buzz aldrin came in and took the center seat to join neil armstrong and mike collin. work continues on a leaky valve, technicians still hard at work tightening bolts around the valve at this time. good morning neil. good morning. welcome aboard. how do you read? loud and clear. good morning, buzz. good morning. how are you gentleman? just fine. thank you. let me make a check here. any adjustments on your straps? roger. thank you, gunter. see you around, gunter. all right. roger. squequence 441. the hatch is closed, and we re givening to purge the cabin to bring it to the proper
38-year-old civilian neil alden armstrong is to become the first human being to touch the moon. aldrin will follow just 20 minutes later, but armstrong will take that first step. the mission of apollo 11, a story for the history books, leaving this planet to set foot on the moon. roger, 563 verified. all stations stand by to give a crew departure status at this time. ss 111. go ahead. go.
engine but very insignificant amount. roger, neil. we re reading you loud and clear. see you getting some pictures and the contingency sample. interesting, it s a very soft surface but here and there be i plug with the contingency sample collector, i run into very hard surface, but it appears to be a very cohesive material of the same sort. i ll try to get a rock in here. that looks beautiful from here, neil. it has a beauty all its own. it s like much of the high desert of the united states. it s different but it s very pretty out here. is that in the pocket? yeah, push down. got it? no, it s not all the way in. push it. there you go.
neil armstrong will be doing most of the work in the spacecraft, responding as different queue lights signify different difficulties presented to him. our contact continuing. this kennedy launch control. nasa officials, 5,000 guests in all including some 400 congressmen, members of the supreme court, presidential cabinet. the nasa official who escorted us to this site today called it a circus. t minus 61 minutes on the apollo 11 countdown and all elements are go at this time. here in the firing room, the launch vehicle test team keeping a close eye on the status of the propellants aboard the vehicle. the problem with the leaking
atmosphere for launch which is a combination of oxygen and nitrogen. 60% oxygen and 40% nitrogen. of course the astronauts themselves are breathing pure oxygen through their space suits. coming up shortly will be another key test in which hopefully march vehicle crew and the spacecraft crew will command together with the commander neil armstrong to make an check of the signal. this signal will alert if anything goes wrong below this. this will take some 30 minutes.