(ENGINE RUMBLES)
(HELICOPTER ROTOR BLADES WHIRRING)
NASA ADMIN: Okay, are there any changes to the schedule? Arnie?
ARNIE: Line item seven, which is shown for all day,
all of first shift Tuesday.
The tank pressurization test will not start until 13:00.
NASA ADMIN: When do you want to run the leak check?
ARNIE: First shift Tuesday.
NASA ADMIN: Arnie, you going to extend that time out for five hours
by cutting it off in the front end of that LH2 storage tank pressurization?
ARNIE: Negative.
(ENGINE RUMBLES)
WALTER CRONKITE: It's three hours and 32 minutes
until man begins the greatest adventure in his history.
If all goes well, Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins
are to lift off from Pad 39A out there
on the voyage man always has dreamed about.
So it is now, before they go,
as their gleaming vehicle sits poised and peaceful out there,
that there is time, if only briefly in this busy morning,
to think of those three men,
and the burdens and the hopes that they carry on behalf of all mankind.
And boring through the vastness, the blackness, and the cold of space,
they'll carry the pledge made eight years ago by President Kennedy
to put a man on the moon and bring him back safely in this decade.
ARMSTRONG: Each segment of the mission, every individual piece,
has to be completed perfectly
in order for the next step to be possible.
And, of course, the nation itself is backing us,
so we just sincerely hope that we measure up to that.
COLLINS: The whole Apollo program was designed
to get two Americans to the lunar surface and back again to Earth safely.
The enormity of this event
is something that only history will be able to judge.
ALDRIN: Apollo 11 has very simply been given the mission
of carrying men to the moon,
landing them there, and bringing them safely back.
CRONKITE: For in addition to the mission the three astronauts will perform,
and the experiments they'll undertake,
these men will carry with them many other things,
many things that are not nearly so easy to describe.
During the planned Apollo 11 journey,
we'll be concerned with such things as mid-course corrections and docking.
The astronauts, of course, will be concerned with very much more.
The flight of Apollo 11 is to be the culmination
of a national effort and the most difficult, most dangerous mission
ever attempted since this country, and the Russians,
started sending men into space.
Thirty-eight-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 journey certainly for the history books.
The beginning of man's greatest adventure,
leaving this planet to set foot on the moon.
-CBTS 111: FLIGHT, CBTS 111. -FLIGHT: Go ahead.
CBTS 111: Verify Go/No Go for start automatic launch sequence.
FLIGHT: Verify Go.
-CBTS: Copy. -FLIGHT: 561 verify.
CS18, spacecraft ready switch on.
LAUNCH CONTROLLER: Switch is on. Verify light.
FLIGHT: Roger, 560. Verify.
LAUNCH CONTROLLER 1: All stations stand by
to give a crew departure status at this time.
-CTBS: CBTS to CTSS 111. -LAUNCH CONTROLLER 2: CTSS.
CTSS: Go.
-LAUNCH CONTROLLER 2: CBTS. -CBTS: Go.
-LAUNCH CONTROLLER 2: DNS. -DNS: Go.
-LAUNCH CONTROLLER 2: STS. -STS: Go.
-LAUNCH CONTROLLER 2: FTS. -FTS: Go.
-LAUNCH CONTROLLER 2: RTS. -RTS: Go.
-LAUNCH CONTROLLER 2: Eight. -Eight. Go.
-LAUNCH CONTROLLER 2: Okay. BSC. -BSC: Go.
LAUNCH CONTROLLER 3: Verify elevator number one at elevator number two
at 320-foot level.
320-foot level, verify.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)
LAUNCH CONTROLLER 2: 214.
Roger, you're go for crew departure.
-214. -214: Go.
LAUNCH CONTROLLER 2: Roger, you're go for crew departure.
214: Affirmative. Go.
CRONKITE: The dawn of this day heralded the dawning of a new age.
It's a time of exhilaration,
reflection, hope, fulfillment,
as a centuries-old dream starts toward reality.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control.
T-minus three hours, four minutes, 32 seconds and counting,
right on time as far as the astronaut countdown is concerned,
the prime crew now departing from their crew quarters
here at the Kennedy Space Center.
(PEOPLE APPLAUDING)
Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and then finally Mike Collins,
plus their suit technicians
and Director of Flight Crew Operations, Deke Slayton,
now boarding the transfer van for the trip to the launch pad.
The trip in the transfer van should take some 15 minutes or so
to reach the pad,
at which time the astronauts will board the first of two elevators
for the trip to the 320-foot level at the launch pad,
where they will then proceed to ingress the spacecraft.
(PEOPLE APPLAUDING)
We logged the departure from the building at about 6:27 a.m.
Eastern Daylight Time.
The transfer van now departing from the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building
at the Kennedy Space Center on the start of its eight-mile trip
to Launch Pad A here at complex 39
where the Saturn V launch vehicle, now fully loaded with propellants,
going through preliminary checkouts.
This is Launch Control.
MAN: (ON RADIO) We passed 10,000-odd cars
estimated parked around the gate 1 area
at 4:00 a.m. when we got here. Cars from every state,
with little kids staring wide-eyed at the Saturn V
glowing in the huge xenon spotlight 15 miles away,
and we saw teenagers with telescopes.
It was the very same road we came over eight long years ago,
21 manned spaceflights ago,
when we came out at just about the same hour
to cover Alan Shepard's 15-minute suborbital flight...
(HELICOPTER ROTOR BLADES WHIRRING)
...America's first manned spaceflight. Americans cared then, I think...
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control.
T-minus two hours, 45 minutes, 55 seconds and counting.
As the prime crew for Apollo 11,
astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin
are on the terminal part of their trip to the launch pad, in the transfer van.
It's now making the curve toward the pad.
We have discovered a problem at the launch pad itself
as the crew is about to arrive.
We have a leak in a valve located in a system
associated with replenishing liquid hydrogen for the third stage
of the Saturn V launch vehicle.
We have sent a team of three technicians and a safety man to the pad,
and these technicians are now tightening bolts around the valve.
-CLTS: CLTC, this is CLTS. -CLTC: Go ahead.
CLTS: We have a leak on the S-IVB N valve.
We have it in the override closed position, to see if it'll get better.
It seems to be getting worse.
CLTC: Roger, which camera is that available on?
CLTS: It's on camera 18.
TECHNICIAN: Camera 18, you can see the men working on the hydrogen leak.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Once the technicians depart
we will send hydrogen again through this system
to assure that the leak has been corrected.
The astronauts now coming up toward the pad itself,
as the crew of several technicians at the 200-foot level
proceed to tighten some bolts around a leaking valve.
The astronaut team, which has just arrived at the pad,
the transfer van now backing up toward the elevator.
In a matter of five minutes or so,
we'll be ready for the spacecraft commander Neil Armstrong
to come across the sill at the 320-foot level.
That is our status at two hours, 43 minutes, 47 seconds and counting.
This is Launch Control.
(METALLIC CREAKING)
-CBTS: MSTC, CBTS 111. -MSTC: Go ahead.
-CBTS: Astros proceeding to 320. -MSTC: Understand.
We'll get the camera.
Okay, Günter, you can hit the switch on the camera.
A2: LOAM, this is A2. IAS.
GÜNTER: Roger, camera has been activated.
MSTC: CBTS MSTC, the swing arm camera is on.
CBTS: CBTS copies.
GÜNTER: The crew's approaching the door.
MSTC: Okay, babe.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control.
We've just passed the two hour, 21 minute mark in our countdown,
and we are proceeding at this time.
At the 320-foot level, all three astronauts now aboard the spacecraft.
Just a few minutes ago,
astronaut Buzz Aldrin came in and took the center seat
to join Neil Armstrong on the left and Mike Collins on the right.
These are the positions they will fly at liftoff.
A hundred and twenty feet down,
the work continues on a leaky valve at the 200-foot level,
the technicians still hard at work tightening bolts
around that valve at this time.
STC: CDR, STC. How do you read?
ARMSTRONG: STC, loud and clear.
-STC: Good morning, Neil. -ARMSTRONG: Good morning.
STC: Welcome aboard.
CMP, STC. How do you read?
ALDRIN: STC, CMP. Loud and clear.
STC: Good morning, Buzz.
ALDRIN: Good morning. How are you gentlemen?
STC: Just fine, thank you.
GÜNTER: Let me make a last check here. CDR, LMP and CMP,
are you ready for hatch close, and do you need any adjustment on your straps?
ALDRIN: LMP's happy.
GÜNTER: Roger. Okay, good luck.
ARMSTRONG: Thank you, Günter.
ALDRIN: See you around, Günter.
STC: All right, pad leader, let's proceed.
GÜNTER: Roger, we're proceeding with closing the hatch.
STC: Roger.
GÜNTER: Sequence 441, the CM hatch is closed.
STC: Roger.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: The hatch is closed
and we're beginning to purge the cabin to bring it
(OVER TANNOY) to the proper atmosphere for launch,
which is a combination of oxygen and nitrogen,
60% oxygen and 40% nitrogen atmosphere.
Of course, the astronauts themselves are breathing pure oxygen
through their space suits.
Coming up shortly will be another key test in which both the launch crew
for the launch vehicle crew and the spacecraft team
combine together with commander Neil Armstrong
to make a thorough check of the emergency detection system.
This is the system that will signal the astronauts in the cabin
if anything goes wrong below them.
We use the ground-based computer to accomplish this test.
It will take some 30 minutes.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
Neil Armstrong will be doing most of the work in the spacecraft,
responding as different cue lights
signifying different difficulties are presented to him.
Our countdown continuing, this is Kennedy Launch Control.
RADIO ANNOUNCER: This is reserved for Vice President Agnew
and former President Johnson,
who have not arrived yet.
Beyond that, NASA officials. 5,000 guests in all,
including some 400 Congressmen
and members of the Supreme Court, the presidential cabinet.
The NASA official who escorted us over to this site today
called it a Roman circus.
We all know that NASA has cooperation agreement with over 60 countries.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: 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 still keeping a close eye
on the status of the propellants aboard the Saturn V launch vehicle.
This problem with the leaking valve is no problem at this time.
We've actually bypassed the valve,
but we are maintaining our hydrogen supply aboard the vehicle.
That big swing arm that has been attached to the spacecraft up to now,
will be moved back now, in five seconds. The swing arm will come back.
Mark.
CSA 9: CBTS, this is CSA 9. Arm nine is retracted.
CBTS: CBTS copy.
(HELICOPTER ROTOR BLADES WHIRRING)
(INDISTINCT COMMENTARY ON RADIO)
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: (OVER TANNOY) Fourth test with the launch vehicle,
checking out the various batteries
in the three stages of the instrument unit in the Saturn V.
We remain on external power through most of the count
to preserve those batteries which must be used during the powered flight.
We're just taking a look at them by going internal
and then switching back to external again. The batteries are removed.
The next time we go internal
will be at the 50-second mark with those batteries.
They will remain, of course, on internal power during the flight.
Fourteen minutes, 30 seconds and counting.
All still going well with the countdown at this time.
For status report, we'll now switch to Mission Control Houston.
This is Apollo Mission Control.
Flight Director Cliff Charlesworth's team is on station here
in the Mission Operations Control Room,
ready to assume the control of this flight at tower clearance.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Flight controllers, coming up on auto sequence.
-BOOSTER, how are you? -We're go, FLIGHT.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: EECOM? -Go, FLIGHT.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: GNC? -Go, FLIGHT.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: TELCOM? -Go, FLIGHT.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: CONTROL. -Go.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: NETWORK? Got her, Dale? -That's affirmative, FLIGHT.
CBTS: Mission Director, CBTS 111, verify go for launch.
MISSION DIRECTOR: Go for launch.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: We passed the six-minute mark
in our countdown for Apollo 11,
now five minutes, 52 seconds and counting.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: BOOSTER. -CBTS: CTSF, verify go for launch.
-CTSF: CTSF verifies go for launch. -CBTS: CTSC verify go for launch.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: BOOSTER, FLIGHT.
CBTS: SRO verify go for launch. SRO: SRO verifies go for launch.
CBTS: LM verify go for launch. LM: LM go for launch.
CBTS: Go for launch.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: We have some 7.6 million pounds of thrust
pushing the vehicle upward,
a vehicle that weighs close to six and a half million pounds.
This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control, T-minus one minute, 35 seconds
on the Apollo mission, the flight to land the first men on the moon.
Apollo 11, this is Launch Operations Manager.
The launch team wishes you good luck and Godspeed.
ARMSTRONG: Sure has been a nice smooth countdown.
ALDRIN: Thank you, babe. LMP...
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: T-minus 60 seconds and counting. We've passed T-minus 60.
Fifty-five seconds and counting.
Neil Armstrong just reported back it's been a real smooth countdown.
We've passed the 50-second mark.
Power transfer is complete,
and on internal power with the launch vehicle at this time.
Forty seconds away from the Apollo 11 liftoff.
All the second stage tanks now pressurized.
Thirty-five seconds and counting.
-We are still go with Apollo 11. -FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Thirty seconds.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Thirty seconds and counting.
Astronauts report it feels good. T-minus 25 seconds.
Twenty seconds and counting.
T-minus 15 seconds, guidance is internal.
Twelve, eleven,
ten, nine.
Ignition sequence starts.
(LOUD ROAR)
Liftoff! We have a liftoff.
Thirty-two minutes past the hour, liftoff on Apollo 11.
-FLIGHT CONTROLLER: Clear the tower. -PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Tower clear!
ARMSTRONG: Roger, we got a roll program.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Neil Armstrong reporting the roll and pitch program,
which puts Apollo 11 on a proper heading.
(PEOPLE WHISTLING AND CHEERING)
ARMSTRONG: One bravo.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: One bravo is a abort control mode.
Altitude's two miles.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, Houston. You're good at one minute.
ARMSTRONG: Roger.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: We're through the region of maximum dynamic pressure now.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Yeah, everything looks good here.
CAPCOM: 11, Houston. Your guidance is converged. You're looking good.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: We're 1350 at the start, Bob.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Eight miles downrange, 12 miles high.
Velocity 4,000 feet per second.
FIDO: Stand by for Mode One Charlie.
CAPCOM: Stand by for Mode One Charlie.
-FIDO: Mark. -CAPCOM: Mark, Mode One Charlie.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Staging... BOOSTER. -BOOSTER: Go.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: FIDO. -Go.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: GUIDANCE. -Go.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Good for staging.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Cliff Charlesworth taking a staging status.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, this is Houston. You are go for staging.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: CAPCOM Bruce McCandless
giving the reports here from the control center.
ARMSTRONG: Staging.
And ignition.
FLIGHT CONTROLLER: Cut-off, ignition. Thrust is go all engines.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Looks good, CAPCOM.
CAPCOM: Apollo, Houston. Thrust is go all engines. You're looking good.
ARMSTRONG: We've got skirt sep.
-CAPCOM: Roger, we confirm skirt sep. -ARMSTRONG: Roger.
-ARMSTRONG: Tower's gone. -CAPCOM: Roger. Tower's gone.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Neil Armstrong confirming
both the engine skirt separation
and the launch escape tower separation.
Downrange 270 miles, altitude 82 miles.
FIDO: Stand by for S-IVB to COI capability.
CAPCOM: Stand by for S-IVB to COI capability.
ARMSTRONG: Okay.
