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    56 minutes to first step.
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      Crew is getting dressed in the LM.

      108:28:43 Aldrin Position mike.
      108:29:01 Aldrin Sure wished I had shaved last night.
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        So it looks like the CBSN YouTube video from earlier is NOT live streaming the walk synced to historical time. They apparently aired it directly after the sync'd lunar landing earlier this afternoon. For those who want to watch it, it is archived: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBdyzTvA3oA

        BBC America seems to be broadcasting their version of the space walk, and it appears to be the CBS Walter Cronkite feed.
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          Originally posted by aparch View Post
          So it looks like the CBSN YouTube video from earlier is NOT live streaming the walk synced to historical time. They apparently aired it directly after the sync'd lunar landing earlier this afternoon. For those who want to watch it, it is archived: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBdyzTvA3oA

          BBC America seems to be broadcasting their version of the space walk, and it appears to be the CBS Walter Cronkite feed.
          Cronkite didn't get the phrase. Granted, Armstrong f-cked it up, which is too bad, because it was a great line.
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              I didn't know they timed it to Columbia line of sight.
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                That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.

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                  Even knowing "how it ends," and seeing this footage so many times over the years, this is still something special to see, especially watching on the Apollo in real time website.

                  Mission Control is so calm in the footage on the site, that they DID make a trip to the moon as exciting as a trip to Pittsburgh.
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                    Originally posted by aparch View Post
                    Mission Control is so calm in the footage on the site, that they DID make a trip to the moon as exciting as a trip to Pittsburgh.
                    I love the guy (maybe the INCO?) who's smoking through this and blowing smoke in the Control Room.
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                      He's only been out there for a few minutes and his oxy is down to 80%. I guess they didn't take long shifts at all.
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                        109:41:29 Aldrin Okay. Now I want to back up and partially close the hatch.
                        109:41:47 Aldrin Making sure not to lock it on my way out.
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                          It took 4 billion years to get one man on the moon and 20 minutes to get the second one.
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                            Can't believe I slept through some of the best parts. Awake now and watching the current feed. Will go back and watch the descent, landing, etc.

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                              Some commentary:

                              110:25:25 In the 16-mm film, the shadow of the Hasselblad lens can be seen at the left edge of the frame, with a small, sunlit portion of Buzz's suit just above it. About 16 seconds later, Buzz moves down-Sun with the camera in his right hand. He disappears from the 16-mm frame to the left, again, at about 110:25:49. At this point, he probably takes AS11-40- 5876, which shows an undisturbed patch of soil. At about 110:26:05, his right leg comes into view as he plants his right boot deliberately on the pristine patch. A frame from the 16-mm film taken at about 110:26:08 shows him with his leg extended and his boot planted. He then lifts his foot and backs out of the 16-mm field-of-view and takes two "after" pictures of the bootprint: 5877 and 5878. He took the second of these from slightly farther away and got better focus. Erwin D'Hoore has combined them as a red-blue anaglyph (1.9Mb). The length of the boot is about 33 cm and its greatest width is about 15 cm. (ALSJ Commentary)

                              110:27:00 At about 110:27:00 Buzz steps back into view at the left and plants his boot just beyond the previous bootprint. In a frame from the 16-mm film taken at about 110:27:02, the first bootprint in just behind Buzz's boot. He now takes two pictures of his boot and the new print: 5879 and 5880. The 5-cm rock next to Buzz's boot in the Hasselblad images can be picked out in the 16-mm frame. Journal Contributor John Hancock was combined 5879 and 80 to give a somewhat larger field-of-view. (ALSJ Commentary)

                              110:27:00 Readers should note that Buzz is following his checklist fairly closely and that the footprint photos are one of his tasks. During the 1991 mission review, he remembered that he was the one who took them. (ALSJ Commentary)


                              110:27:20 Neil is going out some distance from the MESA to get material for the bulk sample, mostly in the area of the Solar Wind Collector, but also off-camera to the left. (ALSJ Commentary)

                              110:27:20 Armstrong We wanted to not take too much time to collect that (bulk) sample but, at the same time, we wanted to minimize contamination from engine exhaust and tried to go out into areas that were, one, untrampled and, second, a little bit farther out. (ALSJ)

                              110:27:20 I asked if he made any attempt to get a representative set of samples. (ALSJ Commentary)

                              110:27:20 Armstrong In the bulk we were just supposed to get... (ALSJ)

                              110:27:20 Aldrin Where was that close-up camera (Apollo Lunar Surface Close-up Camera or ALSCC)? Has that been used at this point? (ALSJ)

                              110:27:20 Armstrong No. We get to it at the end, (chuckling) with great reluctance. They get nervous about that one at the end, if you remember. (ALSJ)

                              110:27:20 The close-up camera, shown in detail by Thomas Schwagmeier from AS11-40-5931, was also known as the Gold camera, after the Principal Investigator, Dr. Thomas (Tommy) Gold. Apollo 13 photo KSC-70PC-11 shows Fred Haise training with the Gold Camera. I asked Neil and Buzz why they were reluctant to use it. (ALSJ Commentary)

                              110:27:20 Armstrong Prof. Gold got his camera placed on the manifest very late and over crew objections. He hoped to support his erroneous theory of a 'cotton candy' surface. We had little enthusiasm for the intruder. (ALSJ)

