There is a great deal of contrast in it, currently it is upside down on the monitor but we can make out a fair amount of detail. Will you verify the position of the opening of the camera . There is, a foot coming down the steps. You coming can see down the ladder now. Ok, i checked. It is adequate to get back up, it is a smooth the jump. There is a foot on the moon. Stepping on the moon. He must be stepping down on the moon at this point. This is houston. Shadow photography on the camera. Im at the foot of the latter. Ladder. Is only depressed into the surface a few inches. The surface is very finegrained , almost like a powder. Very fine. Walter look at those pictures. A little shadowy, but they expected that in the shadow of the lunar module. Armstrong is on the moon. Neil armstrong, standing on the service of the moon. This july 20, 1969. Neil that is one small step for mankind. Giant leap for i think that was neils quote. One small step for man, but i did not get a second phrase. The surface is fine and powdery. I can pick it up loosely with my 1toe. It is an fine layers like powdered charcoal. Walter that is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil the footprints of my boot, the treads are in the fine particles. Houston this is houston, we are copying. Thank you television for letting us watch this one. It is something. There seems to be no difficulty in moving around. Easier than the various simulations we performed on the ground. Around. Le to walk walter that is good news. Neil we have about one foot clearance on the ground, we are on a very level place. Of rasee some evidence ys imitating, but very insignificant amount. They need to fix that simulation. Walter yeah. Were getting a negative picture back, they switched to negative polarity. We are in good shape. Looks like it is coming out nice and evenly. Neil it is turkey are in a shadow and hard for me to see. I will work my way into the sunlight without looking directly at the sun. Walter i dont know why the picture is negative clarity, we hope to get it fixed quickly. Unofficial time on the first 24 20. , dont hold it quite so tight. Walter this is like a close line that will bring down a sequence camera for pictures. Lem, imking at the standing in the shadow looking up at the windows, and i can see everything quite clearly. Bright onsufficiently the front of the lem that everything is clearly visible. Walter mans first words, Neil Armstrongs first words, after setting foot on the moon are one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,. He found the bottom step of the latter slightly awry but says it gave him no difficulty in climbing back up to the lunar module. He has found the surface far more powdery than they anticipated, sinking in about 1 8 of an inch, his footprints in the particles, lunar dust on his boot. No more difficulty moving around and simulations on earth. About 25 minutes of activity alone on the earths surface, testing the environment and moving around, taking a good look at the lunar module, which seems to be in good shape. There is little scoring of the moons surface by the engine. It settled nicely but not very neatly into the fine, powdery surface of the moon. It is an good position to provide the platform for takeoff. We have heard something about that. Houston surgeon says the crew is doing well. They are not over exerting, i gather. Not using too much oxygen or using too much heat for the cooling system. One of our concerns are raised. Erased. Neil im going to take some of my first pictures here. Walter he has a camera with him , it is not the sequence camera. Houston we are reading you loud and clear. Walter i think the flight plan called for him to take the samples first and then the pictures. As i have recalled in my reading , the contingency sample minutes expended now. Walter it is confirmed they are on a level place there, which is good, and partly because of his own skill and making the manual landing, it looks like they were coming down in a rough area. Neil is not that gathering of an gathering a contingency sample because he feels there isnt a contingency. Houston, do you copy about the contingency sample . Neil i will get to that just as soon as i vanish thes pictures peered as soon as i finish these pictures. Walter you might be right about what is in his mind, because the contingency sample, if they continue with the walk and get documented samples of rocks, where they identify where they got it and pictures of where they got it. But the contingency sample first. Make sure they get a pocket full of surface rock. Make sure they get something. Beautifully. O walter they are moving around, and the exertion they are is a great thing they have learned already. Neil im going to get the contingency sample. Walter hes got to get tired of the pictures and get the contingency sample. Nag. Nag, he stepped out of the video, i wonder what he is up to now. Neil the contingency sample is down. Difficult to dig through the crust. Surface, butoft ,hen i dig with the collector it is a very hard surface. Cohesive. To be very got this little ist of bag on a rim he dragging across the surface, and as he reports, it is kind of in. To get it in peered neil it is like the high desert of the United States. It is different but very pretty appear. Walter very pretty. Neil a lot of the hard rock they appear toe, be on the surface. Walter they appear to be what . Rock. Ical of volcanic [indiscernible] neil im sure i could push it in further. