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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1969, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press. Moon supplement. Monday. July 2s, 1969 it s us different but it s very pretty out Here Armstrong excerpts of transcript of Moon Earth talk Houston a _ Here is Tow conversation Between mis Sion control Here and Tranquillity base beginning As astronaut Neil Armstrong left the Landing Craft Eagle to pre cede astronaut Edwin Aldrin onto the surface of the a atm the Hatch opened Aldrin talked Armstrong through his manoeuvres with a television camera and Backpack through the Eagle s exit Aldrin up now you re clean now move it toward me. Straight Down. Relax a Little bit. Plenty of room. Have you lined up nicely. To Ward me a Little bit. Down. Okay now you re Clear you re touching the hinge Armstrong what hinge Marta Roll to the left. Okay now y o u r e Clear. You re lined up on the plat form. Move your left foot to the right a Little bit. Okay that s Good Armstrong Okay now i m Gonna Check Here. Aldrin Okay you re not quite squared away. Go to the go right a Little. Now you re even that s Good. Got plenty of room to your left. It s too close on the us other Side. Armstrong How am i doing Aldrin you re doing Fine. Aldrin All right now you want this bag Armstrong yeah. Got it. Okay Houston i m on the porch. My Roger Neil. Aldrin Okay stand by Neil. My Columbia Columbia this is Houston. One minute 30 seconds to los All systems go Over. Armstrong need a Little Slack Armstrong i need More Slack Buzz Aldrin no hold it just a minute. Armstrong Okay. Aldrin Okay everything s Nice and straight in Here. Armstrong Okay can you pall the door open a Little More i m Gonna pull it now Houston the Mesa came Down All right. My this is Houston. Roger we copy and we re standing by for your to. Armstrong Houston this is radio Check.? Mcneil this is Houston loud and Clear. Break break. Buzz this is Houston radio Check and verify to circuit breaker s in. Aldrin Koger to circuit breaker s in loud and Clear. My Roger. And we re get Ting a picture on the to Armstrong you had a Good picture huh my a great Deal of contrast in it and currently it s upside Down on our Moni Tor but we can make out a fair amount of detail. Aldrin Okay would you verify the position us the opening i had to have on the camera my stand by. Okay Neil we can see you coming Down the ladder now. Armstrong of i just checked getting Back up to that first step ladder did t collapse too far but it s adequate to get Back up. A pretty Good Little Lump. My Buzz this is Houston f-2, one one sixtieth second for Ilia Dow photography on the sequence camera. Aldrin Okay. Armstrong i m at the fool of the ladder the Lem foot pads Are Only depressed in the surface about us one or two inches although the surface appears to be very very Fine grained As you get close to it. It s almost like a powder Down there. It s very Fine. I m going to step off the pm now. That s one Small step for Man one giant leap for Man kind. Armstrong the surface is Fine and powdery. I can pick it up loosely with my toe. The dirt adhered in Fine layers like powdered charcoal to the us to the sole and insides of my boots. I Only go in of an eighth of an Inch but i can see footprints of my boots and the treads and the Fine Sandy particles. Mcneil this is Houston we re copying. Armstrong there seems to be no difficulty in moving around As we suspected. It s even perhaps easier than the simulations of one sixth g one sixth Gravity that we performed in various simulations on the ground. No Trou ble to walk around. Okay the descent engine did not leave a Crater of any size. Its us there s about one foot Clear Ance from the ground. We re essentially on a very level place Here. I can see some evidence of rays emanating from the descent engine but very insignificant amount. Okay buz., we re ready to bring Down the other camera. Aldrin have to pay out All the Lowr equipment looks like its coming out Nice and evenly. Ava Tomt Okay its quite dark Here in the Shadow and a Little hard for me to see that i have Good footing. I la work my Way Over into the sunlight Here without looking directly into the Sun. Aldrin Okay. Aldrin say i think you re pulling the wrong one Armstrong i m just Okay i m ready to pull it Down now. There