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109:46:30 Aldrin: I see that probe over on the minus-Y (south) strut (garbled) broken off and bent back up. 109:46:40 Armstrong: It did, didn't it? The other two both bent over. (Long Pause) 109:47:04 Aldrin: (Still near the ladder) Can't say too much for the visibility right here (in the LM shadow) without the visor up. (Garbled) pretty dark. It looks like there is a surface of a flat, mounded rock. (Pause) And incidentally, these rocks (garbled) very powdery surface (garbled). 109:47:40 McCandless: Say again, please, Buzz; you're cutting out. 109:47:45 Aldrin: I say that the rocks are rather slippery. 109:47:50 McCandless: Roger. 109:47:52 Aldrin: A powdery surface when the sun hits (garbled) they split up all the very little fine pores (garbled) will tend to slide over it rather easily. (Long Pause) 109:48:25 Aldrin: Traction seems quite good. (Garbled) (Pause) (Garbled) start to lose my balance in one direction, and recovery is quite natural and very easy (garbled). And, moving your arms around, Jack, doesn't lift you off the surface. Not quite that light-footed. 109:49:06 Armstrong: And, I have the insulation off the MESA now and the MESA seems to be in good shape. 109:49:13 Aldrin: Got to be careful that you are leaning in the direction you want to go, otherwise you (garbled) slightly inebriated. (Garbled) In other words, you have to cross your foot over to stay underneath where your center-of-mass is. (Pause) 109:49:40 Aldrin: Hey, Neil, didn't I say we might see some purple rocks? 109:49:42 Armstrong: Find a purple rock? 109:49:44 Aldrin: Yep. (Pause) Very small, sparkly (garbled) fragments (garbled) in places (garbled) would make a first guess at some sort of biotite. (Pause) We'll leave that to further analysis. (Garbled) (Pause) (Garbled) soil compacts underneath (garbled) completely no (garbled) you don't sink down more than (garbled) a quarter of an inch. (Pause) 109:50:59 Armstrong: Okay, Houston. I'm going to change (TV) lenses on you. 109:51:05 McCandless: Roger, Neil. (Long Pause) 109:51:30 Armstrong: Okay, Houston. Tell me if you're getting a new picture. 109:51:35 McCandless: Neil, this is Houston. That's affirmative. We're getting a new picture. You can tell it's a longer focal length lens. And for your information, all LM systems are Go. Over. 109:51:46 Aldrin: We got you boresighted, but back and to one side. (Pause) 109:52:40 Armstrong: For those who haven't read the plaque, we'll read the plaque that's on the front landing gear of this LM. First there's two hemispheres, one showing each of the two hemispheres of the Earth. Underneath it says "Here Men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind." It has the crew members' signatures and the signature of the President of the United States. (Pause) 109:53:40 Armstrong: (To Buzz) Ready for the camera? No, I'll get it. 109:53:43 Aldrin: No, you take this TV on out. 109:53:45 Armstrong: Watch the LEC, there. (Pause) 109:53:53 Aldrin: Now, I'm afraid these (garbled) materials are going to (garbled) dusty. (Pause) (To Houston) The surface material (garbled) powdery. (Garbled) how good your lens is, but if you can (garbled) smudges on my gloves (garbled) very much like a very finely powdered carbon, but dirty looking. 109:54:40 Armstrong: Would you pull out some of my (TV) cable for me, Buzz? (Long Pause) 109:54:58 Aldrin: Houston. How close are you able to get things in focus? 109:55:02 McCandless: This is Houston. We can see Buzz's right hand. It is somewhat out of focus. I'd say we were focusing down to probably, oh, about eight inches to a foot behind the position of his hand when he was pulling out the cable. 109:55:21 Aldrin: (To Neil) Okay. How's the temperature look on there? 109:55:25 Armstrong: Temperature of the camera is showing cold. 109:55:32 Aldrin: I'm a little cool. I think I'll change (garbled). (Pause) I'm on Intermediate (cooling) now, Houston, and I show 3.78 (psi). No (warning) flags, 74 (garbled, probably percent oxygen). 109:55:50 McCandless: Houston. Roger. Out. 109:55:57 Aldrin: And, we'll probably need a little (garbled) distance (garbled) back location (garbled) television camera. (Pause) Neil, look at the minus-Y (south) strut. The direction of travel there (garbled) traveling from right to left. 109:56:24 Armstrong: Right (Meaning "correct"). 