- Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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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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I say that the rocks are rather slippery.
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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.
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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.
Spoken on July 21, 1969, 3:19 a.m. UTC (55 years, 5 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet