From the Earth to the Moon (1998) s01e06 Episode Script

We choose to go to the moon.
We choose to go to the moon.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard.
- Look at that.
- That's beautiful.
It's gotta be one of the most proud moments of my life.
I guarantee ya.
Apollo 1 1 might never have happened were it not for three very specific people.
You've probably never heard of Sergei Korolev, but without him the Soviet Union might never have put a man into space nor stirred the competitive juices of his American counterparts.
Wernher Von Braun was the German rocket scientist who turned the weapons of World War Two into the giant Saturn boosters of the space race 20 years later.
Kennedy vowed to send a man to the moon and return him safely long before it was known to be possible.
Korolev, Von Braun and Kennedy, working at a time when politics, economics and technology were being defined by mankind's breaching of outer space, were the keystones in the bridge that carried another celebrated trio on their historic voyage from the Earth to the moon.
You fellas all know what we're doing here, right? - Think so.
- Just shooting the shit.
Informal.
No big deal.
Coffee klatch kind of stuff we can cut into any time during our broadcast of the mission.
- Are we underdressed, Emmett? - Not at all, boys.
I'm just a creature of habit.
I can't go on the air without putting on my tie.
We'll be on the air from the moment you cross through the equigravisphere right up through the big moment.
- I'm gonna need all the help I can get.
- I don't know, Emmett.
Cronkite worked us over.
I don't know how much we have left.
Let me worry about Cronkite.
I've got good stuff on each of you but don't get too formal about it.
Say any damn thing you please, any damn thing you want.
Neil, I'll start with you.
Then you, Buzz.
- Mike, you'll be Tail-End Charlie.
- I'm always Tail-End Charlie.
Forget what I just said.
We'll start with you.
Now, Mike, you have a role unlike any other human being in the world.
- So, are we beginning now? - Oh, yeah.
They started rolling the minute I sat down.
We are having an informal chat with these three men who need no introduction.
This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control.
We can now count down for Apollo 1 1, the flight to land the first men on the moon.
We're on time at the present time for our planned liftoff of 32 minutes past the hour.
T minus 60 seconds and counting.
We've passed T minus 60.
55 seconds and counting.
Neil Armstrong reported back when he received the good wishes, "Thank you very much.
We know it will be a good flight.
" Good luck and Godspeed.
40 seconds away from the Apollo 1 1 liftoff.
All second-stage tanks now pressurized.
35 seconds and counting.
We are still go with Apollo 1 1.
30 seconds and counting.
Astronauts report it feels good.
T minus 25 seconds.
20 seconds and counting.
T minus 1 5 seconds.
Guidance is internal.
Twelve, eleven, ten, nine Ignition sequence starts.
Six, five, four, three, two, one Liftoff.
We have a liftoff.
That was four days ago.
It was witnessed in person by over a million people in Florida and billions of people on television around the world.
It was history.
I'm Emmett Seaborn.
You are watching NTC's special coverage of Apollo 1 1 to the Sea of Tranquility.
The date is July 20th.
The year, 1969.
If everything goes according to plan, an event will take place today that will forever mark the 20th day of the seventh month of the year.
I can guarantee that you'll remember this day, where you are and what you are doing.
This is a day mankind has anticipated ever since we first lifted our eyes under the night-time sky and wondered what marvels wait for us up there on the face of our beautiful, mysterious companion in the cosmos.
Today is the day we find out.
Today is the day we set foot on the moon.
There is a mood of intense anticipation here for very many reasons.
Worldwide audience estimated at 400 million.
The French press is dominated by Apollo 1 1.
The journey of Apollo 1 1 will continue.
Hope they don't bring too many germs down here.
- Wanna go to the moon? - Yes, if possible, I'd very like to.
- The beginning of the moon landing - Man's first step watched by all the world, united in a way never before possible.
It's a groovy trip but there are more important things.
It will be a revelation to all mankind that the universe and the creation is so much greater than anybody ever realised.
Just how do you land on the moon? That is the task at hand today for the crew of Apollo 1 1 and it has been the subject and preoccupation of a great many people for a great many months, including Jay Honeycutt, NASA flight simulation supervisor.
Tell me, Jay.
The simulation facilities are all computer-driven but just how lifelike are they really? All the problems that we create in a simulator can happen in the flight and the crew sees the moon as it would be outside the window.
The simulator performs just as the LEM would.
The lunar module.
Under whatever circumstances we can create.
So, if things go south in the simulator The crew has to take the necessary steps to save the mission.
Or, theoretically, their lives.
Yes.
The landing begins at 50,000 feet above the lunar surface, when Armstrong and Aldrin are given the go for power descent.
At 46,000 feet Armstrong will roll the LEM onto its back.
At 7,500 feet the computer's final landing programme, P-64, will commence, pitching the LEM forward from face up to about 30 degrees from vertical, allowing Armstrong and Aldrin to see the lunar surface.
As they approach the landing site the most crucial information will be altitude, rate of descent, horizontal velocity and propellant remaining.