                              110:27:20 Thomas Gold was a long-standing proponent of a theory - based in part on radio astronomical observations of the Moon - that the surface was covered with a deep layer of fine dust into which spacecraft and astronauts might sink into oblivion. Unfortunately, neither the fact that pictures of the Moon taken by the Ranger spacecraft showed small craters that would not have survived in Gold's dust sea nor the fact the Surveyor spacecraft all landed safely on very firm surfaces kept Gold from intense lobbying to get his close-up camera flown. The close-up camera was designed to take very high resolution pictures of very small surface areas and, indeed, they showed that the top millimeter or two usually had a "fairy castle structure" that would explain the radio returns. However, the scientific return from the experiment probably did not match that of the other experiments flown during Apollo. (ALSJ Commentary)

                              110:27:20 Armstrong The bulk sample took longer than in the simulations because the area where the bulk sample was collected was significantly farther from the MESA table than the way we had done it in training. The MESA table was in deep shadow and collecting samples in that area was far less desirable than collecting them out there in the sunlight where we could see what we were doing. In addition, (by going farther from the MESA) we were farther from the exhaust plume and the contamination of propellants. So I made a number of trips back and forth in the sunlight, and then carried the sample back over to the scale where the sample bag was mounted. I probably made 20 trips back and forth from sunlight to shade. I took a lot longer, but by doing it that way, I was able to pick up both a hard rock and ground mass (soil) in almost every scoopful. I tried to choose various types of hard rocks out there so that, if we never got to the documented sample, at least we would have a variety of types of hard rock in the bulk sample. This was at the cost of probably double the amount of time that we normally would take for the bulk sample." (ALSJ)

                              110:27:20 Jack Schmitt, Jim Gooding (NASA's Lunar Sample Curator) and others have told me that Neil did a superb job of gathering a large, representative collection of samples in a relatively short period of time. Indeed, the fact that they are so representative of the site and of mare sites in general has meant that, over the years when researchers have wanted mare samples for use in procedures that would result in sample destruction, frequently, they were given Apollo 11 samples. One example that comes easily to mind is T.D. Lin, a researcher at Construction Technology Laboratories, who was looking into the feasibility of using lunar soil in the manufacture of concrete on the Moon - a process that could greatly reduce construction costs at a lunar base. After doing a great deal of preliminary work on simulated lunar soil made by breaking up terrestrial basalt, he requested a small quantity of lunar soil for a final test. Because Neil had collected such a large quantity of representative soil, in 1986 NASA decided that it would be useful to give Lin a small amount for his experiments, knowing that there was plenty left for future work. (ALSJ Commentary)

                              110:28:22 Buzz is following his checklist in making comments about the lighting. The halo around Neil's shadow is shown best in AS11-40-5930, a picture that starts a pan he takes while Buzz is off-loading the science packages from the back of the LM. Buzz is out of the TV field-of-view, off-camera to the right. At one point during the following, Neil also goes off-camera to the right, presumably to collect more material for the bulk sample. (ALSJ Commentary)

                              110:28:22 On the later flights where the actual landing site was known soon after touchdown, photographs show that the surface around the LM appears to be significantly brighter than the surrounding soils. In addition, each of the last three crews climbed hillsides several kilometers from their LM's and, with long focal length lens, took pictures of the spacecraft. In these pictures, too, the ground near the LM is light in color. In his commentary on Apollo 17, Jack Schmitt suggests that, during the landing, the engine plume sweeps the surface of small particles, increasing the proportion of larger particles and, hence, the amount of reflected sunlight. In places where the soil is subsequently disturbed by footprints or Rover tracks, the original state of the soil is more or less restored and those disturbed areas appear darker against the lightened soil. In support of this contention, he notes that areas of disturbed soil well away from the LM do not appear darker. (ALSJ Commentary)

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                              • Re: Apollo 11 - 50 years on.

                                Upcoming milestones:

                                111:10:22 Good EASEP data
                                111:16:54 Seismic team wants crew to jump for data
                                111:32:27 Laser reflector test successful
                                111:37:48 Reentering Lunar Module
                                111:42:37 Cabin repress
                                112:00:31 SPAN "pretty incredible"
                                112:01:51 FD - "last pad"
                                112:56:30 Engine ARM circuit breaker broken
                                114:00:04 Slayton jokes with crew
                                114:06:16 Columbia Sleep Period Start
                                114:18:49 Armstrong "can't get away with anything anymore"
                                114:22:24 McCandless congratulates Neil and Buzz on behalf of the world
                                114:33:07 Observation questions to the surface crew
                                114:52:58 Tranquility Base Sleep Period Start
                                120:59:08 Columbia Wake-up
                                121:40:40 Tranquility Base Wake-up

                                121:40:52 Crew describes where they slept
                                123:07:53 Jim Lovell calls Columbia and Eagle
                                123:10:33 Armstrong gives geology observations from question the night before
                                124:22:04 Ascent from Lunar surface
                                125:10:23 Armstrong: "First time we've ever agreed on anything."
                                125:19:50 Rendezvous burn
                                127:22:34 Collins jokes about docking
                                128:00:52 Docked with Command Module
                                129:04:08 Bathroom humour
                                129:05:27 Transferring lunar samples to CM
                                129:12:16 Bathroom humour
                                129:12:58 Look in the lunar sample container
                                130:09:14 LM jettison
                                130:48:49 Duke askes Collins what it's like to have company
                                130:49:23 NY Times uses largest headline text in history
                                130:50:10 Deke jokes with Collins
                                132:16:02 News report: Telegrams, cosmonauts, Goddard, wives, sports
                                133:39:54 Collins excited about the success of the mission
                                135:05:22 Collins complains about computer interface layout
                                135:06:40 Crew tripple checking TEI numbers
                                135:09:42 Collins and Aldrin run through TEI burn checklist
                                135:14:24 Armstrong jokes about 'going forward'
                                135:21:17 2 minutes to TEI. Collins thinks horizon check is going to be perfect
                                135:23:36 Trans-Earth Injection (TEI)

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