This is houston, loud and clear. Buzz, this is houston. Radio check. [beep] clear. Roger. We are getting a picture on the tv. Weve got a good picture. There is a great deal of contrast and it. Down. Tly, it is upside we can make out the fairmont of detail fair amount of detail. Ok, we can verify the position of the opening on the camera. There is a foot. There he is, there is a foot coming down the steps. Ok, neil. We can see you coming down the ladder now. [beep] checked. Just heading back up to the first step. Adequate to get back up. Roger, we copy. So there is a foot on the moon. Stepping down on the moon. The first step, he must be stepping down on the moon at this point. Buzz, this is houston. Shadow photography on the sequence camera. Ok. I am at the foot of the ladder. On the surface, about one or two inches. There appears to be very finegrained as you get close to it, almost like a powder. Board, look at those temperatures. Wow. A little shadowy, but he said expect that, on the shadow of the lunar module. Armstrong is armstrong. , neil 38yearold american standing on the surface of the moon, on this july 20, 1969. That is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. I think that was neils quote. I didnt understand. He said one small step for man, and i didnt get the second phrase. This is fine and powdery. I can pick it up loosely. Layers like powdered charcoal to the sides of my boots. Walter that is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. The footprint of my boots and , are fine, sandy particles. Neal, this is houston, we are copying. Mr. Cronkite thank you, television for letting us watch this one. This is something. Moon. Les out there to the there is difficulty moving around, as we suspected. Asier than the simulations perhaps easier than the simulations we performed on the ground. Definitely no trouble to walk around. Mr. Cronkite that is good news. Mr. Armstrong did not leave a greater of any size. There is about one foot clearance on the ground. We are essentially on a very level place here. Of waves some evidence emanating from the engine, but it is a very insignificant amount. Mr. Cronkite we are getting a negative picture back. Ready to bring down the camera . Already. Down and ined good shape. Looks like it is coming down nice and even. Mr. Cronkite that is the conveyor. A little hard for me to see, i have good footing. I will work my way over. To the sunlight here without looking directly into the sun. Mr. Cronkite i dont know where the houston converter, or why the picture has gone to negative clarity. At least we can make out the figure of Neil Armstrong there. Unofficial time of first 0. Ep, 1 09 2 ok, i am ready to pull it down. There is still a little bit left in the ok. Mr. Cronkite he says this is like a clothesline. He is going to bring down the sequence camera now. The pictures, then a little later on looking up, i am standing and ily in the shadow now can see everything quite clearly. The light is suspiciously bright, everything is very clearly visible. Mr. Cronkite so, mans first words, Neil Armstrongs first words on setting foot on the moon, are one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. He is on the bottom step of the , but haslightly awry no difficulty in climbing back up to the lunar module when they complete this walk. Found the surface more powdery than anticipated. He is thinking about a half of one inch. You can see the footprints. No difficulty in moving around. , easier than the simulations on earth. He has about 25 minutes of activity here alone on the moons surface, testing the environment, moving around like this, taking a good look at the lunar module that he is giving us a check on. Seems to be in good shape. The pads settled nicely, but not very deeply into the fine, powdery sand, find powdery surface of the moon. Position for is in platform. Sergeant says the crew is doing well. Lec. Am still in the mr. Cronkite that would seem to indicate that they are not over exerting. Not using too much heat for the cooling system. One of our concerns are raised, the fact that they are not stressing. He has the camera with him now, i think that is the one that was lowered to him. It is not the sequence camera, which i believe stays in the lunar module. We are reading you loud and clear. Get some pictures and the contingency sample. Mr. Cronkite i think the fight plan actually called for him to take the contingency sample first and then the pictures. As i recall in all my reading, the contingency samples 35 and a half minutes now. Deexpended mr. Cronkite he has confirmed that they are on a very level. Lace there, which is good partly because of his own skill in making that manual landing. Looks like they were coming down a very rough area. It may be that the new a contingency get sample because he feels there is more contingency here. He is