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04 14 53 00
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Yes indeed, Buzz. We can see your feet sticking our underneath the structure of the LM descent stage.
04 14 53 08
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. I'm just on the other side of the —
04 14 53 13
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Now we can see you through the structure of the minus Z secondary strut.
04 14 53 38
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): All right. The doors are open, and it looks like they are going to stay up without any problem.
04 14 53 46
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): 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.
04 14 54 03
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): You want to pick an area, Neil?
04 14 54 05
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Make that yaw 175, Columbia, yaw 175 on the high gain.
04 14 54 14
Michael Collins (CMP): Columbia is locked up on the high gain, Houston.
04 14 54 16
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. Out.
04 14 55 42
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Houston, the passive seismometer has been deployed manually.
04 14 55 49
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger.
04 14 56 30
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): And the manual deployment of the LR cubed, the little spring that is at the end of the string is pulled off of the picks head. However, I was able to reach up and get hold of the picks head and pull it loose. So, it will be deployed manually, also.
04 14 56 51
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger.
04 14 57 05
Neil Armstrong (CDR): And, the panorama is complete. *** and the LM—got the LM at 7 30 position at about 60 feet.
04 14 57 39
Neil Armstrong (CDR): And the doors are closed and locked.
04 14 57 43
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger.
04 14 57 50
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Have you got us a good area picked out?
04 14 57 53
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Yes. I think right out on that rise out there is probably as good as any.
04 14 58 08
Neil Armstrong (CDR): I'll probably stay on the high ground there and —
04 14 58 16
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Watch it; the edge of that crater is—drops —
04 14 58 19
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Yes. It drops off there, doesn't it?
04 14 58 24
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Get a couple of close ups on these quite rounded large boulders.
04 14 58 44
Neil Armstrong (CDR): About 40 feet out—I'd say out at the end of that next —
04 14 58 50
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): It's going to be a little difficult to find a good level spot here.
04 14 58 55
Neil Armstrong (CDR): The top of that next little ridge there. Wouldn't that be a pretty good place?
04 14 59 03
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): All right. Should I put the LR cubed right about here?
04 14 59 07
Neil Armstrong (CDR): All right.
04 14 59 10
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): I'm going to have to get on the other side of this rock here.
04 14 59 19
Neil Armstrong (CDR): I would go right around that crater to the left there. Isn't that a level spot there?
04 14 59 25
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): I think this right here is just as level.
04 15 00 00
Neil Armstrong (CDR): These boulders look like basalt, and they have probably 2 percent white minerals in them, the white crystals. And the thing that I reported as the vesicular before, I'm not—I don't believe I believe that any more. I think that small craters—they look like little impact craters where shot—B B shot has hit the surface.
04 15 02 08
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 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. ***
04 15 02 34
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): You're cutting out again, Buzz.
04 15 02 49
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. I say I'm not having too much success in leveling the PSE experiment.
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04 15 03 57
Neil Armstrong (CDR): The laser reflector is installed and the bubble is leveled and the alignment appears to be good.
04 15 04 16
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Neil, this is Houston. Roger. Out.
04 15 04 23
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Hey, you want to take a look at this B B and see what you make out of it?
04 15 04 30
Neil Armstrong (CDR): I find it pretty hard to get perfectly level, too.
04 15 04 37
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): That B B likes the outside. It won't go on the inside.
04 15 04 48
Neil Armstrong (CDR): That little cup is convex now, instead of concave.
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04 15 04 53
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): I think you're right.
04 15 04 56
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Believe it is.
04 15 04 57
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 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.
04 15 05 19
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger, 11. Press on. If you think it looks level by eyeball, go ahead.
04 15 05 28
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay.
04 15 06 03
Neil Armstrong (CDR): …
04 15 06 20
Neil Armstrong (CDR): There you go. Good work; good show. Hey, whoa; stop, stop! Back up.
04 15 06 34
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 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.
04 15 06 56
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): All parts of the solar array are clear of the ground now.
04 15 07 02
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Buzz, this is Houston. I understand that you did successfully deploy both solar arrays. Over.

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