s still a Little left in the Aldrin Okay Don t hold it quite so tight. Armstrong Okay. Armstrong i joking up at the pm i m standing directly in the Shadow now looking up at Buzz in the window and i can see everything quite clearly. The Light is sufficiently Bright Back lighted into the front of the Lem but every thing is very clearly visible stalled on the ecu Remote control unit bracket. Armstrong still in the leg on the secondary struts Aldrin i la step out and take some of my first pictures Here. My Roger Neil weve Reading you loud and Clear getting some pictures and the contingency Sample. Mcneil this is Houston did you copy about the Contin gency Sample Over. Armstrong Roger Gonna get to that just As soon As we finish these pictures Aldrin Okay Gonna get the contingency Sample Armstrong right. Aldrin Okay that s Good. Okay the contingency Sample is Down it s a Little difficult to dig through the crust Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon july 1969, a d. We came in peace for All Mankind Neft a. Astronaut astronaut Towin f. .11. This Statts is the plaque left on the lunar surface by astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin Armstrong it s very inter Esting. It s a very soft sur face. But Here and there where i plug with the Contin gency Sample collector i run into very hard surface but it appears to be very cohesive material of the same sort. Try to get a Rock in Here. Just a couple. Aldrin a that looks Beautiful from Here Neil. Armstrong it has a Stark Beauty All its own. It s like much of the highest desert of the United states. It s us Dif Ferent but it s very pretty out Here. Be advised that a lot of the Jock samples out Here the hard Rock samples have what appear to be vesicles Small thin walled cavities in the surface my Houston Roger out. Aldrin Okay the handle is off the it s about of six or eight inches into the sur face Armstrong i m sure i could push it in farther but it s hard for me to push the end Down further than that. You can really throw things a Long Way up Here. Armstrong that pocket open Buzz Aldrin yes it is. It s not up against your suit though. Hit it Back once More. More to Ward the inside. Okay that s Good. Armstrong that in the pocket Aldrin yeah push Down. Armstrong that it Aldrin no it s not All the Way in. Push it. There you go. Armstrong contingency Sample is in the pocket. I us oxygen is 81 per cent. I m in minimum flow. My this is Houston Roger Neil. Aldrin Okay. Aldrin and i be got eight Zero per cent Armstrong Are you getting a to picture now Houston Mcneil yes we Are get Ting a picture. You re not in it at the present time. We can see the bag on the lec being moved by Buzz though. Here you come into our Field of View. Aldrin now i m Gonna Back up and partially close the Hatch. Making sure not to lock it on my Way out. Armstrong a pretty Good thought. Aldrin it s our Home for the couple of hours and we wanta take Good care of it. Aldrin Okay i m on the top step and i can look Down Over the Ria and it s a very simple matter to hop Down from one step to the next. Armstrong i found it to be very comfortable and walk ing is also very comfortable. You take three More Steps and then a Long one. Aldrin i m going to leave that one foot up there and both hands Down to about the fourth rung up. Armstrong there you go. Aldrin Okay now i think i la do the same. Armstrong Little More about another Inch. There you got it. Aldrin it s a Good step. Armstrong yeah about a three footer. Aldrin Beautiful View. Armstrong in t that some thing magnificent sight out Here. Aldrin magnificent Desola Tion. Aldria looks like the secondary strut had a Little ther Mal effects on it right Here Neil. Armstrong yeah i noticed that. That s the seems to be the worst although similar effects Are on Uhall around. Aldrin very very Fine pow Der in t it Armstrong in t this Fine Aldrin right in this area i Don t think there s much of anything Fine powder hard to Tell whether it s a clod or a Rock. Armstrong now you can pick it out. Aldrin yeah and it bounces and then Aldrin reaching Down fairly easy. Getting my suit dirty at this stage. The mass of the Backpack does have some effect there s a Light tendency i can see now to us backwards dus to the soft very soft texture. Armstrong yeah you re standing on a Rock Aldrin no Crater there at