-FIDO: Mark. -CAPCOM: S-IVB to COI capability.
ARMSTRONG: Roger.
Houston, be advised, the visual is go today.
CAPCOM: This is Houston. Roger that.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Altitude is 100 miles, downrange 883 miles.
Outboard engine cut off.
ARMSTRONG: And ignition.
CAPCOM: Ignition confirmed, thrust is go, 11.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: And we have a good third stage now.
Velocity 23,128 feet per second,
downrange 1,000 miles, altitude 101 miles.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, this is Houston. At 10 minutes, you are go.
ARMSTRONG: And roger, 11.
-FIDO: FLIGHT, FIDO, we are go. -FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Confirmed go.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, this is Houston. You are confirmed go for orbit.
ARMSTRONG: Roger.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: We have a report on the launch heart rates now
from the flight surgeon.
Commander Neil Armstrong, 110.
Command Module Pilot Mike Collins, 99.
Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin, 88.
FIDO: FLIGHT, FIDO, we'll have some radar in shortly.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: The flight dynamics officer,
Dave Reed, will report a refined orbit
after more radar tracking.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, this is Houston.
The booster has been configured for orbital coast.
Both spacecraft are looking good, over.
ARMSTRONG: Roger.
Do you want some of these lights down further, Mike?
COLLINS: Don't worry about it for the time being,
I'm potting around with handholds right now, Neil.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, this is Houston through Tananarive, over.
ALDRIN: Hello, Houston, Apollo 11. Go ahead.
CAPCOM: For your information,
Canary radar shows you in a 103.0 by 103.0 orbit, over.
ALDRIN: Beautiful.
CAPCOM: You'll be AOS at Goldstone
at 1:29:02,
LOS at Goldstone, 1:33:55, over.
ALDRIN: Roger.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: This is Apollo Control at one hour, 51 minutes.
Moving across the Atlantic now towards Africa.
And on the next revolution,
the spacecraft will be accelerating to the required speed
to get it into an orbit that'll intercept the moon
during the trans-lunar injection maneuver,
the burn with the Saturn third stage
that will place the spacecraft on its trajectory toward the moon.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Go/No Go for TLI. GUIDANCE.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: GNC. -GNC: We're go, FLIGHT.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: EECOM.
-EECOM: We're go, FLIGHT. -FLIGHT DIRECTOR: FIDO.
-FIDO: We're go, FLIGHT. -FLIGHT DIRECTOR: RETRO.
-RETRO: Go, FLIGHT. -FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Okay, CAPCOM.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, this is Houston. You are go for TLI, over.
ARMSTRONG: Apollo 11, thank you.
CAPCOM: We just got telemetry back on here, BOOSTER, and everything is go.
ARMSTRONG: Roger, everything looks good here.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: We're showing present altitude about 108 nautical miles.
We expect to be at an altitude of 177 nautical miles at cut-off.
ARMSTRONG: We're just coming into the terminator here.
COLLINS: Ignition.
BOOSTER: We have ignition, FLIGHT.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Roger. -BOOSTER: We're go. Thrust is go.
CAPCOM: We confirm ignition and the thrust is go.
GUIDANCE: Guidance initiate, FLIGHT.
FIDO: FLIGHT. FIDO, radar confirms ignition.
CAPCOM: Trajectory and guidance look good and the stage is good, over.
ALDRIN: Roger, Apollo 11 is go.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Telemetry and radar tracking both solid.
-BOOSTER: Cut-off. -FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Roger.
CAPCOM: We show cut-off, and we copy the numbers on NOUN 62.
ARMSTRONG: Houston, Apollo 11, that Saturn gave us a magnificent ride.
CAPCOM: Roger, 11, it certainly looks like you're well on your way now.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: That was Neil Armstrong praising the launch vehicle.
-FLIGHT FIDO. -FLIGHT: Go.
We finally got some radar data back. Looks good.
We had a good burn. We've got a good flight to the moon coming up.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Roger.
CAPCOM: FLIGHT CAPCOM, you want me to pass up those times?
-FLIGHT: That's affirm. -CAPCOM: Okay.
Apollo 11, this is Houston.
For your information, we expect the maneuver to separation attitude
to begin at three plus 05 plus 03.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: The crew at this time pressing ahead
with their transposition and docking maneuver.
The spacecraft, after having separated the Saturn third stage, turning around,
docking with the lunar module,
extracting the lunar module from the Saturn third stage,
and pushing ahead en route to the moon.
ARMSTRONG: He's a little bit to our right.
ALDRIN: Okay, I see him.
ARMSTRONG: We need about a five-degree right.
-We need to stop our... -ALDRIN: Okay, let's stop here.
ARMSTRONG: He's pretty far away...
ALDRIN: How long do we want to run this film?
ARMSTRONG: How does he look, Mike?
Okay, you got a 100.4 now.
(RADIO STATIC SCRATCHING)
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: It's a very weak signal.
We believe that Mike Collins is now maneuvering the spacecraft.
The antenna patterns aren't too good at the moment.
COLLINS: Flies like a spacecraft instead of a simulator.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, this is Houston broadcasting in the blind.
Request Omni Bravo if you read us, out.
ALDRIN: When a little piece of something hits the...
What do you call that covering?
The whole LM quivers every so often.
All the surface of it, you know, shakes like that.
Just in one spot. It's not being hit.
Stand by. We're close.
(METALLIC THUD)
ALDRIN: Hey, Houston, Apollo 11, all 12 latches are locked.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Buzz Aldrin reporting that all 12 of the latches
in the docking mechanism have locked.
ARMSTRONG: Houston, we're ready for LM ejection.
We are sep'd. We have a cryo press light.
COLLINS: Houston, Apollo 11, we've completed our maneuver.
CAPCOM: Houston, roger out.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: This is Apollo Control
at six hours, 16 minutes into the mission.
Velocity now 11,479 feet per second.
Apollo 11's distance from Earth, 27,938 nautical miles.
CAPCOM is now Charlie Duke,
and Gene Kranz and his white team of flight controllers
is preparing to take over the responsibility
from Cliff Charlesworth's team.
COLLINS: The PTC has started now. It looks good to us,
and we'll be ready to copy in a minute or two.
Roger, we see it increasing now.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: The spacecraft will be placed
in the passive thermal control mode,
will be rotated about its X-axis
at a rate of about three revolutions per hour
to maintain proper temperature balance within the spacecraft.
ARMSTRONG: And Houston, you might be interested
that, out my left-hand window right now,
I can observe the entire continent of North America,
down to the Yucatan Peninsula, Cuba, and then I run out of window.
COLLINS: I didn't know what I was looking at, but I sure did like it.
CAPCOM: (LAUGHS) Okay.
ALDRIN: I didn't have much outside my window.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like a crew status report.
We're about to tell you goodnight, over.
-There, there. -Four kilometers.
ALDRIN: Status report is as follows.
Radiation-CDR 11002,
CMP 10002.
LMP 09003.
Negative medications.
Fit as a fiddle, over.
CAPCOM: Copy, 11, thank you much. You're cleared for some Zees, over.
COLLINS: Okay, maybe we'll get around to lunch.
ALDRIN: Morning, Houston, Apollo 11.
CAPCOM: Roger, Apollo 11. Good morning.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Goldstone reports they're receiving TV from the spacecraft.
ARMSTRONG: Calling in from about 130,000 miles out.
Hello there, sports fans, you got a little bit of me,
plus Neil's on the center couch, and Buzz is doing the camera work.
Neil's standing on his head again. He's trying to make me nervous.
CAPCOM: Roger, copy. We see the DSKY flashing with a 651.
ARMSTRONG: We do have a happy home.
There's plenty of room for the three of us.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Apollo 11 is presently 131,000 nautical miles
from Earth.
The spacecraft slowly rotates to maintain thermal balance.
