Spacelog Apollo 11

Yes indeed, Buzz. We can see your feet sticking our underneath the structure of the LM descent stage.

Okay. I'm just on the other side of the —

Now we can see you through the structure of the minus Z secondary strut.

All right. The doors are open, and it looks like they are going to stay up without any problem.

Columbia, Columbia, this is Houston. We are about to lose you on the OMNI's. Request high gain antenna, REACQ mode Fish 20, yaw 135. Over.

You want to pick an area, Neil?

Make that yaw 175, Columbia, yaw 175 on the high gain.

And, the panorama is complete. *** and the LM—got the LM at 7 30 position at about 60 feet.

And the doors are closed and locked.

Roger.

Have you got us a good area picked out?

Yes. I think right out on that rise out there is probably as good as any.

I'll probably stay on the high ground there and —

Watch it; the edge of that crater is—drops —

Yes. It drops off there, doesn't it?

Get a couple of close ups on these quite rounded large boulders.

About 40 feet out—I'd say out at the end of that next —

It's going to be a little difficult to find a good level spot here.

The top of that next little ridge there. Wouldn't that be a pretty good place?

All right. Should I put the LR cubed right about here?

All right.

I'm going to have to get on the other side of this rock here.

I would go right around that crater to the left there. Isn't that a level spot there?

I think this right here is just as level.

Houston. I have the seismic experiment flipped over now, and I'm aligning it, but I'm having a little bit of difficulty getting the B B in the center. It wants to move around and around on the outside. ***

You're cutting out again, Buzz.

Roger. I say I'm not having too much success in leveling the PSE experiment.

The laser reflector is installed and the bubble is leveled and the alignment appears to be good.

Neil, this is Houston. Roger. Out.

Hey, you want to take a look at this B B and see what you make out of it?

I find it pretty hard to get perfectly level, too.

That B B likes the outside. It won't go on the inside.

That little cup is convex now, instead of concave.

I think you're right.

Believe it is.

Houston, I don't think there's any hope for using this leveling device to come up with an accurate level. It looks to me as though the cup here that the B B is in is now convex instead of concave. Over.

Roger, 11. Press on. If you think it looks level by eyeball, go ahead.

Okay.

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There you go. Good work; good show. Hey, whoa; stop, stop! Back up.

Houston, as I was spacing the PSE, the right hand solar array deployed automatically. The left hand I had to manually *** the bar at the far end.

All parts of the solar array are clear of the ground now.

Buzz, this is Houston. I understand that you did successfully deploy both solar arrays. Over.