[Apollo 11] — Apollo Translunar/Transearth Trajectory Plotting Chart. Signed and inscribed by Buzz Aldrin

[Apollo 11]

Apollo Translunar /Transearth Trajectory Plotting Chart (ATT), Apollo Mission 11. Prepared under the Direction of the Department of Defense by the Aeronautical Chart of Information Center, United States Air Force for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Manned Spacecraft Center, Mapping Sciences Laboratory. Edition 1, 23 June, 1969. 

20 x 24 in., SIGNED and INSCRIBED in black ink by Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin: "Buzz Aldrin / Apollo XI / July, 1969"

Includes a detailed notes section at opposite lower corners having a flight time summary based on the July 16 launch date.

Referred to by Buzz Aldrin as the "Key Steps to the First Manned Lunar Landing", this chart depicts the Earth located at the chart center looking down at the north pole, with concentric circles plotted every 50,000 miles outward to the Moon’s orbit. The lunar position around the Earth is illustrated during the 1969 July and August time frame. Key flight profile events such as earth launch, translunar injection, lunar and earth coast phases, lunar orbit insertion, lunar landing - liftoff, and transearth injection are shown in their relative positions.