one giant leap for mankind'
which there are quite a few in the near area—it looks as though they're going to have some interesting colors to them."
Duke replied:
"Sounds good to us Tranquility. We'll let you press on through the simulated countdown in preparation for lunar blastoff Monday. And we'll talk to you later."
Then Duke added:
"Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this control room ... and all over the world."
"There are two of them up here."
Duke: "Roger. It was a beautiful job you guys."
Armstrong responded:
Collins: "And don't forget the one in the command module." Duke: "Borger."
Duke: "Roger
After Eagle had been on the moon for about 3 hours, Aldrin radioed back:
"This is the LEM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours, and to give thanks in his or her own way."
"Now comes the gymnastics," said Armstrong, as he started to depressurize the spacecraft at 10:27 p.m. EDT to begin the moonwalk.
At 10:28 p.m. EDT, Armstrong began breathing oxygen from his back pack moon walk breathing unit.
Armstrong and Aldrin then opened the hatch of their Eagle lunar lander and prepared for a walk on the moon.
Armstrong slid carefully through the hatch of his Eagle moon lander feet first and started down the nine steps of its ladder toward the lunar surface.
He stepped from the footpad of his Eagle moon lander to the lunar surface at 10:56:31 p.m. EDT Sunday.
"That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind," he said.
He said the surface was powdery.
"I only go in an eighth of an inch, but I can see my foot prints in the fine particles."
"There seems to be no difficulty in moving around," he said.
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as he tested man's equilibrium on the surface of the other world for the first time.
The television camera that televised the historic moment to earth was mounted inside an equipment bay that Armstrong opened as he climbed down the ladder.
Armstrong and Aldrin launched off the moon at 1:54 p.m. EDT Monday in the Eagle, ending a lunar surface stay of 21 hours 36 minutes.
They first blasted off from the Sea of Tranquillity into an eggshaped orbit and then performed three smooth course corrections to catch up with Michael Collins in the command ship Columbia.
The rendezvous occurred about 5.15 p.m. EDT and the two spacecraft linked about 5.35 p.m. The exact time of the rendezvous was not immediately determined because the pilots didn't report to earth. First indication that the docking maneuver was achieved came when ground controllers overheard a discussion between the two spacecraft.
After 60 epic hours on and around the moon, they fired their rocket engine and headed toward a Thursday splashdown in the Pacific and 18 days in isolation that will be their initial heroes' reward.
"You'll have to open up the LRL doors," Collins radioed as the engine fired at 12:56 a.m. EDT. He referred to the lunar receiving laboratory, an $11 million building here where the three pilots will be quarantined on their return to guarantee that no moon germs peril the earth.
A little over 7 hours earlier, Armstrong and Aldrin, flying "right down U.S. 1," piloted their Eagle lunar module to a rendezvous and docking with Collins' command ship Columbia.
"How does it feel to have some company?" ground controller Charles M. Duke asked Collins after Armstrong and Aldrin crawled back aboard.
"Dammed good, I'll tell ya," said Collins, who flew the Columbia in a lonely, 70-mile orbit for 28 hours while Armstrong and Aldrin took Eagle to a moon landing and Armstrong's first human step there.
Monday night Armstrong and Aldrin, first men on the moon, linked up with Columbia, crawled into the command ship with their 80 pounds of rocks and dirt from
the moon, and jettisoned the Eagle.
"There she goes," Collins radioed. That was at 7:40 p.m. EDT, just about three hours after Armstrong and Aldrin completed a space chase through 12.00 miles and rendezvous and docking with Columbia.
Part of the time between the rendezvous and the jettisoning of Eagle was spent by the astronauts vacuuming the insides of both spaceships and all their moonsuits as part of their anti-contamination program.
Although scientists concede there is only a remote possibility the astronauts might bring back some unknown organism from the moon, they ordered a 21-day quarantine on them, their rock samples and their equipment.
The 21 days began when Eagle landed on the lunar surface Sunday in a swirl of moondust, so if everything goes according to plan Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins won't be out of quarantine until Sunday. Aug. 10. 18 days from their splashdown.
When the Apollo 11 pilots do get out, they're sure to be accorded wild welcomes back to earth almost anywhere in the world they go.
The astronauts were told that The New York Times had used the largest headline type in history on the story of the lunar landing and moon walk. "I'm glad it was fit to print." one of them said.
Armstrong, 7 minutes, 17 seconds after launch from the moon, told anxious ground controllers.
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"Eagle is in safe orbit, having left Tranquillity Base and leaving behind a replica of our Apollo 11 badge and olive branch."
The astronauts also left the
U. S. flag, two scientific experiments and more than $1 million worth of equipment they no longer needed, including a $250,- 000 camera.
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