CAPCOM: It looks like we got a good PTC going.
It's goodnight from the white team, over.
COLLINS: Okay, see you tomorrow. Thank you for everything.
-CAPCOM: Good morning, Apollo 11. -ALDRIN: Good morning, Houston. Apollo 11.
Yeah, I've got the world in my window for a change.
CAPCOM: Sounds like one of these rotating restaurants.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Okay, all flight controllers,
let's get handed over pretty quickly to the white team here.
We're going to be crawling into the LM shortly.
We're terminating PTC.
NETWORK: FLIGHT NETWORK, we're receiving live TV.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Interior view of the command module
looking up into the LM hatch area.
ALDRIN: It's moved. Coming down.
ARMSTRONG: We're about to open the hatch now.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Buzz Aldrin has apparently carried the camera
into the LM with him.
ALDRIN: The vehicle is surprisingly very clean.
CAPCOM: Just a moment ago, we had a good shot of your PLSS, Buzz,
and the two helmet stowage bags,
and now behind, we have the DSKY and the ACA.
ALDRIN: That's about the position we'll be putting the camera in
after the initial descent down the ladder.
It'll be taking one frame a second.
-COLLINS: Hello there, Earthlings. -CAPCOM: Hello there.
ARMSTRONG: Probably the most unusual position a cameraman's ever had,
hanging by his toes from a tunnel and taking a picture upside down.
ALDRIN: We're going to go ahead and take all the loose data
on back into the command module, Charlie.
CAPCOM: Roger.
ARMSTRONG: And we're going to turn our TV monitor off now
while we have some other work to do. Apollo 11, signing off.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, Houston.
As the sun sinks slowly in the west, the white team bids you goodnight.
ALDRIN: You earned your pay today, Charlie.
CAPCOM: Rog, goodnight all.
(MAN CHATTERING)
NEWSCASTER: The government has succeeded in harnessing the resources
of the government, the scientific community, the universities...
Now let's take a few minutes to review what else had been going on
around the world while Apollo 11 has held our attention.
The lull in the ground fighting in Vietnam is now in its fifth week
with only one incident reported from the battlefield so far today
and that one described as minor.
Police Chief Dominick Arena, who filed a formal complaint,
charging Senator Edward Kennedy with leaving the scene of the accident
that took the life of Mary Jo Kopechne, a passenger in the Senator's car.
Kennedy, who suffered a slight concussion in the accident,
remains in seclusion near the family compound at Hyannis Port.
-FOA: FD1 FAO. -FD1: Go ahead.
FAO: You hear that story about Ted Kennedy? Did y'all hear about that?
That was the biggest story on the news.
FD1: Yeah, yeah, they'd forgotten about Apollo for Ted Kennedy.
CAPCOM: GNC, this is CAPCOM on MOCR 1.
GNC: Go ahead.
Have your people plotted pressure in that bottle versus time,
so we could take a look at it?
GNC: I don't think they've got it yet. They're testing work, CAPCOM.
Okay, how about giving me a call when that comes up? We'd like to take a look at it
-on one of the screens. -GNC: Rog.
ALDRIN: Morning again, Houston. This is Apollo 11.
CAPCOM: Roger, 11, good morning.
Your systems are looking good from down here.
COLLINS: Looks good up here too, Bruce.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Deke Slayton, Director of Flight Crew Operations
and two members of the backup crew, Bill Anders, Jim Lovell,
have joined Bruce McCandless at the CAPCOM console.
Apollo 11, this is Houston, over.
ALDRIN: Roger, go ahead, Houston. Apollo 11.
11, this is Houston.
If Mike has a mask,
he's lost respiration rates on the biomed telemetry.
ALDRIN: Well, he was shaving a little bit ago. He might have...
CAPCOM: Okay, Mike, we had a request that you check the two electrodes
that are placed one on each side of your lower ribcage, over.
COLLINS: All those wires and things look normal up here.
CAPCOM: Roger, Mike, we can see variations on our trace
as you connected and disconnected,
but the medics still don't have a signal.
COLLINS: I promise to let you know if I stop breathing.
(ALL LAUGH)
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Coming up in less than 10 seconds now,
we'll be crossing into the sphere of influence of the moon
at this point as the moon's gravitational force
becomes the dominant effect on the spacecraft trajectory,
and our displays will shift from Earth reference to moon reference.
The spacecraft was at a distance of 186,437 nautical miles from Earth
and 33,822 nautical miles from the moon.
All spacecraft systems are functioning normally.
The mission going very smoothly.
ARMSTRONG: View of the moon that we've been having's really spectacular.
The sun right behind the edge of the moon now.
The solar corona.
ALDRIN: The sky is lit all the way around the moon, quite an eerie sight.
There's a very marked three-dimensional aspect of having the sun's corona
coming from behind the moon the way it is.
ARMSTRONG: It's a view worth the price of the trip.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Mother Earth is 206,059 nautical miles behind.
Coming up on the lunar orbit insertion burn
in which the spacecraft will start its initial orbit around the moon.
That maneuver will slow the spacecraft down considerably
from its present velocity.
It should come from behind the east face of the moon 33 minutes later.
ARMSTRONG: Yeah, the moon is there, boy, in all its splendor.
COLLINS: Hello, moon, how's your old backside?
CAPCOM: All your systems are looking good going around the corner.
We'll see you on the other side, over.
(RADIO STATIC SCRATCHING)
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: The loss of signal as Apollo 11 goes behind the moon.
-COLLINS: Servo power one to AC1. -ALDRIN: Two to AC two.
ARMSTRONG: Two to AC2.
ALDRIN: Translational control power on.
COLLINS: Translational control power is on.
ALDRIN: Hand controller number two armed.
COLLINS: Hand controller number two is armed. 99.
99.
ARMSTRONG: Proceed.
COLLINS: Got B mode.
ARMSTRONG: Burning, we're looking good.
COLLINS: Here comes B-B, I mean, thrust A. Mark.
-ALDRIN: Got them. -COLLINS: Both?
ARMSTRONG: Now what's your chamber pressure?
COLLINS: It's good. It's 95.
ALDRIN: PUGS is oscillating around.
ARMSTRONG: Okay, we're steering.
ALDRIN: 95 seconds in, it says go decrease, and hold on.
COLLINS: Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three...
ARMSTRONG: Shut down.
ALDRIN: Ball valves closed. Barber pole.
ARMSTRONG: That was a beautiful burn.
COLLINS: Goddamn, I guess. 170 by 60. Like gangbusters! Whoo!
(RADIO STATIC SCRATCHING)
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Thirty seconds from acquisition time.
COLLINS: Well, I have to vote with the 10 crew. That thing is brown.
ALDRIN: Yep. Sure is.
ARMSTRONG: Looks tan to me, but when I first saw it at that other sun angle,
it really looked gray.
ALDRIN: More sun angle you get...
COLLINS: More brown with increasing sun angle.
ALDRIN: God, that's a big beauty.
Gigantic crater. Look at the mountains going around it.
My gosh, they're monsters.
That is a big mother over here, too.
ARMSTRONG: Whoo! Get another picture of that big fellow.
ALDRIN: Look at those craters in a row. You see them going right out there?
There it is! It's coming up!
-COLLINS: What? -ALDRIN: The Earth. See it?
Just beautiful! Right over the LM.
Boy, does that ever look beautiful in the sextant.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston. Do you read?
ALDRIN: Yeah, we sure do, Houston.
LOI 1 burn just nominal as all get out, and everything looking good.
It was like perfect.
ARMSTRONG: Delta-Tig zero, burn time 5:57... 60.9 by 169.9.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: That burn report was by Neil Armstrong.
CAPCOM: Roger, we copy you.
The spacecraft is looking good to us on telemetry.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Apollo 11 on its first lunar revolution.
