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The site for the first manned lunar landing mission had been made from a combination of both geological and orbital mechanics factors. All the Apollo landing sites would be along the lunar equator. Possible locations for these landing sites had been photographed by orbiting probes and the mapping cameras on Apollo 8 and Apollo 10. The selection of sites was narrowed down to five possible locations. The first of the five selected was in the dark-colored Mare Tranquillitatis. The specific landing site selected for Apollo 11 was approximately 25 km southeast of the Surveyor 5 landing site.
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Young, A. (2017). Apollo Lunar Landing Missions 11, 12, and 14. In: The Apollo Lunar Samples. SpringerBriefs in Space Development. Praxis, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6185-2_4
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