Spacelog Apollo 11

Roger. OMNI Delta.

Okay. My window's cleared. I'm going to go to turn my cooling up a little bit.

Okay. My window's clear.

All RCU windows are clear. And suit circuit is 42—43. And I got ascent pressure light, a VF light, and a ECS light.

And we've got a water separater light. Hold it and I'll check.

All right.

And I'll look at your cabin fan 1 circuit breaker, and you look at glycol secondary.

I've got good cooling now.

Me, too.

Okay. Glycol pump secondary circuit breaker open?

I can see that. I have to lean this way.

Can't go any further.

My cabin fan 1 ***

Yes, That's good.

Can you check it?

It's open. Verified.

Okay. PGNS radar circuit breaker's open.

Well, I'm looking head on at it. I'll get it.

Okay. Let's get your antenna.

You'll have to fix my antenna.

Well, ready? —

About ready to go down and get some Moon rock?

My antenna's out. Okay. Now we're ready to hook up the LEC here.

All right. That should go down with no twists at all. Put the bag up this way, that's even. Neil, are you hooked up to it?

Yes. Okay. Now we need to hook this.

Move that up there.

Okay.

Okay. Your visor.

Okay. Your back is up against the purse. All right. Now it's on top of the DSKY. Forward and up; now you are clear. Little bit toward me. Straight down, to your left a little bit. Plenty of room. Neil, you're lined up nicely. Toward me a little bit, down. Okay. Now you're clear. You're catching the first hinge on the bottom.

What hinge?

All right. Move, here roll to the left. Okay. Now you're clear. You're lined up on the platform. Put your left foot to the right a little bit. Okay. That's good. Roll left, Good.

Okay. Now I'm going to check PLSS here.

Okay. You're not quite squared away. Roll to the—roll right a little. Now you're even.

That's okay?

That's good. You've got plenty of room to your left. It's a little close on the ***

How am I doing?

You're doing fine.

Okay. Do you want those bags?

Yes. Got it.

Okay. Houston, I'm on the porch.

Roger, Neil.

Okay. Stand by, Neil.

Columbia, Columbia, this is Houston. One minute and 30 seconds to LOS. All systems GO. Over.

Columbia. Thank you.

Stay where you are a minute, Neil.

Okay. Need a little slack?

You need more slack, Buzz?

No. Hold it just a minute.

Okay.

Okay.

Did you get the MESA out?

I'm going to pull it now.

Houston, the MESA came down all right.

This is Houston, Roger. We copy. And we're standing by for your TV.

Houston, this is Neil. Radio check.

Neil, this is Houston. Loud and clear. Break. Break. Buzz, this is Houston. Radio check, and verify TV circuit breaker in.

Roger, TV circuit breaker's in, and read you five square.

Roger. We're getting a picture on the TV.

You got a good picture, huh?

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.

Okay. Will you verify the position—the opening I ought to have on the camera?

Stand by.

Okay. Neil, we can see you coming down the ladder now.

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.

Roger. We copy.

It takes a pretty good little jump.

Buzz, this is Houston. F/2—1/160th second for shadow photography on the sequence camera.

Okay.

Neil, this is Houston. We're copying.

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.

Okay, Buzz, we ready to bring down the camera?

I'm all ready. I think it's been all squared away and in good shape.

Okay.

Okay. You'll have to pay out all the LEC. It looks like it's coming out nice and evenly.

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.

Okay. It's taut now.

Okay. I think you're pulling the wrong one.

I'm just—Okay. I'm ready to pull it down now. There was still a little bit left in the -

Okay. Don't hold it quite so tight.

Okay.

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,

Okay. I'm going to be changing the ***

Okay.

The camera is installed on the RCU bracket, and I'm storing the LEC on the secondary strut.

I'll step out and take some of my first pictures here.

Roger. Neil, we're reading you loud and clear. We see you getting some pictures and the contingency sample.

Neil, this is Houston. Did you copy about the contingency sample? Over.

Roger. I'm going to get to that just as soon as I finish these picture series.

Okay. Going to get the contingency sample there, Neil.

Right.

Okay. That's good.

Okay. The contingency sample is down and it's ***. Looks like it's a little difficult to dig through the initial crust.

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.