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04 13 43 18
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Isn't that something! Magnificent sight out here.
04 13 43 24
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Magnificent desolation.
04 13 43 47
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Looks like the secondary strut *** little thermal effects on it right here, Neil.
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Neil Armstrong (CDR): Yes. I noticed that. That seems to be the worst, although similar effects are on—all around.
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Multiple speakers: … powder, isn't it?
04 13 44 09
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Isn't it fine?
04 13 44 11
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 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.
04 13 44 23
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Notice how you can kick it out.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Yes. And it bounces and then -
04 13 44 55
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Reaching down is fairly easy. I got my suit dirty at this stage.
04 13 45 11
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): The mass of the backpack does have some effect in inertia.
04 13 45 30
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): There's a slight tendency, I can see now, to *** backwards *** due to the soft, very soft texture.
04 13 45 45
Neil Armstrong (CDR): You're standing on a rock, a big rock there now.
04 13 46 01
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): This pad sure didn't ***
04 13 46 05
Neil Armstrong (CDR): No. It didn't.
04 13 46 08
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): There's absolutely no crater there at all from the engine.
04 13 46 10
Neil Armstrong (CDR): No.
04 13 46 12
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): I wonder if about right under the engine is where the probe might have hit.
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Neil Armstrong (CDR): I'd like that.
04 13 46 25
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Yes. I think that's a good representation of our sideward velocity at touchdown there—hole at the probe.
04 13 46 30
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): I see that probe over on the minus-Y strut. It's broken off and bent back up.
04 13 46 40
Neil Armstrong (CDR): It did, didn't it? The other two both bent over.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 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 ***
04 13 47 40
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Say again, please, Buzz; you're cutting out.
04 13 47 45
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): I say that the rocks are rather slippery.
04 13 47 50
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP): A powdery surface when the sun hits. *** they split up all the very little fine porouses *** Will tend to slide over it rather easily.
04 13 48 25
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Traction *** seems quite good. ***
04 13 48 30
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): *** 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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04 13 49 06
Neil Armstrong (CDR): And, I have the insulation off the MESA now and MESA seems to be in good shape.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 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.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP): And, Neil, didn't I say we might see some purple rocks?
04 13 49 42
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Find a purple rock?
04 13 49 44
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Yes. They are small, sparkly *** fragments *** places *** would make a first guess that some sort of biotite *** We'll leave that to further analysis ***
04 13 50 28
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): *** compact underneath *** completely no *** you don't sink down more than … a quarter of an inch.
04 13 50 59
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay, Houston. I'm going to change lenses on you.
04 13 51 05
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger, Neil.
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Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay, Houston. Tell me if you're getting a new picture.
04 13 51 35
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): 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.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP): We appreciate that. Thank you.
04 13 52 19
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Neil is now unveiling the plaque *** gear.
04 13 52 27
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. We got you boresighted, but back under one track.
04 13 52 40
Neil Armstrong (CDR): 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.
04 13 53 35
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Ready for the camera?
04 13 53 38
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): No. I'll get it. No, you take this TV on out.
04 13 53 45
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Watch the LEC, there.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Now I'm afraid these … materials are going to get dusty ***
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 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.
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Neil Armstrong (CDR): Would you pull out some of my cable for me, Buzz?
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Houston. How close are you able to get things in focus ?

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