All from the engine. Armstrong no. Aldrin i wonder if that right under the engine is where might have hit Side like that Armstrong yeah that a i think that s a Good representation of our Side Ward velocity at touchdown folded the probe. Aldrin Well see that probe Over on the us the minus a strut broken off Armstrong yeah it did did t it. Other two both Bent Over. Aldrin can t say too much for the visibility right Here without the visor up Inci dentally these rocks very powdery surface my say again please Buzz you re cutting out. Armstrong adn Houston Aldrin i say the rocks Are rather Slippery. My Roger. Aldrin powdery surface when it s on there it s filled up All the very Little Fine pores of his suit tend to slide Over it rather easily. Armstrong traction quite Good least in our area. Aldrin about to lose my balance in one direction and recovery is quite natural and very easy. And moving our arms ground does t not quite that Light footed. Armstrong i have the Insu lation off the Mesa Modularized equipment stowage As Sembly now and the Mesa seems to be in Good shape. Aldrin have to be careful that you re leaning in the direction you wanta go. Other Wise you in other words you have to Cross your foot Over to stay underneath where your Centre of mass is. Aldrin and Neil did t i say we might see some purple Rooks Armstrong find a purple Rock Aldrin nope. Very Small sparkly fragments Are in places first guess is some sort of biotite a Brown Mica you Don t dig Down More than a Quarter of an Inch apparently refer ring to Armstrong Okay Houston. I m Gonna change lenses on you. My Roger Neil. Armstrong Okay Houston Tell me if you be got a new picture. Mcneil this is Houston. That s affirmative. We re get Ting a new picture. You can Tell it s a longer focal length Lens. And for your information All pm systems Are go Over. Armstrong we appreciate that thank you. Aldrin Neil is now unveil ing the plaque my Roger we be got you foresighted out Back to one Side Armstrong we h a v e n t read the plaque Well read the plaque that s on the front Landing gear of this pm. This is two hemispheres one show ing each of the two Hemi spheres of Earth. Underneath it says Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon july 1969, and. They came in peace for All it has the Crew members signatures and the signature of the president of the United states. Armstrong ready for the camera i la get it Aldrin i m afraid these materials get Dusty. The surface material is us powdery. I Don t know How Good your Lens is but if you can very much like a very finely powdered Armstrong you us pull out some of my Cable for me Buzz i Aldrin Houston How close Are you Able to get things in focus. My this is Houston. We can see Buzz s right hand. It s somewhat out of focus. I d say we were focusing Down to probably of about eight niches to a foot to behind the position of his hand where he s pulling out the Cable. Aldrin Okay How s the temperature look on there Armstrong temperature of the camera is showing cold. Aldrin i m a Little Cool i think i la change i m on intermediate now Houston and i show Point seven eight seventh four and Well probably need a Little camera. Neil look at the minus the direction of travel there look from right to left. So this one Over Here underneath the ascent engine probe first hit Armstrong i got plenty of Cable. Aldrin you get plenty plenty More. Okay i think i go the end of it. Armstrong something interesting in the Bottom of this Little Crater Here us maybe u Al Kirin keep going we got we got a lot More. Armstrong Okay. Aldrin getting a Little harder to pull out Here. Public information officer you stand on the ladder fac ing Forward the minus a strut is the Landing gear to your left. Armstrong How far i am Buzz Aldrin forty 50 feet. Why Don t you turn around and let us let them get a View from there and see what the Field of View looks like you re backing into the Cable Armstrong Okay. Aldrin turn around to your right be better. Armstrong i Don t want to go into the Sun if i can avoid h Aldrin that s right yeah. Armstrong i la just leave it sit like that and walk around it. Aldrin Okay you can make a Mark Houston at and incidentally you can use the Shadow that the one of these Small depressions two to three inches i can see exactly what the Surveyor pictures showed when they pushed