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04 14 01 16
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger.
04 14 01 26
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay, Neil. I've got the table out and the bag deployed.
04 14 01 33
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): We've got this view, Neil.
04 14 01 42
Neil Armstrong (CDR): This is straight south.
04 14 01 45
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. And we see the shadow of the LM.
04 14 01 48
Neil Armstrong (CDR): 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.
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04 14 02 20
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. We see Buzz going about his work.
04 14 02 22
Neil Armstrong (CDR): How's that for a final?
04 14 02 26
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): For a final orientation, we'd like it to come left about 5 degrees. Over.
04 14 02 36
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Now back to the right about half as much.
04 14 02 42
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay?
04 14 02 53
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Okay. That looks good there, Neil.
04 14 03 00
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay.
04 14 03 20
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay. You can make a Mark, Houston. *** deployed.
04 14 03 24
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. Solar wind.
04 14 03 36
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): And, incidently, you can use the shadow that the staff makes to *** getting it perpendicular ***
04 14 03 50
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger.
04 14 04 05
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 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.
04 14 04 43
Neil Armstrong (CDR): 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.
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04 14 06 29
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay?
04 14 06 30
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Yes. I think that's excellent.
04 14 06 39
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): They didn't come off?
04 14 06 46
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): *** get the ***
04 14 07 01
Neil Armstrong (CDR): *** that part? *** a rock here.
04 14 07 38
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): You'll have to extend that one.
04 14 07 58
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Columbia, Columbia, this is Houston. Over.
04 14 08 26
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): ***
04 14 08 53
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston, Columbia on the high gain. Over.
04 14 08 55
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Columbia, this is Houston. Reading you loud and clear. Over.
04 14 09 03
Michael Collins (CMP): Yes. Reading you loud and clear. How's it going?
04 14 09 05
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. The EVA is progressing beautifully. I believe they are setting up the flag now.
04 14 09 14
Michael Collins (CMP): Great.
04 14 09 18
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): I guess you're about the only person around that doesn't have TV coverage of the scene.
04 14 09 25
Michael Collins (CMP): That's all right. I don't mind a bit.
04 14 09 33
Michael Collins (CMP): How is the quality of the TV?
04 14 09 35
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Oh, it's beautiful, Mike. It really is.
04 14 09 39
Michael Collins (CMP): Oh, gee, that's great! Is the lighting half way decent?
04 14 09 43
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Yes, indeed. They've got the flag up now and you can see the stars and stripes on the lunar surface.
04 14 09 50
Michael Collins (CMP): Beautiful. Just beautiful.
04 14 10 16
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): That's good. See if you can pull that end off a little bit. Take that end up a little.
04 14 10 33
Neil Armstrong (CDR): It won't pull out.
04 14 10 39
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay.
04 14 12 21
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Neil, this is Houston. Radio check. Over.
04 14 12 27
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger, Houston. Loud and clear.
04 14 12 29
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. Out.
04 14 12 30
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Loud and clear, Houston.
04 14 12 32
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger, Buzz.
04 14 13 15
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): I'd like to evaluate the various paces that a person can *** traveling on the lunar surface. I believe I'm out of your field of view. Is that right, now, Houston?
04 14 13 30
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): That's affirmative, Buzz.
04 14 13 37
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): You are in our field of view now.

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