Free Astronomy Magazine May-June 2019

22 MAY-JUNE 2019 ASTRONAUTICS point of perilune would have trav- eled the equatorial area where the candidate landing sites were lo- cated, documenting each in ideal lighting. In addition, since the sites deed, it was decided to adopt an inclination of 11 degrees, with the perilune of the first orbiter located south of the equator, the second north and the third inclined as nec- were spread over a 300-km-wide strip, it was necessary to tilt the trajectory with respect to the lunar equator to pass on the sites close to the periphery of the strip. In- A POLLO 11 − Panorama from Apollo 11 showing Neil Armstrong at the LM, with the US flag and Solar Wind Experiment at left. [NASA, Project Apollo Archive]