While the spacecraft moves farther and farther from Earth, the lunar landing craft, code-named Eagle is unpacked from its compartment atop the launch rockets. The astronauts first fire some explosive bolts. By dumping its leftover fuel the third rocket stage is fired into a long solar orbit to remove it from Apollo 11's path. With the flight on schedule and proceeding satisfactorily, the first scheduled midcourse correction is considered unnecessary. The spacecraft is reported 22,000 nautical miles from Earth and traveling at 12,914 feet per second.
Crew members keep busy with housekeeping duties.
Because of the pull of Earth's gravity, the spacecraft has slowed to 7,279 feet per second at a distance of 63,880 nautical miles from Earth.