ALDRIN: You got a good view there, Neil?
ARMSTRONG: Yeah, I sure do.
COLLINS: It's beautiful out there.
ARMSTRONG: TPI approach. This is really something. You ought to look at this.
You want to watch our approach into the landing site.
You want to watch it right through this window. We're coming over.
We just passed Mount Marilyn. We're coming up on the Maskelyne series here,
straight out ahead.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Eighty hours, 48 minutes
now into the flight of Apollo 11.
Astronaut Charles Duke has arrived on the scene.
-DUKE: Hey, Dave? -REED: Yeah.
What put us four minutes ahead?
REED: We arrived at the moon four minutes early.
Speaks well for the BOOSTER.
Well, no...
CAPCOM: 11, that really winds things up as far as we're concerned on the ground
for the evening. We're ready to go to bed and get a little sleep, over.
ALDRIN: Yeah, we're about to join you.
CRONKITE: This is, of course, a great day for mankind
when we leave our planet Earth and set foot on the moon.
So on this historic day, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
are in their Lunar Module, in their spacesuits.
On this next pass, they are preparing to undock.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Both spacecraft looking very good at this time.
The following revolution, revolution 13, Armstrong and Aldrin,
they will undock from the Command and Service Module,
from which point the powered descent to the lunar surface will be initiated.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, Houston, we are go for undocking, over.
ALDRIN: Roger, understand.
ARMSTRONG: We're all set when you are, Mike.
COLLINS: Okay, here you go. See you later.
ARMSTRONG: See you.
ALDRIN: Looks like a good sep.
ARMSTRONG: Roger. Eagle's undocked.
ALDRIN: The Eagle has wings.
ARMSTRONG: It's looking good.
COLLINS: Thrusting.
Okay, Eagle. One minute till TIG. You guys take care.
ARMSTRONG: See you later.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Okay, all flight controllers, Go/No Go for powered descent.
-RETRO. -Go.
-FIDO. -Go.
-GUIDANCE. -Go.
-CONTROL. -Go.
-TELCOM. -Go.
-GNC. -Go.
-EECOM. -Go.
-SURGEON. -Go.
CAPCOM, we're go for powered descent.
CAPCOM: Eagle, Houston. If you read, you are go for powered descent, over.
ARMSTRONG: Descent armed.
ALDRIN: Altitude light's on.
ARMSTRONG: We will proceed.
ALDRIN: Proceed. One. Zero.
Ignition. Ten percent.
CAPCOM: Eagle, we got you now. It's looking good, over.
ALDRIN: Rate of descent looking good.
CAPCOM: EAGLE, Houston. Everything's looking good here, over.
ALDRIN: Roger, copy.
Houston, we're getting a little fluctuation in the AC voltage now.
CAPCOM: Roger.
-TELCOM: It's okay, FLIGHT. -CAPCOM: Stand by. Looking good to us.
You're still looking good at coming up three minutes.
ARMSTRONG: Okay, we went by the three-minute point early.
We're long.
Our position checks down range show us to be a little long.
CAPCOM: Roger, copy.
FLIGHT CONTROLLER: He thinks you're a little bit long downrange.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: I think we confirmed that.
-GUIDANCE: We confirm that. -FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Rog.
ALDRIN: Altitude rate looks right down the groove.
ARMSTRONG: Roger, about three seconds long. Rolling over.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Okay, all flight controllers, I'm going around the horn.
ARMSTRONG: Watch that signal strength.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Make your Go/No Goes based on the data you had prior to LOS.
I see we got it back. Give you another few seconds.
CONTROL: We're yawing.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Okay, RETRO. -RETRO: Go.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: FIDO. -FIDO: Go.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: GUIDANCE. -GUIDANCE: Go.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: CONTROL. -CONTROL: Go.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: TELCOM. -TELCOM: Go.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: GNC. -GNC: Go.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: EECOM. -EECOM: Go.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: SURGEON. -SURGEON: Go.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: CAPCOM, we're go to continue PDI.
CAPCOM: Eagle, Houston, you are go to continue...
ALDRIN: Okay, the ED Batts are go at four minutes.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Did you get that, TELCOM, ED Batts are go.
CAPCOM: You are go to continue powered descent.
You are go to continue powered descent.
And Eagle, Houston. We had data dropout. You're still looking good.
GUIDANCE: Looks good, FLIGHT. Looks good.
ARMSTRONG: Houston, you're looking at our Delta H.
-(ALARM SOUNDING) -Program alarm.
It's a 1202.
ALDRIN: 1202.
1202 alarm.
-FLIGHT CONTROLLER: 1202, what's that? -CAPCOM: 1202 alarm.
GARMAN: It's executive overflow. If it does not occur again, we're fine.
If it has not occurred again, continue.
GUIDANCE: We're go on that, FLIGHT.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: We're go on that alarm? -If it doesn't reoccur, we'll be go.
ARMSTRONG: Give us a reading on the 1202 program alarm.
GUIDANCE: We're go.
CAPCOM: Roger, we got you. We're go on that alarm.
(ALARM CONTINUES SOUNDING)
ARMSTRONG: Roger.
ALDRIN: Same alarm and it appears to come up when we have a 16/68 up.
CAPCOM: Six plus 25, throttle down. Six plus 25, throttle down.
-ARMSTRONG: Throttle down on time. -(ALARM STOPS)
ALDRIN: You can feel it in here when the throttle's down.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: All flight controllers, Go/No Go for landing.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: RETRO. FIDO. GUIDANCE. -Go.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: CONTROL. TELCOM. -Go.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: GNC. EECOM. SURGEON. -Go.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: CAPCOM, we're go for landing.
CAPCOM: Eagle, Houston. You're go for landing, over.
ALDRIN: Roger, understand. Go for landing, 3,000 feet. Program alarm.
(ALARM SOUNDING)
-1201. -ARMSTRONG: 1201.
1201 alarm.
GUIDANCE: Same type, we're go FLIGHT. CAPCOM: We're go.
ARMSTRONG: Pretty rocky area.
-CONTROL: Attitude hold. -FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Okay, att hold.
ALDRIN: 100 feet, three and half down. Nine forward.
-CAPCOM: We better be quiet, FLIGHT. -FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Rog.
CAPCOM: Okay, the only call-outs from now on will be fuel.
-CONTROL: Stand by for 60. -FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Rog.
-CONTROL: Sixty. -FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Sixty seconds.
CAPCOM: Sixty seconds.
ALDRIN: Lights on.
(RADIO STATIC SCRATCHING)
Sixty feet down. Two and a half.
Sixty-five feet...
ARMSTRONG: Okay, Houston, looks like a good area here.
ALDRIN: Looking good, down a half.
Two forward, forward.
That's good.
Forty feet down. Two and a half.
Picking up some dust.
Thirty feet. Two and a half down.
-CONTROL: Thirty. -FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Thirty seconds.
ALDRIN: Four forward. Drifting to the right a little.
Twenty feet, down a half, drifting forward just a little bit.
Light.
ARMSTRONG: Contact light.
-Shut down. -ALDRIN: Okay, engine stop.
ACA out of detent.
ARMSTRONG: Out of detent. Auto.
ALDRIN: Mode control both auto. Descent engine command override off.
Engine arm off. 413 is in.
ARMSTRONG: Engine arm is off.
(PEOPLE APPLAUDING)
CAPCOM: We copy you down, Eagle.
ARMSTRONG: Houston...
Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
CAPCOM: Roger, Twan-Tranquility.
We copy you on the ground.
You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue.
We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
ARMSTRONG: Thank you. Very smooth touchdown.
ARMSTRONG: Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase.
The auto targeting was taking us right into a football field-sized crater,
and it required us flying manually over the rock field
to find a reasonably good area.
CAPCOM: Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here.
Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room
and all over the world, over.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: We have some heart rates for Neil Armstrong
during that powered descent to the lunar surface.
At the time the burn was initiated, Armstrong's heart rate was 110.
At touchdown on the lunar surface, he had a heart rate of 156,
and the heart rate is now in the 90s,
and we do not have biomedical data on Buzz Aldrin.
ARMSTRONG: The hatch is coming open.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Hatch reported coming open
at 109 hours, eight minutes, five seconds.
ARMSTRONG: Okay, Houston. I'm on the porch.
CAPCOM: Roger, Neil.
ALDRIN: Okay, everything's nice and straight in here.
ARMSTRONG: Okay, can you pull the door open a little more?
ALDRIN: All right.
ARMSTRONG: Houston, this is Neil, radio check.
CAPCOM: Neil, this is Houston, loud and clear.
Break, break. Buzz this is Houston,
radio check and verify TV circuit breaker in.
ALDRIN: Roger, TV circuit breaker's in. And read you loud and clear.
CAPCOM: Roger.
And we're getting a picture on the TV.
ALDRIN: I hope you got a good picture.
CAPCOM: There's a great deal of contrast in it,
and, currently, it's upside down on our monitor,
but we can make out a fair amount of detail.
ALDRIN: Okay.
ARMSTRONG: I'm at the foot of the ladder.
The LM footpads are only
depressed in the surface about 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.
Ground mass is very fine.
I'm going to step off the LM now.
That's one small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind.
I only go in a small fraction of an inch,
maybe an eighth of an inch,
but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads
in the fine, sandy particles.
CAPCOM: Neil, 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 that we performed
in various simulations on the ground.
The descent engine did not leave a crater of any size.
It has about a one-foot clearance on the ground.
I can see some evidence of rays emanating from the descent engine,
but a very insignificant amount.
CAPCOM: Roger, Neil. We're reading you loud and clear.
We see you getting some pictures and the contingency sample.
ARMSTRONG: Interesting. It's a very soft surface,
but here and there where I plug with the contingency sample collector,
I run into very hard surface
but it appears to be very cohesive material of the same sort.
I'll try to get a rock in here.
CAPCOM: That looks beautiful from here, Neil.
ARMSTRONG: It has a stark beauty all of its own.
It's like much of the high desert of the United States.
It's different, but it's very pretty out here.
-That in the pocket? -ALDRIN: Ah, yeah. Push down.
Got it?
No, it's not all the way in. Push it.
There you go.
ARMSTRONG: Contingency sample is in the pocket.
My oxygen is 81%.
I have no flags, and I'm in minimum flow.
ALDRIN: Okay. I got the camera going at one frame a second.
Ready for me to come out?
ARMSTRONG: Just stand by a second. I'll move this over the handrail.
ALDRIN: How far are my feet from the...
ARMSTRONG: Okay, you're right at the edge of the porch.
ALDRIN: Okay, now I want to back up and partially close the hatch,
making sure not to lock it on my way out.
ARMSTRONG: (LAUGHING) Particularly good thought.
ALDRIN: That's our home for the next couple of hours,
and we want to take good care of it.
ARMSTRONG: You're on... You've got three more steps and then a long one.
ALDRIN: Beautiful view.
ARMSTRONG: Isn't that something? Magnificent sight out here.
ALDRIN: Magnificent desolation.
ARMSTRONG: Okay, Houston. I'm going to change lenses on you.
CAPCOM: Roger, Neil.
We're getting a new picture. You can tell it's a longer focal length lens.
ARMSTRONG: For those who haven't read the plaque,
we'll read the plaque that's on the front landing gear of this LM.
"Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon.
"July 1969 A.D.
"We came in peace for all mankind."
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Neil Armstrong getting ready to move the TV camera now
out to its panorama position.
ARMSTRONG: I got plenty of cable.
ALDRIN: You got plenty. Plenty more.
CAPCOM: Okay, it looks good there, Neil.
ARMSTRONG: Okay.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: One hour seven minutes' time expended.
Buzz is erecting the solar wind experiment now.
ALDRIN: Some of these small depressions through the upper surface of the soil
and about five or six inches of bay,
it breaks loose and moves as if it were caked on the surface
when, in fact, it really isn't.
COLLINS: Houston, Columbia on high gain, over.
CAPCOM: Columbia, this is Houston reading you loud and clear, over.
COLLINS: Yeah, reading you loud and clear. How's it going?
CAPCOM: Roger, the EVA is progressing beautifully.
They're setting up the flag now.
COLLINS: Great.
CAPCOM: I guess you're about the only person around
that doesn't have TV coverage of the scene.
COLLINS: How is the quality of the TV?
CAPCOM: It's beautiful, Mike. It really is.
They've got the flag up now,
and you can see the stars and stripes on the lunar surface.
COLLINS: Beautiful, just beautiful.
CAPCOM: 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.
CAPCOM: Go ahead, Mr. President. This is Houston, out.
RICHARD 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
from the White House. I just can't 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. Because of what you have done,
the heavens have become a part of man's 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.
ARMSTRONG: Thank you, Mr. 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 interests and curiosity and with the vision for the future.
It's an honor for us to be able to participate here today.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Neil's been on the surface an hour now,
Buzz not quite 20 minutes less than that.
Heart rates on both crewmen averaging between 90 and 100.
ARMSTRONG: I don't note any abnormalities in the LM.
Quads seem to be in good shape.
The primary and secondary struts are in good shape.
Antennas are all in place.
There's no evidence of problems underneath.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: The SEQ bay contains the scientific experiments
to be left on the surface of the moon.
ALDRIN: You got us a good area picked out?
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Buzz Aldrin carrying the two experiments.
ARMSTRONG: Straight out on that rise out there is probably as good as any.
ALDRIN: I'm going to have to get on the other side of this rock.
ARMSTRONG: Yeah. The laser reflector is installed, and the bubble's level
and the alignment appear to be good.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: They've been on their life support systems
two hours, 25 minutes.
ALDRIN: Houston, I have the seismic experiment flipped over now,
and I'm aligning it with the sun
and all parts of the solar array are clear of the ground now.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Buzz Aldrin is collecting a core tube sample.
ALDRIN: It almost looks wet.
ARMSTRONG: Got it! Sampled.
CAPCOM: Neil, this is Houston.
After you've got the core tubes and the solar wind,
anything else that you can throw into the box would be acceptable.
ARMSTRONG: Houston, we've got about, I'd say, 20 pounds of carefully selected,
if not documented, samples.
CAPCOM: Houston. Roger, well done, out.
ALDRIN: Anything more before I head on up, Bruce?
CAPCOM: Negative, head on up the ladder, Buzz.
ALDRIN: Adiós, amigos.
ARMSTRONG: Okay.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Transferring the sample containers into the LM cabin now.
Unofficial time off the surface at 111:37:32.
ALDRIN: Okay, the hatch is closed and latched and verified secure.
ARMSTRONG: Okay.
CAPCOM: And we'd like to say from all of us down here in Houston
and really from all of us in all the countries in the entire world,
we think that you've done a magnificent job up there today, over.
ARMSTRONG: Thank you very much.
ALDRIN: It's been a long day.
CAPCOM: Yes, indeed. Get some rest there and have at it tomorrow.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Not since Adam has any human known
such solitude as Mike Collins is experiencing
during the 47 minutes of each lunar revolution when he's behind the moon,
while he waits for his comrades to soar with Eagle from Tranquility Base,
and rejoin him for the trip back to Earth.
Collins, with the help of flight controllers
here in Mission Control Center,
has kept the Command Module systems going pocketa, pocketa, pocketa.
CAPCOM: Columbia, Columbia, good morning from Houston.
COLLINS: How's the black team today? All primed and rarin' to go?
CAPCOM: You betcha there, Mike.