If they get below about 80 seconds of fuel remaining, the "quantity" light will illuminate.
At that point they've got 60 seconds to decide whether or not to land, leaving them 20 seconds of fuel to either get down or level off their descent and abort.
At six feet, if all goes well, probes extending from the landing gear will touch the surface and they will get the contact light.
Armstrong will then shut off the descent engine and they will drop gently to the surface and mankind will never be the same again, blah, blah, blah.
The landing is, by far, the most difficult part of this mission.
Getting to the moon isn't easy.
Neither is walking on it.
Or blasting off, docking and going home.
But the landing, that's the thing.
One shot, no second approaches, a quarter of a million miles from home.
For the next three months, you and I will do everything in our power to see that these men land safely, which means we must do everything in our power to kill them.
So, how many times have you "killed" the crew of Apollo 1 1? - Well, many times.
- Hundreds of times? Thousands? It's all for their own good.
I understand the crew kept training in the simulators up to the last minutes.
Armstrong and Aldrin were in the simulator at the Cape right up to the day before the launch.
How did they do? Did they make a good landing? Emmett, they were absolutely perfect.
I appreciate your coming by.
Thanks for putting up with me.
Now, some time ago, well before they entered the flight crew health stabilization programme prior to last Wednesday's launch, I had the special opportunity - well, honour, really - to chat with Michael Collins, as well as Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong.
We're having a chat with these three men who need no introduction.
Starting with you, Michael Collins.
While your crewmates walk around in the Sea of Tranquility, you'll be all alone, the only member of the human race completely cut off from Mother Earth.
Won't it get terribly lonely? Well, I'll be plenty busy with some interesting mission objectives.
And of course I'll have a great view to look at.
And I'm taking along a few good books, just in case.
Now, Mr Neil Armstrong.
The moon.
A lot of cockamamie theories about landing on it and how it would be impossible.
But the point is, being the first to do it, you don't know exactly what's gonna happen.
I mean, how do you physically train for such a thing? Well, Emmett one way is to climb into an aircraft we call the flying bedstead.
The LLRV.
The lunar landing research vehicle.
- Right.
- Essentially, a big jet engine turned on its end.
Yeah.
It's a tricky machine.
The demands it places on a pilot are similar to those I'll be facing making the moon landing.
- OK, Neil, you're clear to start.
- Roger.
500 feet.
The winds are a little gusty.
- You are go for lunar sim.
- Roger.
Go for lunar sim.
Computer to sim mode.
Beginning descent.
I've got a touchdown point.
60 seconds of fuel.
Coming down through 200 feet.
Got a light.
Attitude control.
I've lost thrusters.
You all right? So, you walked away in one piece to fly another day.
Pretty much.
I did bite my tongue pretty bad, but Incredible.
Neil, let me wax a little philosophic here.
You've lifted off, flown to the moon without biting your tongue.
You're finally climbing down the Eagle's ladder, about to set foot on the moon.
What will be going through your mind then? Emmett I just hope I don't trip.
Will there be something said, some act performed? Do you have something ready to say? I wanna say, Frank, I was inspired by what you guys did.
Reading from Genesis.
That was great.
Yeah, well, we're being sued by an atheist.
So, with all these kings and queens and presidents, who was your favourite? Oh, the Pope.
He's the best.
Listen to me.
"The Pope, he's the best.
" When did you decide to say that? After a PAO up in Washington took me aside and told me more people will be watching us than ever watched anyone in human history.
We'd better have something appropriate to say.
What are you guys gonna say? If you had any balls you'd say, "Oh, my God! What is that thing?" Then scream and cut your mic.
Seriously, now.
A verse? Quotes? A dedication? Truthfully I'm concentrating pretty much on the landing, but I do have faith that if everything goes well, something appropriate will occur.
- Why don't you surprise us? - OK.
On to you, Buzz.
Your official position on the crew is listed as lunar module pilot, which is something of a misnomer since you don't actually pilot the LEM as much as safeguard it.
- Is that fair to say? - Yes.
It'll be my job to see to it that the LEM is a healthy machine, all systems are running smoothly, feeding Neil the data he needs.
If anything requires a special course of action, I will take that action.
Buzz, there are a lot of things we know about you.
We know that you were a combat pilot in the Korean War, that you earned a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in orbital mechanics.
We know that you're a spiritual man.
Your wife is named Joan and your life has been chronicled and featured and photographed ever since the mission of Apollo 1 1 placed you in the world spotlight.
You're also gonna be the second man to walk on the face of the moon.
But, shoot, Buzz, wouldn't you like to be the guy that gets out first? Well, Emmett, the important thing to remember here is that Neil and I will be landing on the moon at the same time.
Who gets out first is relatively insignificant.
We'll review all this with Deke later.
OK? I've been reviewing the flight plan, both the current one and last year's, as well as the Gemini flight plans, and there's something I think could bear some scrutiny as we head into the Sims.
Neil, it's this question about which one of us should get out first.
