Weekend, every weekend. We are getting a picture on the tv. Picture . Ve a good it is upside down on our monitors. Her would you verify the position of the opening on the camera . There it is. A foot is coming. Down the steps. Can youommonweal, we coming down. Neil. Ok, we can see you coming down the steps. There is a for on the , stepp. Buzz, this is houston. Standby for shadow photography. I am at the foot of the ladder. It is like a fine powder down there. A little shadowy. Is on the moon. The surface of the moon. That is one small step for man and one giant the for mankind. I did not get the second phrase. This is very fine and powdery. It is a fine layer. I can see the footprint of my boots making a trail. This is houston. We copy. Isnt this something. There seems to be no difficulty in Walking Around here. We are getting a negative picture back. I will put down the camera. It looks like it is coming out favorably. It is pretty dark here in the shadow. Will make my way over to the sunlight. The picture has gone to negative polarity. You can see Neil Armstrong there. [indiscernible] ok. Sit tight. Clothesline. A going onto a sequence camera now. I am standing directly in the shadow. Looking up, i am standing directly in the shadow now and i 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 ladder, slightly awry, but has no difficulty in climbing back up to the lunar module when they complete this walk. Found the surface more powdery than anticipated. He is sinking 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. Apparently it is in position for to provide the platform for takeoff. Sergeant says the crew is doing well. I am still in the lec. 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, another one of our concerns erased. The race 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. Will will as i recall in all my reading, the contingency samples will 35 and a half minutes expended now. Mr. Cronkite he has confirmed that they are on a very level place 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 elected not to get a contingency 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 . Mr. Armstrong 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 superfluous 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 in 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 across the surface. As he reports there, it is hard to get everything in. Mr. Armstrong 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 in the surface. Mr. Cronkite difficult . Wally vesicles. [beep] houston. Roger. Ok, the handle is off 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. Mr. Armstrong you can really throw things along way up. Mr. Armstrong is my pocket open, buzz . 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. Mr. Armstrong contingency sample is in the pocket. Oxygen is 81 . I have no flags, and im in minimum flow. [beep] this is houston. Roger, neil. Mr. Aldrin ok, i have the camera on that one frame a second. Mr. Armstrong ok. Mr. Aldrin and i have got 80 oxygen. No flags. Mr. Armstrong are you getting a tv picture now, houston . Neil, yes we are getting a tv picture. 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. Mr. Cronkite 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. Mr. Cronkite the src is 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] ok, i am on the top step 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 rung up. Mr. Armstrong tomorrow. Add another inch. You got it . Mr. Aldrin that is a good step. Mr. Armstrong 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. Buzz 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 . Mr. Aldrin it is hard to tell whether it is a or a rock. Mr. Armstrong notice how you can kick it out. Mr. Aldrin yeah, it bounces. Mr. Cronkite look at this. [laughter] mr. Aldrin 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 can see now, to backwards due to the soft, very soft texture. Mr. Armstrong you are standing on a big rock there now. Wally 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 where the probe hit. Mr. Armstrong i think that is a good representation of the velocity down there. Mr. Aldrin i see that probe over on the minusy strut. Mr. Cronkite following the flight plan and testing. Mr. Aldrin cant say too much for the visibility. Very dark. Surface of a flat, rounded rock. Incidentally, these rocks are very powdery surfaced. [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] mr. 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. Mr. 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, otherwise 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. Mr. Aldrin very small. Sparkly. Some sort of take a first guess, some sort of 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. Wideangle 90 millimeter. Mr. Armstrong ok, houston. Some if you are getting a picture. Neal, this is houston, that is affirmative. All systems are go. 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 too 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. Mr. Armstrong this one is right downsun. I want to know if you can see the angular rock in the foreground. Roger, we have a large rock in the foreground. Looks like a much smaller rock a couple inches to the left of it. Over. Mr. Armstrong beyond it about 10 feet is another larger rock. That rock, the closest want to you is sticking out, it is about 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. Weve got this view, neil. 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 is 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] 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 and 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 solar wind experiment now. Mr. Cronkite the solar wind is something you feel against your cheek. Mr. Aldrin it has stopped. Maybe two or three inches. Exactly what the pictures showed when they pushed away a little bit. You get force transmitted through the upper surface of the soil and about five or six inches that breaks loose and moves as if it were caked on the surface, when in fact it really isnt. Mr. Armstrong i noticed in the 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. This is armstrong. Wally he cant believe it. Wally he cant believe it. Wally he cant believe it. Get that part . That is the rock. Mr. Cronkite they are areecting now the rock samples. Collecting now the rock samples. These are the ones they will collect into a bag and then put into the box, the vacuum box. You will have to extend that one. Mr. Cronkite looks like the core they are driving down. Cant really film. Columbia, columbia. This is houston. Over. Wally they have got a core, a piece of pipe, in effect, that they attach onto this handle. Neil armstrong has been on the lunar surface now almost 45 minutes. Wally they can hammer that into the surface and get a sample down below the actual surface, which they already have contaminated with the engine and by their presence. Then get down below that contamination and also get a sample down to almost a foot or so, i think. 16 inches. Wally 16 inches. Something more than they can get by scraping the surface itself. Houston, columbia on the high again. Over. Columbia, this is houston, reading you loud and clear. Over. Reading you loud and clear. How is it going . Roger. The eva is progressing 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. Wally this is the flag, not the core sample. Thats right, i dont mind a bit. 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. Flag on it is, the u. S. The surface of a moon. Is it halfway decent . Yes, it 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 to hold it out like that. Five flag andby five flag it has a frame of its own to hold it up. In . O you need to pull that nothing more needed here, but it does seem like there ought to be some music. [chuckles] ok. Mr. Cronkite looks like they are having a little trouble getting that driven 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 first tourists on the moon. Mr. Cronkite from their description, sounds like someplace we would like to go to after all. Magnificent desolation. Armstrong, stark beauty all its own. Different from the United States desert, but very pretty out here. Pretty out here. As you said, wally, the first kind words about the moon from 16 miles up or even 10 miles up, apollo 10 did not think it was so pretty. These fellows on the surface think there is something about it. This is houston. Radio check, over. Mr. Cronkite maybe they think it is not so pretty, but it is their own. Wally i like the idea of not claiming it, but i think they can claim it for now, at least. Mr. Cronkite they cant claim it under the declaration of the United Nations resolution which we all agreed to, that we would not claim the moon or use it for military purposes. So this planting of the flag is military purposes. So this planting of the flag is not the old 15th, 16th, 17th century business of planting a flag and claiming 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 in this tremendous accomplishment and the contribution they have made. 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 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. Sometimes it takes two or three paces to make sure you have got your feet underneath you. Mr. Cronkite that powder. Two or three or maybe four easy paces can bring you to a smooth stop. Mr. Cronkite looks like it is getting pretty frisky up there. Change direction. Mr. Cronkite all, beautiful. Cut a little bit. Socalled kangaroo hop. Seems like your forward ability is not quite as good. As it is in the more conventional one foot after another. As far as what a pace might be, it is the one i am using now. Would get rather lift up your right foot. Toes stillyour hooked in it. You are clear now. Thank you. Lets move that over. Scoopl armstrong has the for the bulk sample collection. They have about another hour and 25 minutes of extra vehicular activity before the hatch will be closed. They have completely now. Peared now i still dont know exactly what color to describe this other than grayish cocoa color. Very fine particles. Buzz, this is houston. You are cutting out on the end of your transmission. Can you speak more closely into the microphone . I will try that. I had one inside my mouth that time. It sounded a little wet. Neil has been on the surface for an hour now