showing great confidence that he will do everything he intended to do. Could you sent a copy of the contingency sample, over . Neil fish roger. Well get to that just as soon as i finish. Mr. Cronkite you may be right, wally, as to what is in his mind. The contingency sample is really once they get the full sample, the rock and be documented sample. Which they identify rock by rock, where they got it, and that sort of thing. Although they are saying they want the contingency sample first, as they said in the fight plan. [laughter] wally make sure they get something. It is going so beautifully. Mr. Cronkite moving around, the exertion they are showing when doing that, but neil is showing so far, of course, it is a great and that they learned already. The man will get tired in a minute. Contingency sample just acquired. Wally i wonder what he is up to now. [laughter] ok, the contingency sample is down. A little difficult to dig through the very interesting, it is a very soft surface. Here and there where i plug with the contingency sample collector, i run into a very hard surface. But it appears to be a very cohesive material of the same sort. Ill try to get a rock in here. Just a couple. Mr. Cronkite he has got that little bag that he is tagging along with an extension handle surface. E as he reports there, it is hard. O get everything in it has a stark beauty all its own. It is like much of the high desert of the United States. It is different but very pretty out here. Mr. Cronkite very pretty. Mr. Armstrong a lot of the hard rock samples here appear to be vesicles in the surface. Mr. Cronkite difficult . Wally vesicles. [beep] houston. Roger. Ok, the handle is off the it pushes in about, six or eight inches into the surface. Looks like it is quite easy to [indiscernible] mr. Armstrong i am sure i could push it in farther but it is hard for me to bend down further than that. Didnt know you could throw so far. Can reallyng you throw things along way up. Mr. Armstrong is my pocket open buzz . yes it is. It is not up against your suit, though. Put it more toward the inside. Mr. Armstrong that in the pocket . Mr. Aldrin push down. Got it . It is not all the way in. Push it. There you go. Armstronmr. Armstrong contingey sample is in the pocket. Oxygen is 81 . I have no flags, and im in minimum flow. [beep] houston. S roger, neil. Mr. Aldrin ok, i have the camera on that one frame a second. Mr. Armstrong ok. 80 aldrin and i have got oxygen. No flags. Mr. Armstrong are you getting a tv picture now, houston . Neil, yes we are getting a tv picture. long pause neil, this is houston. We are getting a picture. Youre not in it at the present time. We can see the bag on the lec being moved by buzz. Ready for me to come out . Mr. Armstrong yeah, just stand by a second. Mr. Cronkite talk about being super casual. Mr. Cronkite hope he doesnt get too casual. Mr. Aldrin are you ready . Mr. Armstrong ok. Ok. You saw what difficulties i was having. I will try to watch from underneath. Armstrong is going to try to help guide him from below. As he watches the lifesupport system as he climbs out. Mr. Armstrong ok, your plss looks like it is clearing ok. Your toes are about to come over the sill. Now drop down. There you go, you are clear. Laterally, you are good. Mr. Aldrin you need a little bit of arching of the back to come down. How far are my feet from the edge . Mr. Armstrong you are right at the edge of the porch. Mr. Aldrin ok. Now a little foot movement. Little arching of the back. Helmet clears the without any trouble at all. Mr. Armstrong looks good. Mr. Cronkite 45 minutes plss time expended. Neil, this is houston. Based on your camera transfer with the lec, do you foresee any difficulties in transfer . Over. Mr. Armstrong negative. Src is thee the sample rock container . Wally it is the container box in which the rocks will be returned. Mr. Cronkite this camera angle makes those steps look like they are vastly higher than they are. [laughter] what did he say . Wally make sure not to lock it. [laughter] step, i am on the top and i can look down and see you. Mr. Cronkite here he comes. Mr. Armstrong walking is very comfortable. Youve got three more steps and then a long one. Wally i guess he expected the steps to compact a little more. But apparently there is one more step. Mr. Aldrin i am on the fourth wronrung up. Mr. Armstrong tomorrow. Add another inch. You got it . Mr. Aldrin that is a good step. Yeah, about a three footer. Mr. Cronkite look at that. Mr. Aldrin beautiful. Mr. Armstrong isnt that something . Magnificent out here. Mr. Aldrin magnificent desolation. Mr. Cronkite like walking on a trampoline. Oh, my. Buzzs first words aldrins first words beautiful view. Got the secondary strut had a little thermal effect on it. Mr. Armstrong i noticed that. Seems to be the worst, although similar effects are all around. Mr. Aldrin