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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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And right in this area, there are two craters. The one that's right in front of me now as I look off in about the eleven o'clock position from the spacecraft, about 30 to 35 feet … There's several eral rocks and boulders 6 to 8 inches across … sizes.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Roger. No marks on the LM that time. I did see a suspiciously small white object whose coordinates are —
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Go ahead with the coordinates on the small white object.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Easy—Easy 0.3, 7.6, but I … right on the southwest end of a crater. I think they would know it if they were in such a location. It looks like their LM would be pitched up quite a degree. It's on the southwest wall of a smallish crater.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Columbia, this is Houston. While I'm talking to you, LOS will be at 111 19 31; AOS, 112 05 43. Over.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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The jet deflector that's mounted on quad 1 seems to be a good bit more wrinkled *** right now on quad 4.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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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.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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And, Houston? Buzz here. I'm showing 3.78 psi, 63 percent, no flags, adequate, slight warming *** fingered.
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Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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Roger. And Neil has 66 percent O2, no flags, minimum cooling, and the suit pressure is 382.
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Buzz, this is Houston. Have you removed the closeup camera from the MESA yet? Over.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Roger. It looks like you're about a half hour slow on it. We're working on consumables. Over.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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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.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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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?
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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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.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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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.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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We're back at the minus Z strut now. *** very little force of impact that we actually had.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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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 ***
Spoken on July 21, 1969, 4:09 a.m. UTC (55 years, 3 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