109:56:25 Aldrin: This one over here underneath the ascent (means "descent") engine where the probe first hit. The minus-Y (south) probe first hit. 109:56:35 Armstrong: I got plenty of cable? 109:56:38 Aldrin: You've got plenty. Plenty more. (Pause) Okay. I think I've got the end of it. 109:56:51 Armstrong: Something interesting in the bottom of this little crater here...It may be... 109:57:01 Aldrin: Now keep going. We've got a lot more (cable). 109:57:03 Armstrong: Okay. 109:57:04 Aldrin: Getting a little harder to pull out, here. (Long Pause) 109:57:30 Armstrong: How far would you say I am, Buzz? 109:57:33 Aldrin: Forty, fifty feet. Why don't you turn around and let them get a view from there and see what the field-of-view looks like? 109:57:42 Armstrong: Okay. 109:57:45 Aldrin: You're backing into the cable. 109:57:46 Armstrong: Okay. 109:57:50 Aldrin: Turn around to your right, would be better. 109:57:53 Armstrong: I don't want to go into the Sun if I can avoid it. 109:57:55 Aldrin: That's right, Yeah. 109:57:59 Armstrong: I'll just leave it... 109:58:01 Aldrin: All right, let it (garbled) 109:58:02 Armstrong: ...sit like that and walk around it. 109:58:06 Aldrin: Houston. How's that field- of-view going to be to pick up the MESA? (Garbled) far away? 109:58:15 McCandless: Good. (Pause) Neil, this is Houston. The field-of-view is okay. We'd like you to aim it a little bit more to the right. Over. 109:58:28 Armstrong: Okay. 109:58:32 Aldrin: Okay. That's all the cable we have. (Garbled) all the way out. I'll start working on the solar wind (as per checklist). 109:58:40 McCandless: (To Neil) A little bit too much to the right. Can you bring it back left about 4 or 5 degrees? (Pause) Okay. That looks good Neil. 109:58:55 Armstrong: Okay, now...Do you think I ought to be farther away, or closer? 109:59:01 Aldrin: Can't get too much further away. 109:59:05 Armstrong: Let's try it like that for a while. I'll get a couple of panoramas with it here. 109:59:13 McCandless: Roger. You look okay as far as distance goes, Neil. And we'll line you up again when you finish the panorama. Now you're going too fast on the panorama sweep. You're going to have to stop for... 109:59:28 Armstrong: I haven't stopped...I haven't set it down yet. That's the first picture in the panorama; right there. 109:59:35 McCandless: Roger. 109:59:40 Armstrong: It's taken just about north-northeast. Tell me if you've got a picture, Houston. 109:59:54 McCandless: We've got a beautiful picture, Neil. 109:59:58 Armstrong: Okay. I'm going to move it. (Pause) 110:00:10 McCandless: Okay. There's another good one. (Pause) Okay, we got that one. 110:00:29 Armstrong: Okay. Now, this one is right down-Sun, straight west. And I want to know if you can see an angular rock in the foreground... 110:00:41 McCandless: Roger. We have a... 110:00:42 Armstrong: ...sticking up out of soil. 110:00:43 McCandless: ...large angular rock in the foreground, and it looks like a much smaller rock a couple of inches to the left of it. Over. 110:00:52 Armstrong: All right. And then on beyond it about 10 feet is an even larger rock that's very rounded.(Pause) That rock is about...The closest one to you is sticking out of the sand about one foot. And it's about a foot and one- half long, and it's about six inches thick, but it's standing on edge. 110:01:16 McCandless: Roger. (Pause) 110:01:26 Aldrin: Okay, Neil. I've got the table out (and) got a bag deployed. 110:01:33 McCandless: We've got this view, Neil. (Pause) 110:01:42 Armstrong: This is straight south. 110:01:45 McCandless: Roger. And we see the shadow of the LM. 110:01:48 Armstrong: 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 (east-west) and 20 feet across (north-south), and they're probably 6 feet deep. We'll probably get some more work in there later. (Pause) 110:02:20 McCandless: Roger. We see Buzz going about his work (at the MESA). 110:02:22 Armstrong: How's that for a final...(Listens) 110:02:26 McCandless: For a final orientation, we'd like it to come left about 5 degrees. Over. (Pause) Now back to the right about half as much. 110:02:42 Armstrong: Okay. (Pause) 110:02:53 McCandless: Okay. That looks good there, Neil. 110:03:00 Armstrong: Okay. (Long Pause) 110:03:20 Aldrin: Okay. You can make a mark, Houston. (Garbled) 110:03:24 McCandless: Roger. Solar wind. (Pause) 110:03:36 Aldrin: And, incidentally, you can use the shadow that the staff makes to assist you getting it perpendicular (to the Sun line) (garbled) 110:03:50 McCandless: Roger. (Long Pause) 110:04:05 Aldrin: Some of these small depressions (garbled) soft and you tend to sink, oh, maybe 2 or 3 inches. (Garbled) suggest exactly what the Surveyor pictures showed when they pushed away a little bit. You get a force transmitted hrough 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. 