very fine powder, isnt it . Mr. Armstrong isnt it fine . Aldrin it is hard to tell whether it is a or iraq. Armstrong notice how you can kick it out. Mr. Aldrin yeah, it bounces. Mr. Cronkite look at this. [laughter] reaching down, fairly easy. Getting my suit dirty at this stage. The mass of the backpack does have some effect in inertia. There is a slight tendency, i due to now, to backwards the soft, very soft texture. Mr. Armstrong you are standing on a big rock there now. Mr. Cronkite very shortly, armstrong is to take the camera out of that tray and move it out about 20 feet from the spacecraft so they have a view of the entire area. Mr. Aldrin i wonder if it under the engine is rather rope hit where the probe hit. Mr. Armstrong i think that is a good representation of the velocity down there. Mr. Aldrin i see that probe strut. The minusy mr. Cronkite following the flight plan and testing. Cant say too much for the visibility. 30 dark. Surface of a flat, rounded rock. Incidentally, these rocks are surfaced. Ry [beep] say again, please, buzz. You are cutting out. Mr. Aldrin i said the rocks are rather slippery. Roger. Mr. Aldrin very powdery surface. Fill up all the little very fine pores. Wally that would be armstrong detaching the camera, setting it up on a stand, then puts it back point it back in the entire lunar module. Getting ready to move the tv camera to its panorama position. Mr. Cronkite oh, the picture is inverted again. [laughter] aldrin start to lose my balance in one direction and recovery is quite natural and very easy. Moving your arms around, jack, doesnt lift you off the surface. Not quite that lightfooted. Armstrong i have the insulation off the mesa now. Mr. Aldrin got to be careful that you are leaning in the direction you want to go, you slightly inebriated. You have to cross your foot over to stay underneath where your center of mass is. Walter [laughs] mr. Aldrin hey, neil, didnt i say we might see some purple rocks . Mr. Armstrong find a purple rock . Mr. Aldrin yep. Mr. Cronkite sounds so happy. Just beaming over there. Small. Rin very sparkly. Some sort of ofe a first guess, some sort we will leave that to the further analysis. Mr. Cronkite buzz aldrins transmissions are not breaking up. Mr. Aldrin quarter of an inch. Mr. Armstrong ok, houston. I am going to change lenses on you. Roger, neil. Wally they have three lenses, i believe. 90eangle man millimeter. Mr. Armstrong ok, houston. Some if you are getting a picture. Neal, this is houston, that is affirmative. Go. Systems are over. Mr. Aldrin we appreciate that, thank you. Mr. Cronkite i believe the camera is still in the mesa tray. Cant tell if it is a wider view. Mr. Aldrin neil is now unveiling the plaque. Roger, we have got you foresighted. [beep] mr. Armstrong put it like that and walk around it. Good. Mr. Cronkite look at the reflection on the surface. Wed like to a new over to the right. Over. Mr. Armstrong ok. Mr. Aldrin that is all the cable we have. Mr. Cronkite the director is still in control. [laughter] a little too much to the right, can you bring it back left about four or five degrees . [beep] ok, that looks good, neil. Mr. Armstrong ok. Further away or closer . Mr. Aldrin cant get too much further away. Mr. Armstrong lets try it like that for a while. I will get a couple of panoramas with it here. Roger. You look ok as far as systems go. You are going to fast on the panorama sweep. You will have to stop. Mr. Armstrong i have not set it down yet. That is the first picture of the panorama. Right there. Roger. Mr. Armstrong does that look a lot like you thought it might look. Wally yes it does. They are doing such a fine job. Mr. Armstrong tell me if you got a picture, houston . We got a beautiful picture, neil. Mr. Armstrong ok, i am going to move it. Mr. Aldrin ok, here is another good one. Ok, weve got that one. Is rightrong this one downsun. I want to know if you can see the angular rock in the foreground. Roger, we have a large rock foreground. Looks like a much smaller rock a couple inches to the left of it. Over. It aboutrong beyond 10 feet is another larger rock. , the closest want to about sticking out, it is a foot and a half long, and about six inches thick. Roger. Mr. Aldrin ok, neil. Ive got the table out and i have a bag deployed. View, neil. This mr. Armstrong this is straight south. Roger. We see the shadow of the lm. Mr. Armstrong the little hill just beyond the shadow of the lm ,s a pair of elongated craters about 40 feet long and 20 feet across. Probably six feet deep. We will probably get some more work in there later. [breeze blowing] s we see buzz. Mr. Armstrong how is that for a final . For a final orientation, wed like it took him left about five degrees. Over. Now, back to the right about half as much. Mr. Armstrong ok. Mr. Aldrin ok, that looks good there, neil. Mr. Armstrong ok. One hour