, setting up some scientific experiment packages, and collecting 47.5 pounds of dirt and rock samples for return to Earth. They lifted off the surface on July 21 at 17:54 UTC. Tranquility Base has remained unvisited since then. Its lunar coordinates are 00°41′15″N, 23°26′00″E, in the south-western corner of the lunar lava-plain called Mare Tranquillitatis , east of the craters Sabine and Ritter, north of the crater Moltke, and near a rille called Rimae Hypatia, but unofficially called U.S. 1.
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