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] hit it back once more. More toward the inside. That is good. Neil in the pockets . Push down. Got it . Neil. Neil the sample is in the pocket, oxygen is 81 , i have no flags and i am a minimum flow. Houston this is houston, roger neil. Buzz i have the cameras on at one frame a second. Neil ok. 80 , no flags. Neil are you getting a tv picture now houston . Houston yes we are. Neil, this is houston, we are getting a picture, we can see the bag being moved by buzz. Walter hey, look at the bounding step. Buzz are you ready for me to come out . Neil just let me get this over the handrail. Walter talk about being super casual. Hope it doesnt get too casual. Buzz are you ready . Neil all set. You saw what difficulties i was having, i will try to watch you from underneath. Walter aldrin about to emerge apparently from the spacecraft. Armstrong is going to try to help guide him from below. Neil ok, your foot looks like it is clear and ok. Ok, now drop your foot down, you are clear. Good, about anre inch clear. Ok, i need a little bit of arching of the back to come down. How far a mighty feet are my feet from the end . A small foot movement, arch, arching of the back. And clears without any trouble at all. Neil that is good. Houston 45 minutes pls time expended. Walter 45 minutes out of a total of one hour. Houston neil, do you foresee any problems with src transfer . Neil negative peered negative. Walter that is the sample rocks container. This camera angle makes it look vastly higher than they are. [indiscernible] ok, im on the top step and i can look down over the rcu. Matter tory simple hop down from one step to the next. Comfortable,ery and walking is also very comfortable. Steps andhree more then a long one. Walter watch that last step. I guess they expected it to itpact more and as a result, is short. Neil there you go. Walter and now we have two americans on the moon. Buzz another inch. A good step, about a three footer. Walter and look at that. Buzz a beautiful view. Neil isnt that something . Walter like walking on a trampoline. Oh my. Words, beautiful view. [indiscernible]. Il i noticed that there are similar effects all around. Area, therein this is not a lot of fine powder, it is hard to tell if it is a rock. Up. you can pick it buzz it bounces. [indiscernible] reaching down fairly easy. Getting my suit dirty at this stage. The mass of the backpack has some effect. There is a slight tendency, i , backwards. Soft is a soft, very texture. Neil you are on a big rock right now. Very shortly now, armstrong is to take the camera out of the tray and move it out about 30 feet from the spacecraft so we have a view of the entire area. Buzz no crater there at all. Wonder if the crater under the engine is [indiscernible] i think thats a good representation of the velocity of touchdown. [indiscernible] neil [indiscernible] walter aldrin is following the flight plan. [indiscernible] visibility. It looks like mounted rock mounded rock. Rocks, there these is a very powdery surface houston say again, you are cutting out. Rather say the rocks are slippery. The powdery surface [indiscernible] they tend to slide over it easily. Armstrongat would be staring at the camera and removing the camera. He is moving it now. Armstrong getting ready to move the camera into panorama position. Walter the pictures in the very beginning. Buzz i lose my balance in one direction and recovery is very natural and easy. Moving arms around, not quite that light footed peered light footed. The mesa. Ve leanedake sure you are in the direction you want to go. You have to put your foot over to stay where year masses where your mass is. Didnt i say we might see some purple rocks . Neil you found a purple rocks . Sounds so happy. Just beaming over there. Very small. Sparkly. Fragments are back. I would make a first guess. We will leave that to the further analysis. Buzz aldrins transmissions are breaking up. Quarter of an inch. Ok, houston. I am going to change lenses on you. Roger, neil. They have three lenses, i believe. Wideangle, 90 millimeter. Ok, houston. You are getting a picture. Neal, this is houston, that is affirmative. All systems are go. Over. We appreciate that, thank you. I believe the camera is still in the mesa tray. Cant tell if it is a wider view. Neil is now unveiling the plaque. Roger, we have got you foresighted. Put it like that and walk around it. Good. Look at the reflection on the surface. Wed like to aim over to the right. Over. Ok. That is all the cable we have. 