Apollo 11 circularized their lunar orbit with the LOI2 burn in late afternoon Eastern Time.
The flight plan then had Armstrong and Aldrin move to the LM Eagle and begin checking out their lander for tomorrow's descent and, hopefully, the first manned lunar landing.
Tonight was the first time the individual spacecraft callsigns - Columbia and Eagle were used over the radios.
Wake-up and landing preparation begin at about 7:30 AM tomorrow morning; landing in late afternoon!
"[I]f we fail, then the whole world,…all that we have known and cared for…will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that…men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'”
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