110:04:43 Armstrong: I noticed in the soft spots where we have footprints nearly an inch deep that the soil is very cohesive; and it will retain a slope of probably 70 degrees along the side of the footprints. 110:06:29 Armstrong: Okay? 110:06:30 Aldrin: Yeah. I think that's there. (Pause) That end come off? (Pause) Want me to do that? I'll get the hammer. (Long Pause) 110:07:01 Armstrong: (Standing between the MESA and the TV camera) Take that part? Go out here with it. (Pause) Right out to the rock, here. (Long Pause) 110:07:38 Aldrin: Wait, you'll have to extend that one. (Long Pause) 110:07:58 McCandless: Columbia, Columbia, this is Houston. AOS; over. (Long Pause) 110:08:26 Aldrin: (Garbled) (Long Pause) 110:08:53 Collins: Houston, Columbia on the high gain. Over. 110:08:55 McCandless: Columbia, this is Houston. Reading you loud and clear. Over. 110:09:03 Collins: Yeah. Reading you loud and clear. How's it going? 110:09:05 McCandless: Roger. The EVA is progressing beautifully. I believe they are setting up the flag now. 110:09:14 Collins: Great! 110:09:18 McCandless: I guess you're about the only person around that doesn't have TV coverage of the scene. 110:09:25 Collins: That's all right. I don't mind a bit. (Pause) How is the quality of the TV? 110:09:35 McCandless: Oh, it's beautiful, Mike. It really is. 110:09:39 Collins: Oh, gee, that's great! Is the lighting halfway decent? 110:09:43 McCandless: Yes, indeed. They've got the flag up now and you can see the stars and stripes on the lunar surface. 110:09:50 Collins: Beautiful. Just beautiful. (Long Pause) 110:10:16 Armstrong: (To Buzz) That's good. See if you can pull that end off a little bit. Straighten that end up a little? (Pause) 110:10:33 Aldrin: It won't go up. (Pause) Okay. appreciate that. Thank you. (Long Pause) 109:52:24 Aldrin: Neil is now unveiling the plaque that is (garbled) gear. 109:52:27 McCandless: Roger. We got you boresighted, but back and to one side. (Pause) 109:52:40 Armstrong: For those who haven't read the plaque, we'll read the plaque that's on the front landing gear of this LM. First there's two hemispheres, one showing each of the two hemispheres of the Earth. Underneath it says "Here Men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind." It has the crew members' signatures and the signature of the President of the United States. (Pause) 109:53:40 Armstrong: (To Buzz) Ready for the camera? No, I'll get it. 109:53:43 Aldrin: No, you take this TV on out. 109:53:45 Armstrong: Watch the LEC, there. (Pause) 109:53:53 Aldrin: Now, I'm afraid these (garbled) materials are going to (garbled) dusty. (Pause) (To Houston) The surface material (garbled) powdery. (Garbled) how good your lens is, but if you can (garbled) smudges on my gloves (garbled) very much like a very finely powdered carbon, but dirty looking. 109:54:40 Armstrong: Would you pull out some of my (TV) cable for me, Buzz? (Long Pause) 109:54:58 Aldrin: Houston. How close are you able to get things in focus? 109:55:02 McCandless: This is Houston. We can see Buzz's right hand. It is somewhat out of focus. I'd say we were focusing down to probably, oh, about eight inches to a foot behind the position of his hand when he was pulling out the cable. 109:55:21 Aldrin: (To Neil) Okay. How's the temperature look on there? 109:55:25 Armstrong: Temperature of the camera is showing cold. 109:55:32 Aldrin: I'm a little cool. I think I'll change (garbled). (Pause) I'm on Intermediate (cooling) now, Houston, and I show 3.78 (psi). No (warning) flags, 74 (garbled, probably percent oxygen). 109:55:50 McCandless: Houston. Roger. Out. 109:55:57 Aldrin: And, we'll probably need a little (garbled) distance (garbled) back location (garbled) television camera. (Pause) Neil, look at the minus-Y (south) strut. The direction of travel there (garbled) traveling from right to left. 109:56:24 Armstrong: Right (Meaning "correct"). 109:56:25 Aldrin: This one over here underneath the ascent (means "descent") engine where the probe first hit. The minus-Y (south) probe first hit. 109:56:35 Armstrong: I got plenty of cable? 