- Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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It has a stark beauty all its own. It's like much of the high desert of the United States. It's different but it's very pretty out here. Be advised that a lot of the rock samples out here, the hard rock samples, have what appear to be vesicles in the surface. Also, I am looking at one now that appears to have some sort of phenocryst.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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Okay. The handle is off the *** in about 6 or 8 inches into the surface. I could *** easy ***.
- Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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Yes, it is. it's—I'm sure I could push it in farther, but it's hard for me to bend down further than that.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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Yes, it is. It's not up against your suit though. Hit it back once more. More toward the inside. Okay. That's good.
- Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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Contingency sample is in the pocket. My oxygen is 81 percent. I have no flags, and I'm in minimum flow.
- Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Neil, this is Houston. We're getting a picture. You're not in it at the present time. We can see the bag on the LEC being moved by Buzz, though. Here you come into our field of view.
- Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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All set. Okay. You saw what difficulties I was having. I'll try to watch your PLSS from underneath here.
- Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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Okay. Your PLSS is—Looks like it is clearing okay. Your toes are about to come over the sill. Okay. Now drop your PLSS down. There you go; you're clear. And laterally you're good. You've got an inch clearance on top of your PLSS.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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Okay. You need a little bit of arching of the back to come down. … How are are my feet from the edge?
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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Okay. Back in *** little of foot movement *** porch. Little arching of the back. Helmet comes up and clears the bulkhead without any trouble at all.
- Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Neil, this is Houston. Based on your camera transfer with the LEC, do you foresee any difficulties in SRC transfer? Over.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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That's our home for the next couple of hours and we want to take good care of it. Okay. I'm on the top step and I can look down over the RCU, landing gear pads. It's a very simple matter to hop down from one step to the next.
- Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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Yes. I found I could be very comfortable, and walking is also very comfortable.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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Okay. I'm going to leave that one foot up there and both hands down to about the fourth rung up.
- Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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That's a good step. About a 3-footer.
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Yes. I noticed that. That seems to be the worst, although similar effects are on—all around.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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Right in this area I don't think there's much of any *** fine powder *** clods together, and it's hard to tell whether it's a clod or a rock.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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There's a slight tendency, I can see now, to *** backwards *** due to the soft, very soft texture.
- Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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Yes. I think that's a good representation of our sideward velocity at touchdown there—hole at the probe.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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Can't say too much for the visibility right here without the visor up. It's dark. It looks like there is a *** surface of it is *** pounded rock *** And incidentally, these rocks *** very powdery surface ***
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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A powdery surface when the sun hits. *** they split up all the very little fine porouses *** Will tend to slide over it rather easily.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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*** About to lose my balance in one direction and recovery is a quite natural and very easy *** And, moving your arms around, Jack, doesn't *** off the surface *** not quite that light-footed.
- Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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And, I have the insulation off the MESA now and MESA seems to be in good shape.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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Got to be careful that you are leaning in the direction you want to go, otherwise you *** slightly inebriated. In other words, you have to cross your foot over to stay underneath where your center-of-mass is.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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Yes. They are small, sparkly *** fragments *** places *** would make a first guess that some sort of biotite *** We'll leave that to further analysis ***
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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*** compact underneath *** completely no *** you don't sink down more than … a quarter of an inch.
- Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Neil, this is Houston. That's affirmative. We're getting a new picture. You can tell it's a longer focal length lens. And for your information, all LM systems are GO. Over.
- Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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For those who haven't read the plaque, we'll read the plaque that's on the front landing gear of this LM. First there's two hemispheres, one showing each of the two hemispheres of the Earth. Underneath it says “Here Man from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.” It has the crew members' signatures and the signature of the President of the United States.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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The surface material is powdery. *** How good your lens is, but if you can *** smudges … very much like a very finely powdered carbon, but it's very pretty looking.
- Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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This is Houston. We can see Buzz's right hand. It is somewhat out of focus. I'd say we were focusing down to probably—oh, about 8 inches to a foot behind the position of his hand when he was pulling out the cable.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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Okay. How's the temperature on there?
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And, we'll probably need a little *** distance *** back location *** television camera.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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Neil, look at the minus Y-strut, the direction of travel there *** travel from right to left.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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This one over here underneath the ascent engine where the probe first hit—the minus-Y probe first hit.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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Forty, 50 feet. Why don't you turn around and let them get a view from there and see what the field of view looks like?
- Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Neil, this is Houston. The field of view is okay. We'd like you to aim it a little bit more to the right. Over.
- Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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Okay. That's all the cable we have. *** not going out. I'll start working on the solar wind —
- Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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A little bit too much to the right. Can you bring it back left about 4 or 5 Degrees?
- Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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Let's try it like that for a while. I'll get a couple of panoramas with it, here.
- Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Roger. You look okay as far as distance goes, Neil. And we'll line you up again when you finish the panorama. Now you're going too fast on the panorama sweep. You're going to have to stop, or -
- Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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I haven't stopped—I haven't set it down yet. That's the first picture in the panorama. Right there.
- Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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Okay. Now, this one is right down front, straight west. And I want to know if you can see an angular rock in the foreground.
- Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We have a large angular rock in the foreground, and it looks like a much smaller rock a couple of inches to the left of it. Over.
- Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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All right. And then on beyond it about 10 feet is an even larger rock that's very rounded. That rock is about—The closest one to you is about sticking out of the sand about 1 foot. And it's about a foot and one half long, and it's about 6 inches thick, but it's standing on edge.
Spoken on July 21, 1969, 3:15 a.m. UTC (55 years, 3 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet