They are supposed to rest before the complicated rendezvous with Collins, who is circling the moon every two hours. But they can't. There is little heat in the paper-thin LM, and they shiver with cold. After less than a day on the lunar surface, it is time to go. Using its one small engine, the top part of the Eagle rises up.
Dust blows everywhere.
Aldrin posing for a photo Armstrong and Aldrin rendezvous with Collins in the Command Module. Once all three astronauts are back onboard Columbia , they release the Eagle . It falls away and crashes on the moon. Columbia then heads back towards Earth. Read our Privacy Policy Statement .