# Descent, landing, and final approach

Topic: Apollo 11 Tapes
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Updated: 2026-07-12T16:38:32.151Z

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#### Card #02: Descent, landing, and final approach

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- Topic: Apollo 11 Tapes
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Summary:

This group holds the landing-side material: long landing film, final approach footage, the five-minute lunar landing extract, and spacecraft operation clips that set up the LM/CSM sequence. Read this as the technical app

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This group holds the landing-side material: long landing film, final approach footage, the five-minute lunar landing extract, and spacecraft operation clips that set up the LM/CSM sequence.

Read this as the technical approach layer. It is useful for questions about descent timing, camera perspective, mission sequence, and how NASA packaged the landing moment for public review.

NASA source context: the Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal video library places the landing film and spacecraft film in mission-time order and ties clips back to journal text entries. The undocking and transposition/docking material belongs in the same chain because it frames the spacecraft configuration before lunar surface operations.

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Attachments:
- Video A: A11Landing.mov; video/quicktime; 15.7 MB; 15:59. View: https://conspirograph.com/api/assets/2/view Download: https://conspirograph.com/api/assets/2/download
- Video B: AP11_FINAL_APPROACH.wmv; video/x-ms-wmv; 9.45 MB; 4:31. View: https://conspirograph.com/api/assets/3/view Download: https://conspirograph.com/api/assets/3/download
- Video C: Apollo_11_Lunar_Landing_5min.avi; video/x-msvideo; 76.0 MB; 5:00. View: https://conspirograph.com/api/assets/7/view Download: https://conspirograph.com/api/assets/7/download
- Video D: a11_16mm_undock.mpg; video/mpeg; 88.8 MB; 7:48. View: https://conspirograph.com/api/assets/15/view Download: https://conspirograph.com/api/assets/15/download
- Video E: a11_transpose_dock.mpg; video/mpeg; 53.4 MB; 4:41. View: https://conspirograph.com/api/assets/16/view Download: https://conspirograph.com/api/assets/16/download