surface and gather soil samples what's believed to have crashed into a mountain on july 21st. on the afternoon of july 19th apollo 11 swung into lunar orbit and the crew started making preparations for their descent to the moon surface. after the janet armstrong hoped for the best. set for later afternoon on july 20th armstrong and buzz aldrin now entered the eagle lunar lander and separated from the columbia command module. armstrong steered the lunar module standing up the vehicle had no seats to cut down on wait. astronauts families followed the flight on t.v. . suddenly the modules guidance computer set off