Going to keep you a little busy here. Soon as we get the state vector in,
we'd like you to go ahead and do a P52, option three.
And then when you come on around the other side there,
we'll give you some landmark tracking information on the 130.
COLLINS: All right, fine, understand. Thank you.
CAPCOM: Tranquility Base, Houston. How was the resting standing up there?
Did you get a chance to curl up on the engine can?
ALDRIN: Roger. Neil has rigged himself a really good hammock with a waist tether,
and he's been lying on the ascent engine cover,
and I curled up on the floor, over.
CAPCOM: Roger. Copy, Buzz.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Our science support room here
in Mission Control Center
reports receiving continuous data
from the passive seismic experiment placed on the lunar surface
last night by the Apollo 11 crew.
Recorded the astronauts' footsteps on the moon
and will probably receive its strongest signal when the ascent engine ignites
and starts Eagle on its way into lunar orbit and rendezvous with Columbia.
-CAPCOM: Tranquility Base, Houston. -ARMSTRONG: Go ahead.
CAPCOM: Roger. Just a reminder here, we want to make sure
you leave the rendezvous radar circuit breakers pulled.
ARMSTRONG: Okay.
JIM LOVELL: Eagle and Columbia, this is the backup crew.
Our congratulations on yesterday's performance
and our prayers are with you for the rendezvous, over.
COLLINS: Thank you, Jim.
ARMSTRONG: Thank you, Jim.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Almost 5,000 pounds of propellant
will be run through the ascent engine
on the ascent burn which will place Eagle back into lunar orbit
and following that, the rendezvous sequence
completed with the docking at 128 hours approximately.
Flight Operations Director Chris Kraft commented that some 500 million people
around the world were helping push Eagle off the moon and back into orbit.
Flight Director Glynn Lunney is polling the various positions
here in the control room on their readiness.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: FIDO, status. -FIDO: Got it all. Go.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: GUIDANCE.
GUIDANCE: Waiting for guidance steering at two minutes.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: CONTROL. -CONTROL: We're go, FLIGHT.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: TELCOM. -Go, FLIGHT.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: SURGEON. -Go, FLIGHT.
GUIDANCE: We see it, FLIGHT. Looks good.
CAPCOM: Tranquility Base, Houston.
ARMSTRONG: Roger, go ahead.
CAPCOM: Roger, Eagle's looking real fine to us down here,
and you're cleared for takeoff.
ALDRIN: Roger, understand. We're number one the runway.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: GUIDANCE reports both navigation systems on Eagle
are looking good.
ALDRIN: Nine, eight, seven, six,
five, abort stage, engine arm. Ascent. Proceed.
(ENGINE ROARS)
ARMSTRONG: The Eagle has wings.
ALDRIN: Stand by for pitchover. Very smooth.
(RADIO STATIC SCRATCHING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)
ARMSTRONG: We're going right down US 1.
CAPCOM: Roger.
ALDRIN: Not very much thruster activity.
FIDO: FLIGHT, FIDO. PGNS, MSFN, we're looking good.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Roger, mighty fine. -GUIDANCE: Go both systems.
-Thirty seconds, FLIGHT. -ALDRIN: 700, 150 up. Beautiful.
-FLIGHT DIRECTOR: TELCOM. -TELECOM: Go.
(ENGINE ROARS)
CAPCOM: Eagle Houston, you're still looking mighty fine.
ALDRIN: Roger. Good agreement in Delta-V to go in both AGS and PGNS.
CAPCOM: Roger.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: All three data sources are agreeing quite closely here.
CAPCOM: Eagle, Houston. Aft Omni, low-bit rate,
and we'll see you at 127 plus 51.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: 127 hours, 39 minutes, 39.2 seconds.
This is the start time for a series of velocity match maneuvers
to bring Eagle in with Columbia.
ALDRIN: Houston, the AGS has a Delta-H of 15.5 and a maneuver of 51.3.
(RADIO STATIC SCRATCHING)
CAPCOM: Roger, we copy.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: As the two vehicles come around
on the 26th lunar revolution,
Mike Collins aboard Columbia
is spring-loaded to do what is called a mirror image maneuver.
ARMSTRONG: Okay, we're about 500 feet a second coming in at you.
(RADIO STATIC SCRATCHING)
COLLINS: Eagle, Columbia. I've got 470 now for R-dot, and I just broke lock.
Could you hold silence for a few seconds here while I reacquire?
Columbia has reacquired you.
ARMSTRONG: Okay, Mike, I'll try to get in position here and then you got it.
COLLINS: Eagle, Columbia's starting to maneuver to TPI attitude.
ARMSTRONG: Okay.
Looks good, Mike.
(METALLIC THUD)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)
ALDRIN: Okay, we're all yours, Columbia.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Communications are somewhat scratchy
with Columbia and Eagle now reunited to become Apollo 11 again.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, Houston, about a minute and a half to LOS.
You're looking great. It's been a mighty fine day.
COLLINS: Boy, you're not kidding.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Armstrong and Aldrin transferring
back to the Command Module with Mike Collins.
COLLINS: Houston, this is Columbia reading you loud and clear.
We're all three back inside. The hatch is installed.
We're running a pressure integrity check. Everything's going well.
CAPCOM: Roger. How's it feel up there to have some company?
COLLINS: Damn good, I'll tell you.
CAPCOM: I bet.
I bet you'd almost be talking to yourself up there after 10 revs or so.
COLLINS: No, no. It's a happy home up here.
It'd be nice to have 100 million Americans up here.
CAPCOM: Rog. They were with you in spirit anyway, at least that many.
COLLINS: Thank you, sir.
CAPCOM: And Apollo 11, Houston, all your systems look real good to us.
We would like you to jettison Eagle.
You're go for power arm, and you're go for a jettison.
ALDRIN: Okay.
There she goes. She was a good one.
CAPCOM: Roger dodger. We got Eagle looking good.
It's holding cabin pressure,
and it picked up about two feet per second from that jettison.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: The crew jettisoned the LM
at 130 hours, 30 minutes.
We're now 10 seconds away from trans-Earth Injection.
They will burn their service propulsion system engine
for two minutes, 28 seconds, to start them on their way back to Earth.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, Houston. One minute to LOS.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: The trans-Earth injection maneuver
will be performed on the backside of the moon
at the beginning of the 31st revolution.
We'll reacquire the spacecraft on the other side of the moon.
CAPCOM: Hello, Apollo 11. Houston.
You're looking good going over the hill. Go sic 'em!
ALDRIN: Thank you, sir. We'll do it.
COLLINS: Stand by now. Stand by for ullage. Ullage.
ALDRIN: Got the ullage.
COLLINS: Burn! A good one. Nice.
-ALDRIN: I got two balls. -COLLINS: Here come the other two.
ALDRIN: Barber pole, gray. The other two are on good.
COLLINS: Man, that feels like G, doesn't it?
(RADIO STATIC SCRATCHING)
COLLINS: One minute. Chamber pressure's holding right on 100.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)
(RADIO STATIC SCRATCHING)
COLLINS: Gimbals look good. Total attitude looks good.
Rates are damped out a little bit.
(RADIO STATIC SCRATCHING)
COLLINS: Standing by for engine off.
ARMSTRONG: It should be shut down now.
-COLLINS: Okay. -ARMSTRONG: Shut down.
COLLINS: Beautiful.
ALDRIN: Beautiful burn. SPS, I love you! You are a jewel!
CAPCOM: AOS.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: And there's the cue. We have acquisition of signal.
(PEOPLE APPLAUDING)
Hallelujah!
COLLINS: Thank you, Charlie boy. Looking good here.
That was a beautiful burn. They don't come any finer.
CAPCOM: Roger.
COLLINS: Tell 'em to open up the LRL doors, Charlie.
