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In exactly one hour, at 7:56 Tucson time, Neil will have taken his first step on the Moon exactly 50 years ago. You have an hour to get ready for this momentus event!

In total, Neil and Buzz collected over 20 kg of lunar samples over just about 2 hours 15 minutes outside the Lunar Module.

While on the Moon they deployed EASEP (an early version of ALSEP), which detected moonquakes and had a retroreflector.

Okay. Coherent thoughts. I can write coherent tweets. Live streams of 50 years ago just reached the lunar landing. It's a couple hours still until Armstrong takes the first step. 'Eagle is at Tranquility'

Armstrong: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." #Apollo11 #Apollo50

Aldrin (Eagle): "CONTACT LIGHT." #Apollo11 #Apollo50

CAPCOM: "Eagle, Houston. You're GO for landing. Over." Aldrin (Eagle): "Roger. Understand. GO for landing." #Apollo11 #Apollo50

Watch this for a live video stream! twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Apollo 11. What a magnificent day. And I wasn't even alive for it.

This is about the time to head over to @apollo_50th for their recount of the landing!