Spacelog Apollo 11

Okay. You do have to be rather careful to keep track of where your center of mass is. Sometimes, it takes about two or three paces to make sure you've got your feet underneath you.

About two to three or maybe four easy paces can bring you to a nearly smooth stop. *** change directions, like a football player, you just have to to *** foot out to the side and cut a little bit.

So-called kangeroo hop does work, but it seems that your forward mobility is not quite as good as—it is in the conventional—more conventional one foot after another.

It's hard saying what a sane pace might be. I think it's the one that I'm using now—would get rather tiring after several hundred *** but this may be a function of this suit, as well as lack of gravity forces.

Tranquility Base, this is Houston. Could we get both of you on the camera for a minute, please?

Say again, Houston.

Roger. We'd like to get both of you in the field of view of the camera for a minute.

I look forward to that very much, sir.

Columbia, Columbia, this is Houston. Over.

Loud and clear, Houston.

Roger. I got a P22 AUTO optics—AUTO optics PAD for you.

Roger. Go ahead.

Roger. P22 landmark ID, LM: T1, 110 26 56; T2, 110 32 06. Three miles south; time of closest approach, 110 33 40. Shaft 353.855, trunnion 46.495, roll zero, pitch 250, yaw zero. Over.

Roger. Thank you. Readback not required.

Roger. Out.

Houston, it's very interesting to note that when I kick my foot *** with no atmosphere here, and this gravity *** they seem to leave, and most of them have about the same angle of departure and velocity. From where I stand, a large portion of them will impact at a certain distance out. Several *** the percentage is, of course, that will impact *** different regions *** it's highly dependent upon *** the initial trajectory upward *** where most of the *** already the particles are found, … terrain.

Roger, Buzz. And break. Break. Columbia, this is Houston. When you track out of high gain antenna, then let's request OMNI Delta, OMNI Delta. Over.

So be it.

I've noticed several times in going from the sunlight into the shadow, that just as I go in, I catch an additional reflection off the LM *** along with the reflection off my face onto the visor, makes visibility very poor just at the transition *** sunlight into the shadow. I essentially have so much glare coming onto my visor *** shadow *** helmet actually gets the shadow. Than it takes a short while for my eyes to adapt to the lighting conditions. *** inside the shadow area, visibility, as we said before, is not too great, but both visor's up *** what sort of footprints we have and the general condition of the soil. Then, after being out in the sunlight a while, it takes—Watch it, Neil! Neil, you're on the cable.

Okay.

Yes. Lift up your right foot, right foot. It's still—your toe is still hooked in it.

That one?

Yes. It's still hooked in it. Wait a minute. Okay. You're clear now.

Thank you.

Now, let's move that over this way.

Okay. I've got it.

The blue color of my boots has completely disappeared now into this *** still don't know exactly what color to describe this other than ash cocoa color. It seems to be covering most of the lighter part of the boot *** color that *** very fine particles ***.

Buzz, this is Houston. You're cutting out on the end of your transmissions. Can you speak a little more closely into your microphone? Over.

Roger. I'll try that.

Beautiful.

Well, I had that one inside my mouth that time.

It sounded a little wet.

In general, time spent in the shadow doesn't seem to have any *** thermal effects. *** inside the suit. There is a difference, of course, in the … radiation and the helmet. So I think there's a tendency to feel a little cooler in the shadow than the Sun.

Columbia, this is Houston. Over.

Columbia, this is Houston. Over.

Columbia, this is Houston. Over.

Houston, Columbia in Delta.

Roger. You should have VHF AOS with the LM right about now. VHF LOS will be about 40 minutes 15 seconds. Over.

Thank you.

The panorama I'll be taking is about 30 or 40 feet out to plus ***

Say again which strut, Buzz?

The plus Z strut.

Roger. Out.

The jet deflector that's mounted on quad 1 seems to be a good bit more wrinkled *** right now on quad 4.

You're breaking up again, Buzz.

I say the jets deflector that's mounted on quad 4 seems to be—the surface of it seems lo be more wrinkled than the one that's on quad 1. Generally, underneath part of the LM seems to have stood up quite well to the *** get some pictures in the aft part of the LM that will illuminate the thermal effects much better than we could get them up here in the front.

Roger. Out.

We're going to get some particular photographs of the bulk sample area, Neil?

Okay.

And, Houston? Buzz here. I'm showing 3.78 psi, 63 percent, no flags, adequate, slight warming *** fingered.

Roger. And Neil has 66 percent O₂, no flags, minimum cooling, and the suit pressure is 382.

Houston. Roger. Out.

Buzz, this is Houston. Have you removed the closeup camera from the MESA yet? Over.

Negative. Thank you.

*** get the panorama now. Okay.

Did you get it?

Houston, how does our timeline appear to be going?

Roger. It looks like you're about a half hour slow on it. We're working on consumables. Over.

All right.

Neil and Buzz, this is Houston. To clarify my last, your consumables are in good shape at this time. The 30 minute reference was with respect to the nominal timeline. Over.

Roger. I understand that.

I don't note any abnormalities in the LM. The pods seem to be in good shape. The primary and secondary struts are in good shape. Antennas are all in place. There's no evidence of problem underneath the LM due to engine exhaust or drainage of any kind.

Roger. Out.

It's very surprising, the very surprising lack of penetration of all four of the foot pads. I'd say if we were to try and determine just how far below the surface they would have penetrated, you'd measure maybe 3 inches, wouldn't you say, Neil?

At the most, yes. That Y strut there is probably even less than that.

Nice paint job.

I get a picture of the plus Y strut taken from near the descent stage, and I think we'll be able to see a little bit better what the thermal effects are. Seem to be quite minimal.

There's one picture taken in the right rear of the spacecraft looking at the skirt of the descent stage, shows a quite darkening of the surface color, a rather minimal amount of radiating or etching away or erosion of the surface. On descent, both of us remarked that we could see a large amount of very fine dust particles moving out. It was reported beforehand that we would probably see an upgassing from the surface after actual engine shutdown, but as I recall, I was unable to confirm that.

This is too big an angle, Neil.

Yes. I think you are right.

We're back at the minus Z strut now. *** very little force of impact that we actually had.

And, Neil, if you'll take the camera, I'll get to work on the SEQ bay.

Okay.

Columbia, Columbia, this is Houston. I notice that -

Go ahead, Buzz.

Taking some close up pictures of that rock.

I was saying that, Houston, *** stop and take a photograph or something and then want to start moving again sideways, there's quite a tendency to start doing it with just gradual sideways hops until you start getting ***

Roger.

Can you see us underneath the LM over at the SEQ bay, Houston?