CAPCOM: Roger, we got you coming home.
ALDRIN: Let's get some music. How about these tapes?
("MOTHER COUNTRY" PLAYING ON SPEAKERS)
(SINGING) When a century was born and a century had died
About these good old days The old lady replied
Why, they were just a lot of people
Doing the best they could
Just a lot of people Doing the best they could
And then the lady said
That they did it pretty up And walking good
Whatever happened to those faces In the old photographs?
I mean the little boys
Boys
Hell, they were men
And here they come
Sitting straight and proud
And he's driving her stone blind
And would you look at her
Ah, she never looked finer
Always better than today
Sweetheart on parade
And the people cheered
Why I even saw grown men
Break right down and cry
And the sun, it's going down
For Mr. Bouie
As he's singing with his class of 1902
Oh, mother country
I do love you
Oh...
Mother country, I do love you...
ARMSTRONG: Hey, this should be getting larger.
And if it is, it's the place we're coming home to.
No matter where you travel, it's always nice to get home.
CAPCOM: We concur, 11. We'll be happy to have you back.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Apollo 11 now 94,961 nautical miles from Earth.
Re-entry is scheduled to begin 18 hours, 18 minutes, and 12 seconds.
COLLINS: How's old FLIGHT, Bruce?
Did he ever let you go get a cup of coffee
while we were over on the backside?
BRUCE: Things have been going pretty smoothly down here.
He's really not that hard to get along with.
COLLINS: He must be mellowing.
BRUCE: Well, we've only got two of them back here right now.
The next item scheduled on the flight plan is a television transmission.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: You may be interested in knowing
that Jan and the children,
and Pat and the youngsters, and Andy Aldrin are down here
in the viewing room, watching this evening.
ALDRIN: Oh, we're glad to hear that.
ARMSTRONG: You have good S-band signal strength now, Houston?
CAPCOM: Okay, you're coming through loud and clear now, 11, with your patch.
ALDRIN: This has been far more than three men on a voyage to the moon.
We feel that this stands as a symbol
of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
This operation is somewhat like the periscope of a submarine.
All you see is the three of us.
But beneath the surface are thousands and thousands of others.
We'd like to give a special thanks to all those Americans
who built those spacecraft,
who did the construction,
design, the tests,
and put their...
Their hearts and all their abilities into those crafts.
To those people, tonight we give a special thank you.
And to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight,
God bless you. Goodnight from Apollo 11.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Weather in the recovery area,
the skies will be partly cloudy,
a six-foot sea,
temperature near 80 degrees.
This landing area is 215 miles to the northeast
from the original landing area.
It moved because of thundershowers in the original area.
Apollo 11's distance now is 3,000 nautical miles,
velocity 26,685 feet per second.
In the next 20 minutes, Apollo 11 will add almost 10,000 feet per second
to that figure. Entry at 75 statute miles.
Beginning blackout at 62 statute miles.
And main chute deployment, 10,500 feet.
CAPCOM: And 11, Houston. Weather's still holding real fine in the recovery area.
Looks like it's about 1,500 scattered,
high scattered, and still three-to six-foot waves.
COLLINS: The air part of it sounds good.
CAPCOM: Roger.
COLLINS: The Earth is really getting bigger up here,
and, of course, we see a crescent.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Apollo 11 lined up
right down the middle of the entry corridor.
We're a minute and 45 seconds from entry.
Blackout will begin 18 seconds after entry.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, Houston. You're still looking mighty fine here.
You're cleared for landing.
COLLINS: We appreciate that, Ron. Thank you.
-ALDRIN: Rog. Gear's down and locked. -CAPCOM: Roger.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: The guidance officer reports
the Command Module computer looks good
and the guidance and navigation system is go.
CAPCOM: And 11, Houston. You're going over the hill there shortly.
You're looking mighty fine to us.
ARMSTRONG: See you later.
-ALDRIN: There's your horizon. -ARMSTRONG: Got the horizon now.
(BEEPING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: And beginning of blackout
approximately 17 seconds after entry interface
into the atmosphere.
400,000 feet or approximately 85 miles above the Earth.
At blackout,
we were showing velocity of 36,237 feet per second.
Range to go to splash, 1,510 nautical miles.
TRACKING STATION: LOS.
REDSTONE TRACKING STATION: Redstone LOS. Blackout.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, Houston, through ARIA.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, Houston, through ARIA.
(RADIO STATIC SCRATCHING)
Apollo 11, Houston, through ARIA 4.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR: Okay, CAPCOM,
one last call here. Then we'll have to give up
and let the Recovery people have it.
CAPCOM: Apollo 11, Houston, through ARIA.
RECOVERY OFFICER: Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Hornet. Hornet, over.
COLLINS: This is Apollo 11, reading you loud and clear.
Our position, 1330 16915.
There they are!
(ALL CHEERING)
RECOVERY OFFICER: Condition of crew, over.
ARMSTRONG: The condition of the crew, 4,000-3,500 feet on the way down.
Latitude, longitude, 13.30, 169.15, over.
RECOVERY CREW: Hornet roger, copy, out.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Hornet reports spacecraft right on target point.
RESCUE PERSONNEL: Splashdown! Splashdown!
RECOVERY OFFICER: Hornet copies.
SWIM 1: This is SWIM 1. The Command Module is at stable 1.
RECOVERY OFFICER: Hornet, roger.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: Stable 1 now, stable 1.
COLLINS: Our condition is all three excellent.
We're just fine. Take your time.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: That was Mike Collins reporting the crew is excellent.
RESCUE OFFICER: The third astronaut is in the net and on his way up.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)
This is Recovery 1, I have three astronauts aboard.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)
(PEOPLE CHEERING)
HORNET: Recovery 1, Hornet. Understand.
BIG swimmer has completed his decontamination of the Command Module.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER: The elevator will take Recovery 1
down to the hangar deck where the crew will enter
the Mobile Quarantine Facility.
This control center becoming jammed with people.
We've never seen this many people in the control center at one time before.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING EXCITEDLY)
The Apollo 11 plaque has been hung in the Mission Control Center,
a replica of the crew patch.
(PEOPLE WHISTLING AND CHEERING)
And the flags are waving and the cigars are being lit up,
and clear across the big board in front
is President John F. Kennedy's message to Congress
of May, 1961.
JOHN F. KENNEDY: Even though I realize that this is,
in some measure, an act of faith and vision.
For we do not now know
what benefits await us.
But if I were to say, my fellow citizens,
that we shall send to the moon,
240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston,
a giant rocket, more than 300 feet tall,
fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch,
carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance,
control, communications, food, and survival,
on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body,
and then return it safely to Earth,
re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour,
causing heat about half that on the temperature of the sun,
almost as hot as it is here today,
and do all this, and do all this and do it right, and do it first,
before this decade is out,
then we must be bold.
(PEOPLE CHEERING)
CRONKITE: Man's first trip to the moon, a magnificent eight-day voyage
spanning time and space and history,
ended today when three American explorers
brought their small ship down safely in the Pacific.
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins
landed their spacecraft southwest of Hawaii
at 10 minutes of one, Eastern time,
nine miles from the recovery ship and two miles off target.
After donning protective clothing,
the three astronauts were airlifted to the carrier Hornet,
and transferred to a special isolation chamber.
They'll be quarantined 18 days while scientists determine
if they've brought back any dangerous lunar organisms.
Their flight climaxed centuries of dreaming
and months and years of planning and training.
(PEOPLE CHEERING)
I'd like to take this opportunity
particularly to thank all those of you I see out there who are my gracious hosts
here in the lunar receiving laboratory.
And I can't say that I would choose to spend a couple of weeks like that,
but I'm very glad that we got the opportunity to complete the mission.
(ALL APPLAUDING)
(INAUDIBLE)