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04 13 20 58
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay. Can you pull the door open a little more?
04 13 21 00
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): All right.
04 13 21 03
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay.
04 13 21 07
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Did you get the MESA out?
04 13 21 09
Neil Armstrong (CDR): I'm going to pull it now.
04 13 21 18
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Houston, the MESA came down all right.
04 13 21 22
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): This is Houston, Roger. We copy. And we're standing by for your TV.
04 13 21 39
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Houston, this is Neil. Radio check.
04 13 21 42
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Neil, this is Houston. Loud and clear. Break. Break. Buzz, this is Houston. Radio check, and verify TV circuit breaker in.
04 13 21 54
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger, TV circuit breaker's in, and read you five square.
04 13 22 00
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. We're getting a picture on the TV.
04 13 22 09
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): You got a good picture, huh?
04 13 22 11
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): There's a great deal of contrast in it, and currently it's upside down on our monitor, but we can make out a fair amount of detail.
04 13 22 28
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. Will you verify the position—the opening I ought to have on the camera?
04 13 22 34
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Stand by.
04 13 22 48
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Okay. Neil, we can see you coming down the ladder now.
04 13 22 59
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay. I just checked getting back up to that first step, Buzz. It's—not even collapsed too far, but it's adequate to get back up.
04 13 23 10
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. We copy.
04 13 23 11
Neil Armstrong (CDR): It takes a pretty good little jump.
04 13 23 25
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Buzz, this is Houston. F/2—1/160th second for shadow photography on the sequence camera.
04 13 23 35
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay.
04 13 23 38
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Key moment One small step…: I'm at the foot of the ladder. The LM footpads are only depressed in the surface about 1 or 2 inches, although the surface appears to be very, very fine grained, as you get close to it. It's almost like a powder. Down there, it's very fine.
04 13 23 43
Neil Armstrong (CDR): I'm going to step off the LM now.
04 13 24 48
Neil Armstrong (CDR): That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong (CDR): And the—the surface is fine and powdery. I can—I can pick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine, sandy particles.
04 13 25 30
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Neil, this is Houston. We're copying.
04 13 25 45
Neil Armstrong (CDR): There seems to be no difficulty in moving around as we suspected. It's even perhaps easier than the simulations at one sixth g that we performed in the various simulations on the ground. It's actually no trouble to walk around. Okay. The descent engine did not leave a crater of any size. It has about 1 foot clearance on the ground. We're essentially on a very level place here. I can see some evidence of rays emanating from the descent engine, but a very insignificant amount.
04 13 26 54
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay, Buzz, we ready to bring down the camera?
04 13 26 59
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): I'm all ready. I think it's been all squared away and in good shape.
04 13 27 03
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay.
04 13 27 05
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. You'll have to pay out all the LEC. It looks like it's coming out nice and evenly.
04 13 27 13
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay. It's quite dark here in the shadow and a little hard for me to see that I have good footing. I'll work my way over into the sunlight here without looking directly into the Sun.
04 13 27 28
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. It's taut now.
04 13 27 51
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. I think you're pulling the wrong one.
04 13 27 55
Neil Armstrong (CDR): I'm just—Okay. I'm ready to pull it down now. There was still a little bit left in the -
04 13 28 01
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. Don't hold it quite so tight.
04 13 28 02
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay.
04 13 28 17
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Looking up at the LM, I'm standing directly in the shadow now looking up at Buzz in the window. And I can see everything quite clearly. The light is sufficiently bright, backlighted into the front of the LM, that everything is very clearly visible,
04 13 28 55
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. I'm going to be changing the ***
04 13 28 58
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay.
04 13 30 23
Neil Armstrong (CDR): The camera is installed on the RCU bracket, and I'm storing the LEC on the secondary strut.
04 13 30 53
Neil Armstrong (CDR): I'll step out and take some of my first pictures here.
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04 13 31 05
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. Neil, we're reading you loud and clear. We see you getting some pictures and the contingency sample.
04 13 32 19
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Neil, this is Houston. Did you copy about the contingency sample? Over.
04 13 32 26
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger. I'm going to get to that just as soon as I finish these picture series.
04 13 33 25
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. Going to get the contingency sample there, Neil.
04 13 33 27
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Right.
04 13 33 30
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. That's good.
04 13 33 58
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. The contingency sample is down and it's ***. Looks like it's a little difficult to dig through the initial crust.
04 13 34 12
Neil Armstrong (CDR): This is very interesting. It's a very soft surface, but here and there where I plug with the contingency sample collector, I run into a very hard surface, but it appears to be very cohesive material of the same sort. I'll try to get a rock in here. Just a couple.

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