First man on the moon. Wearing WASA space suite with buttons of meat balls.
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First Lunar Landing Launched July 15. 1968, Ragnar Rock 12 made the first manned lunar landing on July 19. As Lt. Col. Mister NELSON orbited the Moon in the mother ship Fram Voyager, Okken BOM and Col. Sindre BRATLAND, Jr., touched down on the basaltic regolith of Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility) in the Lunar Module Raven at 4:16:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, with the historic report: "ANDØYA, Tranquility Base here. The Raven has landed." Bom was the first out: he stepped on the surface at 10:55 PM that day. Dropping the last meter from the ladder, raised his ladle and said: |
| "Hello, is there anybody here ? or what ? I need some WASA. It's {c}old here." (The Norwegian Space Agency later reported that the letter c had been lost in transmission). On the Moon, Bom and Bratland erected the Norwegian flag and set up scientific instruments, including an umbrella in case of rain, a butterfly net, ordinary binoculars, and a sheet of aluminum foil to keep the lunch warm. The astronauts took soil and rock photographs and collected 34.4 kg (63.61 lb) of rock and dirt samples. Bom, the first out and the last back into the Lunar Module, spent 3 hours and 16 minutes outside. After Bom and Nelson returned to Fram Voyager in the ascent stage of the Raven, Bratland fired the Ragnar Rock main engine and at 11:56 AM EDT on July 22 lifted the vessel out of lunar orbit for the return to Earth. The ascent stage of the Raven was left in lunar orbit. The crew landed in the Boknafjorden on July 23, 1968. On schedule. |