looks good, mike. okay. we re all yours. roger. communications are somewhat scratchy. columbia and eagle now reunited to become apollo 11 again. apollo 11, houston, got minute and a half to l.o.s. looking great. been a mighty fine day. boy, you re not kidding. armstrong and aldrin transferring back to the command module with mike collins. houston, this is columbia reading you loud and clear. we re all three back inside. the hatch is installed. we re running a pressure check. everything is going well. rog, how does it feel up there to have some company? damn good, i ll tell you.
now i want to back up and partially close the hatch. making sure not to lock it on my way out. good thought. that s our home for the next couple hours. we want to take good care of it. you ve got three more steps and then a long one. beautiful view. isn t that something? magnificent sight out here. magnificent desolation. okay, houston, i m going to change lenses on you. roger, neil. we re getting a new picture. you can tell it s a longer focal length lens. for those who haven t read the plaque we ll read the plaque that s on the front landing gear of this lem. here men from the planet earth first set foot upon the moon, july 1969. we came in peace for all mankind. neil armstrong getting ready
buzz, this is houston. radio check and verify tv circuit breaker in. roger. tv circuit breaker s in. roger. and we re getting a picture on the tv. you had a good picture, huh? there s a great deal of contrast in it and currently it s upside down on our monitor but we can make out a fair amount of detail. okay. i m at the foot of the ladder. the lem foot beds are only depressed in the surface about one or two inches, although the surface appears to be very, very fine grained as you get close to
roger, we copy. as the two vehicles come around on the 26th lunar revolution, mike collins aboard columbia is springloaded to do what is called a mirror image maneuver. okay. coming in. columbia, i ve got 470 now.
roger. guidance officer reports the command module computer looks good and the guidance and navigation system is go. 11, houston, going over the hill shortly. looking mighty fine to us. see you later. there s the horizon. at the horizon now.