away a Little bit through the upper surface of the soil and about five or six inches Breaks Loose caked on the surface when in fact it really in t. Armstrong i noticed where we had footprints nearly an Inch deep but the soil is very cohesive will re Tain a slope of probably 7c de Grees. Aldrin that end come off a Mitrof the Rock Here. Amron Well have to extent that one. My Columbia Columbia this is Houston. Aos acquisition of Over. Collins Houston Columbia on the High gain Over. My Columbia this is hous ton Reading you loud and Clear Over. Collins Heah read you loud and Clear. How s it going my Roger the Eva is pro Gressing beautifully. I believe they re setting up the Flag now. Collins great my i guess you re about the Only person around that does t have to coverage of the scene. Collins Roger and i Don t mind a bit. How s the Quality of the to. My of it s b e a u t i f u 1, Mike. Really is. Collins of gee that s great. Is the lighting Halfway decent my yes indeed. They be got the Flag up now and you see the stars and stripes on the lunar surface. Collins Beautiful just Beautiful f my Roger we d like to get both of you in the Field of View of our camera for a minute. Neil and Buzz the president of the United states is in his office now and would like to say a few words to you Over. Armstrong that would be an Honor. My Columbia Columbia this is Houston Over. My go ahead or. Presi Dent this is Houston out. President Nixon hello Neil and Buzz i m talking to you by Telephone from the Oval room at the White House. And this certainly has to be the most historic Telephone Call Ever made. I just can t Tell you How proud we All Are of what you be done. For every american this has to be the proudest Day of tour lives. And for people All Over the world i am sure they too join with America in recognizing what an immense feat this is. Because of what you have done the heavens have be come a part of Man s world. And As you talk to us from the sea of Tranquillity it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment in the whole history of Man All the people of this Earth Are truly in their Pride in what you have done and one in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth. Armstrong thank you or. President. It s 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 a curiosity and men with a vision for the future. It s an Honor for us to be Able to participate Here today. President Nixon and thank you very much and i look for Ward All of us look Forward to seeing you on the Hornet on thursday. Aldrin look Forward to that very much sir. Marta it was reported be forehand that we would Proba Bly see an out gassing from the surface after actual engine shutdown but i recall i was unable to verify that. Aldreta just too big an Angle Neil. Armstrong yep i think you re right. Aldreta we re Back at the minus a strut now very Little Force of Impact that we actually had. And Neil if you la take the camera i la us work on the my Columbia Columbia this is Houston. Marta Stop and take photograph of something and then wants Start moving again sideways have a tendency to Start doing it with gradual sideways hops can you see us underneath the us Lem Over the Seq so identified experiments to the left on the Moon Bay Houston my yes indeed Buzz we can see your feet sticking out underneath the Structure of the Lem descent stage. My and now we can see you through the Structure of the secondary strut. My Columbia Columbia we re about to lose you on the Omni request High gain Antenna react Mode Collins we re already locked up on the High gain Houston. Aldrin Houston tiie passive seismometer s been deployed manually. My Roger. Aldrin and the manual deployment of the Larrr Laster ranging Retro that s a Little Spring at the end of the Strong pull off the pin. However i was Able to reach up and get hold of the pin and pull it Loose. So it la be deployed manually also. My Roger. Armstrong and the Panorama is Complete. The pm pivoted on position at about 60 feet. Aldrin the doors Are closed and locked. My have you got us a Good area picked out Armstrong Well i think right out on that Rise out there is As Good As any. Armstrong probably you can stay on the High ground there and Aldrin watch it. The Edge of that Crater is soft. Armstrong yeah it s pretty soft there in t it Aldrie i got a couple of clo