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 . Ok, that looks good, neil. Ok. Further away or closer . Cant get too much further away. 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. I have not set it down yet. That is the first picture of the panorama. Right there. Roger. Does that look a lot like you thought it might look. Wally yes it does. They are doing such a fine job. Tell me if you got a picture, houston . We got a beautiful picture, neil. Ok, i am going to move it. Ok, here is another good one. Ok, weve got that one. 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. Beyond it about 10 feet is a larger rock. That rock, the closest one to you is sticking out, it is about a foot and a half long, and about six inches thick. Roger. Ive got the table out and i have a bag deployed. Weve got this view, neil. Roger. We see the shadow of the lm. 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. For a final orientation, wed like it to come left about five degrees. Over. Now, back to the right about half as much. Ok. Ok, that looks good there, neil. Ok. One hour in seven minutes time expended. 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 well 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. You can 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. 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, columbia. This is houston. Over. Wally they have got a core, a piece of pipe, in effect, that they attach onto the saddle. Handle. 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. Wally this is the flag, not 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. 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 play some music. [chuckles] 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 first tourists on the moon. Mr. Cronkite from their description, sounds like a place we would like to go to after all. Magnificent desolation. Different from the United States desert. The first kind words about the moon. Up, they did not think it was so pretty. These fellows 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. 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 not the old 15th, 16th, 17th century 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 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. Kangaroo hop. Seems like your forward ability is not quite as good. Trying to see what they might see. Mr. Aldrin it gets rather tiring. This may be a function of this 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 coming up. Neil and buzz, the president of the United States is in the office now and what like to Say Something to you. Over. Mr. Armstrong that would be an honor. Go ahead, mr. President. This is houston out. Hello, neil and buzz. I am talking to you on telephone from the oval room in the white house. This has to be the most historic telephone call ever made from the white house. I cant tell you how proud we all are of what you have done. For every american, this has to be the proudest day of our lives. And for people all over the world, i am sure that they, too, join with americans in recognizing what an immense feat this is. Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of mans world. And as you talk to us from the sea of tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to earth. For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done and one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth. Mr. Armstrong thank you, mr. President. It is a great honor and privilege for us to be here representing not only the United States, but men of peace of all nations, and with interest and curiosity, and men with a vision for the future. Its an honor for us to be able to participate here today. President nixon thank you, very much. All of us look forward to seeing you on thursday. Mr. Armstrong thank you. Mr. Aldrin look forward to that very much, sir. Mr. Cronkite splashdown should be on thursday in honolulu, hawaii. Roger, i have the b22 for you. Mr. Armstrong roger, go ahead. P22, landmark i. D. , t11102656. T211032 mr. Cronkite they are reading off the Engineering Data again. 110340. Mr. Cronkite electrical storm in flagstaff, arizona has denied the picture of this landing to the people at the geological laboratory. They have worked and slaved on this thing for years and now they are not getting the picture because of the electrical storm. Similarly, an electrical storm in falls church, virginia and college park, maryland. Getting the picture, either. Mr. Aldrin it is very interesting to note that when i kick my foot, there is no atmosphere here. They seem to leave and most of them have the same angle of departure and velocity. From where i stand, a large portion of them will impact at a certain distance south. The percentage that will impact different regions south. Highly dependent upon the initial trajectory upwards from where most already the particles are. Roger, buzz. Columbia, this is houston. When you track out, must request omni delta. Omni delta. Over. Ti