At 102:51:45, Mission Control radioed Eagle that they were STAY for the "T2" liftoff point, guaranteeing them at least a two-hour stay on the Moon. The next point that they could lift off to rendezvous with Columbia wouldn't happen until Columbia circled the Moon again.
At 102:55:16, Commander Neil Armstrong told Mission Control about the landing, now that things had calmed down in the cockpit a bit:
(CDR): "Hey, Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The auto targeting was taking us right into a football-field-sized crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks for about one or two crater diameters around it, and it required us going in P66 and flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area."
(CAPCOM): "Roger. We copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over."
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