They rested for a while. Then they began to prepare to launch the lander for the return flight to the orbiting command module.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Engineers on the ground designed a way the astronauts could connect air-cleaning devices from the command module to the air system in the lunar module.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

The crew moved back to the command module a few hours before landing.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

The temperature inside the lunar module was only a few degrees above freezing.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Equipment was hanging from a huge hole in the side of the module.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

The lunar module had a few devices for removing carbon dioxide.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

The astronauts survived by rationing water and food while using the lunar lander as a lifeboat before returning to the command module for re-entry to Earth.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

The U.S.Moon mission came on July 16,1969, when Armstrong, along with astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, climbed into Apollo 11's command module called Columbia atop a gigantic Saturn V rocket and blasted off.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16