109:56:38 Aldrin: You've got plenty. Plenty more. (Pause) Okay. I think I've got the end of it. 109:56:51 Armstrong: Something interesting in the bottom of this little crater here...It may be... 109:57:01 Aldrin: Now keep going. We've got a lot more (cable). 109:57:03 Armstrong: Okay. 109:57:04 Aldrin: Getting a little harder to pull out, here. (Long Pause) 109:57:30 Armstrong: How far would you say I am, Buzz? 109:57:33 Aldrin: Forty, fifty feet. Why don't you turn around and let them get a view from there and see what the field-of-view looks like? 109:57:42 Armstrong: Okay. 109:57:45 Aldrin: You're backing into the cable. 109:57:46 Armstrong: Okay. 109:57:50 Aldrin: Turn around to your right, would be better. 109:57:53 Armstrong: I don't want to go into the Sun if I can avoid it. 109:57:55 Aldrin: That's right, Yeah. 109:57:59 Armstrong: I'll just leave it... 109:58:01 Aldrin: All right, let it (garbled) 109:58:0 Armstrong: ...sit like that and walk around it. 109:58:06 Aldrin: Houston. How's that field- of-view going to be to pick up the MESA? (Garbled) far away? 109:58:15 McCandless: Good. (Pause) Neil, this is Houston. The field-of-view is okay. We'd like you to aim it a little bit more to the right. Over. 109:58:28 Armstrong: Okay. 109:58:32 Aldrin: Okay. That's all the cable we have. (Garbled) all the way out. I'll start working on the solar wind (as per checklist). 109:58:40 McCandless: (To Neil) A little bit too much to the right. Can you bring it back left about 4 or 5 degrees? (Pause) Okay. That looks good Neil. 109:58:55 Armstrong: Okay, now...Do you think I ought to be farther away, or closer? 109:59:01 Aldrin: Can't get too much further away. 109:59:05 Armstrong: Let's try it like that for a while. I'll get a couple of panoramas with it here. 109:59:13 McCandless: Roger. You look okay as far as distance goes, Neil. And we'll line you up again when you finish the panorama. Now you're going too fast on the panorama sweep. You're going to have to stop for... 109:59:28 Armstrong: I haven't stopped...I haven't set it down yet. That's the first picture in the panorama; right there. 109:59:35 McCandless: Roger. 109:59:40 Armstrong: It's taken just about north-northeast. Tell me if you've got a picture, Houston. 109:59:54 McCandless: We've got a beautiful picture, Neil. 109:59:58 Armstrong: Okay. I'm going to move it. (Pause) 110:00:10 McCandless: Okay. There's another good one. (Pause) Okay, we got that one. 110:00:29 Armstrong: Okay. Now, this one is right down-Sun, straight west. And I want to know if you can see an angular rock in the foreground... 110:00:41 McCandless: Roger. We have a... 110:00:42 Armstrong: ...sticking up out of soil. 110:00:43 McCandless: ...large angular rock in the foreground, and it looks like a much smaller rock a couple of inches to the left of it. Over. 110:00:52 Armstrong: All right. And then on beyond it about 10 feet is an even larger rock that's very rounded. (Pause) That rock is about...The closest one to you is sticking out of the sand about one foot. And it's about a foot and one- half long, and it's about six inches thick, but it's standing on edge. 110:01:16 McCandless: Roger. (Pause) 110:01:26 Aldrin: Okay, Neil. I've got the table out (and) got a bag deployed. 110:01:33 McCandless: We've got this view, Neil. (Pause) 110:01:42 Armstrong: This is straight south. 110:01:45 McCandless: Roger. And we see the shadow of the LM. 110:01:48 Armstrong: 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 (east-west) and 20 feet across (north-south), and they're probably 6 feet deep. We'll probably get some more work in there later. (Pause) 110:02:20 McCandless: Roger. We see Buzz going about his work (at the MESA). 110:02:22 Armstrong: How's that for afinal...(Listens) 110:02:26 McCandless: For a final orientation, we'd like it to come left about 5 degrees. Over. (Pause) Now back to the right about half as much. 110:02:42 Armstrong: Okay. (Pause) 110:02:53 McCandless: Okay. That looks good there, Neil. 110:03:00 Armstrong: Okay. (Long Pause) 110:03:20 Aldrin: Okay. You can make a mark, Houston. (Garbled) 110:03:24 McCandless: Roger. Solar wind. (Pause) 110:03:36 Aldrin: And, incidentally, you can use the shadow that the staff makes to assist you getting it perpendicular (to the Sun line) (garbled) 110:03:50 McCandless: Roger. (Long Pause) 110:04:05 Aldrin: Some of these small depressions (garbled) |
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