Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Yes, I had the switch on OUTSIDE while I was going through the overhead window. That may be what's contributing to some of it.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

11, Houston. We seem to be picking up a few more dust particles now. We see them quite clearly in the screen now. Over.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Yes, I'm choking on one every so often.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

11, Houston. Your show is going out to the U.S. now. We're about to get the satellite up. It'll be transmitted to some other countries after that. Over.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Roger. I'm checking out this window bracket where I'll be putting it for the EVA pictures of Neil going down the ladder.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, Houston. We keep marveling about the color and the clarity of the picture. It's really difficult to describe. It's—It's just perfect. Over.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

And, 11, it doesn't look like you're having too much trouble with that bracket up there, Buzz.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

I'll tell you, those new knobs really make it easy to twist the thing and get it cinched down quite tight.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

11, Houston. Buzz, how does the alignment look, there?

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

It looks pretty good, as well as I can tell without the gear extended. I can't get a real definitive answer, but you couldn't fix it any place to see much more out of the window without hand-holding it for the whole time.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Roger. Looks like to us it's going to work real well.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Give it enough room to—Yes, I think so.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Buzz, we see you putting your window guard in place there, and back up to the ISA now.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Houston, ask FAO if the 90-degree bracket isn't stowed in the Commander's stowage assembly.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

11, Houston. Buzz, you still looking for that 90-degree bracket? Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Yes, he is looking for it now.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Roger. We'll have a word for you in just a moment.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Our monitor shows pretty good, clear pictures from this angle. I already found the 90-degree bracket.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Roger, Neil. It's really a super picture. We've got the ACA, your ACA, the picture of the throttle, the 90-degree bracket. We see your handles, and now over to the bracket.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

That's about the position we'll be putting the camera in after the initial descent on the ladder, and it'll be taken 1 frame a second for most of the EVA.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Houston copies. Out. That's a real good view of that camera.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Our monitor is a little bit wavy, so it's hard for us to tell when we're—when we've got a steady picture for you.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

11, we have no complaints at all. We don't see that waviness on our picture. It's just really great. Over.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Do the edges of the window look like straight lines to you?

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Okay. They don't in our monitor, and that leads us to make some corrections to the camera, which probably aren't required sometimes.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Buzz, we have no complaints at all. It's a magnificent picture.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

What was that, Buzz, you're chasing now?

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

That was—That was me picking up some particles of paint that were floating through the air in front of the camera, there.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Roger, Neil. We got it. It appears to us that Neil's about to check the Velcro mat, there.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Okay, Buzz. We see the card up now.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Okay. For those of you that don't know, this is where we log most of our data for each of the LM maneuvers, and we have another card like this that the timeline book that is laid down on the table in front of the data display keyboard; and it's on this timeline that we have all our procedures. But we obviously have to hold these in place in zero g, so we make use of the Velcro patches on the back and on the table so we can attach these down here; and then we just turn the pages over when we go to new sequences in our timeline of procedures.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

And we're ready to copy DOI PAD.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Roger. We'll have the FIDO's work that one up for you momentarily.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

11, Houston. That was a good shot of Panel 2. Now we got Panel 3 in view with the TEMP MONITOR switch. The stabilization—station and control panel, we see now, with the MODE CONTROL switches. Now over to the rendezvous radar. Real good.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

11, that's real good camera work.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

That'll be the most unusual position a cameraman's ever had, hanging by his toes from a tunnel and taking the picture upside-down.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Roger. Well you're doing a super job. We got a good view of the cross pointer, there. Had a good view of the tape meter.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

We're giving you a picture now of the floor of the cabin. I think you can see the—one of the two portable life support system backpacks here in the center, and on each side, we have the two helmet visors. I'll remove one of them and show you a little closer view of what this looks like.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Inside the helmet visors are the EVA gloves with the blue tips. I'm about to take those out now.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Roger, Buzz. That's a great shot now that we're getting of the helmet, the EVA visor, and also the—the EVA gloves in the background.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Okay. You did say this was going out now, didn't you?

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

11, you got a pretty big audience. It's live in the U.S. It's going live to Japan, western Europe, and much of South America. Everybody reports very good color. Appreciate the great show.