in seven minutes time expended. Wally looks like he is casually walking. Incidentally, you can use the shadow the staff makes to assist you getting it perpendicular. Wally buzz is erecting the experiment now. Mr. Cronkite the solar wind is something you feel against your cheek. Mr. Aldrin it has stopped. Maybe two or three inches. Showed what the pictures when they pushed away a little bit. Transmittede through the upper surface of the soil and about five or six inches that breaks loose and moses if it were moves as if it were caked on the surface, when in fact it really isnt. Noticed in thei soft spots, where we have footprints nearly an inch deep that the soil is very cohesive. A slope of probably 70 degrees along the side of the footprints. I sure hope there is no area that is blacked out from the television right now. Mr. Cronkite while there is, russia, the soviet, and china. It is a shame, more than a fourth of the world are being denied this picture by their rulers. Most of the rest of the world, though, including in other communist nations, it is being displayed, including eastern europe. Youve got to see the footprints. Wally i agree. Mr. Cronkite man leaving his footprints on the moon. Without any atmosphere, no wind or rain to wear them away. They might stay there for quite a long time. His is armstrong wally he cant believe it. Get that part . That is the rock. Wally they are collecting now the rock samples. These are the ones they will it in a bag and then into the box, the vacuum box. You will have to extend that one. Wally looks like the core they are driving down. Cant really film. Columbia. A, this is houston. Over. Wally they have got a core, a piece of pipe, in effect, that they attach onto the saddle. Neil armstrong has been on the surface now about 45 minutes. Wally they hammer that into the surface and get a sample down below the actual surface, which they already have contaminated with the engine and with their presence. They have to go below, under the contamination, down to almost a foot or so, i think. 16 inches. Wally 16 inches. Houston, columbia on the high again. Over. Columbia, this is houston, reading you lot and clear. Over. Reading you loud and clear. How is it going . Roger. The eva is progressing beautifully. I believe they are setting up the flag now. Great. I guess youre about the only person around that doesnt have tv coverage of the scene. Flag, not the the core sample. [laughter] mr. Cronkite he doesnt mind a bit not having the television right now. How is the quality of the tv . It is beautiful, mike. It really is. They have the flag up now. You can see the stars and stripes on the lunar surface. Beautiful. Just beautiful wally the flag is on a frame, there is no wind, though. It is a three foot or five foot flag with a frame of its own to hold it up. Do you need to call that end . Over. Mr. Cronkite seems like they ought to lay some music. [laughter] ok. Mr. Cronkite looks like they are having a little trouble getting that into the surface. Wally lightly, he moves back. I think they are taking pictures of each other with the camera. Yep, exactly what they are doing. The fast tourists the first tourists on the moon. Mr. Cronkite from their description, sounds like i a place we would like to go to after all. Magnificent desolation. Different from the united. States desert. Those on the surface think there is something about it. Neil, this is houston. Radio check. Over. Mr. Armstrong houston, loud and clear. Mr. Aldrin loud and clear, houston. Roger, buzz. Wally they can claim it for now, at least. Claim it under the declaration of the United Nations resolution which we all agreed to, that we would not claim them own or use it for military purposes. So this planting of the flag is not the old 15th, 16th, 17th century planting a flag and claim territory. It is to put the United States flag there to let the world know that we are there. The sense of pride the American People feel that this tremendous accomplishment. Mr. Aldrin i believe i am out of your field of view, is that right, houston . Affirmative, buzz. You are in our field of view now. Mr. Aldrin you do have to be careful to keep track of where your center of mass is. Make sure youve got your feet underneath you. [laughter] mr. Cronkite that powder. Mr. Aldrin a fairly smooth stop. Mr. Cronkite looks like it is getting pretty frisky up there. Oh, beautiful. Cut a little bit. Seems like you forward ability is not quite as good. Trying to see what they might see. Mr. Aldrin it gets rather tiring. Thismay be a function of suit as well as the lack of Gravity Force here. Tranquility base, this is houston. Can we get both of you in the frame, please . Wally i think we are going to have an announcement here. Mr. Armstrong roger, we are about to get in the frame of the camera. Mr. Cronkite yeah, i think something important is