Seips on these quite rounded Large boulders. Armstrong about 40 feet out i d say out to the end of that next Aldrin it s going to be a Little difficult to find a Good level spot Here. Armstrong top of that next Little Ridge there might be a pretty Good place. Aldrin hey How bout i put the Irrer right about Here Armstrong All right. Aldrin i m going to have to get on the other Side of this Rock Here. Armstrong i would go right around that Crater to the left there. In t that a level spot there. Aldrin i think this right ii Ere is just As level. Armstrong Okay. Armstrong these boulders look like a Salt. They have probably two per cent White minerals in pm White Crys tals and the thing that i re ported As the vascular before i Don t believe that anymore. I think it s Small they look like Little Impact craters where by shot has hit the surface. Arlin Houston i have the seismic Experiment flipped Over now and i m having a Little bit of difficulty getting the Bubble in the Centre. It wants to move around and around on the outside my you re cutting out again. Buzz. Aldrin Roger. I say i m not having too much Success in levelling the use Pasive seismic Experiment Experiment. Armstrong the Deflector is installed and level and alignment appears to be Good. Amrin hey you want to take a look at this by bub ble and see what you make in on it Armstrong i found it pretty hard to get it particularly level too. Aldria that by likes the outside. It won t go on inside. Marta that Little Compass is convex now instead of con Cave. Armstrong i think you re right. Auric i believe it is. Armstrong Houston i Don t think there s any Hope of using this levelling device to come up with an accurate level. It looks to me As though the cup Here that the by is in is now convex instead of con Cave. Over. My Roger la. Press on. If you think it looks level by eyeball go ahead. Armstrong Okay Okay go. Armstrong Good work. Hey hey whoa Stop Stop Back up. Aldrin Houston As i was spacing the use the right hand solar Ray deployed automatically. The left hand i had to manually at the far end. And All parts of the solar Ray Are Clear of the ground now. My the boys at Houston understand you did successfully deploy both solar rays Over. Armstrong Roger that s affirmative. Aldreta there in t any Way of telling whether that s lined getting in the Way May i could get Down Here Neil this is Houston go ahead my Over. Armstrong Houston. My Roger we be been looking at your consumables and you re i Good shape. Subject to your concurrence we d like to extend the duration of the Eva Moo Valk 15 min utes from nominal. We will still give Buzz a Hack at 10 minutes for heading in. Your current elapsed time is two plus 12 2 hours 12 Over. Armstrong Okay that sounds Fine. My Roger out. My this is Houston. If you re still in the Vicinity of the use could you get a photograph of the Ball level Over. Armstrong i la i la do that Buzz. Right. Well get a photo graph of that. Aldrin Houston what time would you estimate we could allow for the documented Sample Armstrong of shoot. Would you believe the Ball is right in the Middle now my wonderful. Take a Pic Ture before it moves. Mcneil this is Houston. We re estimating about 10 minutes for the document sampling Over. My Columbia Columbia this is Houston Over. Collins go ahead Houston. My i d like you to termin ate charging Battery Bravo at 111 plus 15, Over. Collus How about right now my Roger. My Buzz this is Houston. You be got about 10 minutes left now prior to commencing your Eva activities. Over. Aldrin Roger i under stand. My Tranquillity base this is Houston. The passive Seis Mic Experiment has been engaged and we re observing Short periods in it Over. Armstrong i Hope you re watching How hard i have to hit this into the ground to the tune of about five inches Houston. My Roger. Aldrin it almost looks wet. Armstrong got a Sample us wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute in Cable again Aldrin that Clear. Armstrong not quite. Mcneil this is Houston. We d like you All to get two Core tubes and the solar win Dow Core tubes and the solar window Over. Armstrong Roger. Aldrin getting the next one maybe you can Bend away the blocks a Little bit. Armstrong yeah i la take care of it. My Buzz this is Houston. You have approximately three minutes until you must com Mence your Eva