“Contact light. Okay. Engines stop.” Buzz Aldrin followed this with the string of procedures he and Armstrong were carrying out, “safe-ing” the vehicle. “We copy you down, Eagle,” Duke said. “Houston, Tranquility base here,” Neil Armstrong announced. “The Eagle has landed.” “Roger, Tranquility, we copy you on the ground. You’ve got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We’re breathing again. Thanks a lot.” Even as CapCom was saying to Eagle, “We copy you down,” Kranz was already on the loop to the controllers: “Okay everybody. T1, stand by for T1.”
