Spacelog Apollo 11

I'm on intermediate now, Houston, and I show 3.78. No flags, 70 ***

Houston. Roger. Out.

And, we'll probably need a little *** distance *** back location *** television camera.

Neil, look at the minus Y-strut, the direction of travel there *** travel from right to left.

Right.

This one over here underneath the ascent engine where the probe first hit—the minus-Y probe first hit.

I got plenty of cable?

You've got plenty. Plenty more.

Okay. I think I've got the end of it.

Something interesting: in the bottom of this little crater here—It may be -

Now keep going. We've got a lot more.

Okay.

Getting a little harder to pull out, here.

How far would you say I am, Buzz?

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?

Okay.

You're backing into the cable.

Okay.

Turn around to your right, would be better.

I don't want to go into the Sun if I can avoid it.

That's right. Yes.

I'll just leave it —

— All right.

— sit like that and walk around it.

Houston. How's that field of view going to pick up the MESA? *** far away?

Roger.

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.

Okay.

Okay. That's all the cable we have. *** not going out. I'll start working on the solar wind —

A little bit too much to the right. Can you bring it back left about 4 or 5 Degrees?

Okay. That looks good Neil.

Okay, now. Do you think I ought to be farther away, or closer?

Can't get too much further away.

Let's try it like that for a while. I'll get a couple of panoramas with it, here.

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 -

I haven't stopped—I haven't set it down yet. That's the first picture in the panorama. Right there.

Roger.

It's taken just a little—about north, north east.

Tell me if you've got a picture, Houston.

We've got a beautiful picture, Neil.

Okay. I'm going to move it.

Okay. Here's another good one.

Okay, we got that one.

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.

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.

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.

Roger.

Okay, Neil. I've got the table out and the bag deployed.

We've got this view, Neil.

This is straight south.

Roger. And we see the shadow of the LM.

Roger. The little hill just beyond the shadow of the LM is a pair of elongate craters about—probably the pair together is about 40 feet long and 20 feet across, and they're probably 6 feet deep. We'll probably get some more work in there later.

Roger. We see Buzz going about his work.

How's that for a final?

For a final orientation, we'd like it to come left about 5 degrees. Over.

Now back to the right about half as much.

Okay?

Okay. That looks good there, Neil.

Okay.

Okay. You can make a Mark, Houston. *** deployed.

Roger. Solar wind.

And, incidently, you can use the shadow that the staff makes to *** getting it perpendicular ***

Roger.

Some of these small depressions *** tend to sink—oh, maybe 2 or 3 inches. *** suggest exactly what the Surveyor pictures showed when they pushed away a little bit. You get a force transmitted through the upper surface of the soil and about 5 or 6 inches of bay breaks loose and moves as if it were caked on the surface, when in fact it really isn't.

I noticed in the soft spots where we had footprints nearly an inch deep that the soil is very cohesive and it will retain a—will retain a slope of probably 70 degrees along side of the footprints.

Okay?

Yes. I think that's excellent.

They didn't come off?

*** get the ***

*** that part? *** a rock here.