terminate activities Over. Aldrin Roger understand. My Columbia this is hous ton approximately one min Ute to los. Collins Columbia Roger. My and do you plan on commencing your sleep on the Back Side of this pass if so Well disable unlink to you while we re talking to the pm Over. Collins negative that. Marta Houston were you Able to record documentary wave where two samples were taken my negative. Mcneil this is Houston. After you be got the Core tubes and solar wind any thing else that you can throw into the Box would be accept Able. Armstrong rights. Armstrong i got the Cap. Marta you got the Cap Armstrong they re both Good Caps and you want to pick up some stuff and i la get the solar wind Experiment my Buzz this is Houston. It s about time for you to Start your Eva closeout activities. Aorta Roger. Mcneil and Buzz this if Houston. I d like to remind of the closeup camera i up Magazine before you Start up the ladder. Buzz. Amrin Okay Armstrong that close up camera is underneath the Mesa Modularized equip ment storage i la have to pick it up with tongs. I m picking up several pieces of really vesicular Rock right now. Aldrin you did t get any thing in those environmental samples did you Armstrong not yet. Aldria 1 Don t think Well have time. My Roger Neil and Buzz. Let s press on with the close up camera Magazine and closing out of the Sample. We re running a Little Low on time. Armstrong Roger. Aldrin Okay. Can you quickly stick this in my pocket Neil and i la head on up the ladder. Aldrin i la Hole it and you open the pocket up. Aldrin Okay let the pocket 80 Armstrong about Aldrin got it. Armstrong Okay. Adios Amigo. Aldrin anything More be fore i head up Bruce Bruc Mccandless ground comm my negative. Head on the ladder Buzz. Aldrin How you coming n ii Armstrong Okay. Aldrin did you get that solar wind Over there Armstrong right. Aldrin think you can reach the rope hanging Over Here you might entertain the idea of sending up the second one that Way. Armstrong Okay. Aldrin get the film off it Armstrong i will. Aldrin Okay i m heading on in Armstrong Okay. Mcneil this is Houston. Did the Hasselblad camera Magazine go off on that Sam ple return Container Armstrong i be got the hassle bad Magazine hooked to the Sec Sample return con Tainer now Yea. My Roger. Armstrong How you doing Buzz Aldrin i m Okay. Aldrin you about ready to be sending up the lec lunar equipment conveyor Armstrong yeah just about. Aldrin Okay that s got it Clear. Armstrong us of. The camera came off. I mean the film pack came off. Aldrin of just ease r Down now. Don t pull so hard on her. All right let Eric. Armstrong while you re getting that i be got to get this camera. Aldrin Okay stand by a moment. Mcneil this is Houston. Request an Emu extravehicular mobility unit Check Over. Armstrongs i 3.8 and i got 54 on the 02 und no flags. Mcneil and Buzz for your information your c o n s u m Ables remain in Good shape out. Armstrong Roger. Aldrete How you coming Neil Armstrong Okay i be got one Side hooked up in the Sec Ond Box and i be got the film bag on. Aldrin Okay. Good. Armstrong boy that on the lec is kind of falling All Over me while i m doing this. Aldrin All that soot Hub. Armstrong that s what it looks like Down Here. Aldrin i think my watch stopped Neil. Nah it did to either. If you can just kind of hold it i think i can do the pulling. By a moment. Let me move Back. Aldrin Okay. Easy. Easy or. The Hatch now. Okay i can get it the rest of the Way. And i la give it to you go away in just a second. Yeah a Little More. Armsrong us Buzz Aldrin of. Turn Loose. Armstrong How about that package out of your got it. Aldrin no. Armstrong i la get it. I la pick it up. Armstrong i think so. Aldrin Okay Armstrong Okay. Mcneil this is Houston. Did you get the Hasselblad Magazine yes i did. And we got about i d say 20 pounds of carefully selected if not documented samples. My Well done. Out. Aldrin Start arching your Back. That s Good. Plenty of room. Arch your Back a Little. Move our head. Right just a Little bit. You re in Good shape shape. Armstrong thank you. I m bumping now. Aldreta no you re Clear. You re rubbing up against me a Little bit. Armstrong Okay. Aldrin that s right. Left. Okay. Armstrong move your foot fend i la get the Batch. Marta Okay. The Hatch u closed and latched and every thing is secure ;