Have you given that any thought? To be honest with you, Buzz, I've been more concerned with the landing.
In Gemini the pilot did the EVA while the commander stayed on board.
Buzz, look.
I appreciate the historical significance of this thing and I'm not gonna rule anything out right now, but whatever we decide, it should be what's best for the mission.
Have you given it any thought? I wish it wasn't even an issue.
I'd rather be on the second landing so we could just worry about the science and not the eyes of history or whatever.
Have you thought about asking for another mission? Yeah.
But you can't.
No, I go on 1 1 or I don't go at all.
Do you want to get out first? Well, it might as well be me.
Don't you think? Yes.
I do.
Walking on the moon will be a tangible achievement but what it will represent is where all of mankind is right now and what we can do and where we can go if we put to use the great gifts that we've been given.
God love Neil.
He's a good man.
But I'm afraid he's so consumed by the physical task of landing, I don't know how much attention he's prepared to give to the larger issue of what we're doing and what it means to the world.
Some measure of attention should be paid to the meaning of the task by whichever one of us takes that first step.
Since the mission parameters are still in the planning stage and the order of the crew egress is yet to be determined, I took the liberty of calling George Low.
He's one of the administrators.
I told him that for the good of the mission, a decision should be made as to which of us should get out first, Neil or myself.
Hey, guys.
Buzz, I got a call from George Low.
He told me that you felt that a decision had to be made, that it was bad for morale.
OK, so here's the decision.
Neil gets out first.
He's the commander.
He's the senior astronaut.
And besides that, the way that hatch opens, it'd be damned difficult for the LMP to get out first unless you two switch places.
You'll both be wearing hard suits and backpacks, so that's not gonna happen.
I see what you mean.
OK.
So the issue's settled.
So, were it not for a decision in the design phase of the lunar module, a 50-50 coin toss of which way the hatch opens, you might have ended up to be the first man to walk on the moon instead of Neil.
Possibly.
"Possibly.
" Michael Collins, last time we left you, you were still flying around the moon in the command module.
- Catching up on my reading.
- Catching up on your reading.
Let me be pragmatic and deal with a hard issue here for a minute.
What if something goes wrong? You've trained to come back to Earth as the sole survivor of Apollo 1 1, haven't you? Nobody likes to dwell on such things, but that is one of the scenarios that we practice in flight simulation.
Well, in fact, all three of you train constantly for things going wrong, don't you? You even practice crashing, don't you? Well, actually, Emmett, we practice avoiding crashes.
We're gonna pick up at pitch over minus 30.
- Everybody ready? - Ready, Flight.
OK, gents.
And here we go.
Eagle, this is Houston.
We are ready to commence full-up sim beginning at pitch over minus 30.
Pitch over in five, four, three, two, one, mark.
- Pitch over.
- We're in P-64.
Showing 6,000 feet.
Down at 100 feet per second.
Looks good.
Readout PD, 40 degrees.
40 degrees.
That's good.
I like that.
5,000 feet, Flight.
I'm gonna check my manual attitude control.
Roger.
Manual attitude control is good.
We copy.
Looks good from here.
- How you looking, Guidance? - Good.
They're right on the marks.
3,500, still at 60.
Looking good.
Oops.
We've lost our AGS.
We're still getting that.
Houston, shall I cycle an AGS breaker? Yeah.
Flight, tell them to cycle the DEDA breaker.
Eagle, this is Houston.
Cycle the DEDA breaker.
Roger, Houston.
Cycling the DEDA breaker.
And while they're looking at that OK, Houston, we've got the AGS back.
Houston, is your We copy.
Disregard.
Neil, H-dot.
We're dropping.
I think we got 'em, gents.
Neil, we're coming down too fast.
Neil, abort.
They've exceeded H-dot max.
Eagle, this is Houston.
We recommend you abort.
Don't be afraid to call an abort.
We can't afford to hesitate.
That goes for you too, Neil.
- I was waiting for your read.
- Don't forget the delay.
1.
3 seconds can be a long time.
You might not want to wait for our read.
- Roger that.
- Anybody got anything else? - Buzz, anything to add? - Nope.
It's all been covered.
OK, that's it, guys.
Thanks, Gene.
See ya.
Neil, are we finished? The loop was wide open.
Everyone was listening.
Here, Houston, Marshall, Washington.
They were all listening.
It was a disaster.
We should've aborted.
There was no reason not to.
Maybe he was waiting on Houston.
Mike, it wasn't a situation we needed advice about.
We crashed it so hard we broke the simulator.
- It's gonna go down as a crew failure.
- You fellas wanna keep it down? We should have aborted.
I think I'm gonna call it a night.
Neil, we crashed.
Buzz, Sims are for learning.
We had four successful aborts before that one.
I wanted to see what would happen if we waited for Houston.
If it was anyone's failure, it was theirs, not ours.
If you're worried we'll catch hell for it, I'll tell everyone the score, but there's no point in rubbing Gene's nose in it.
He knows what happened.
Hey, you know, I've been going through the mission plan.
They've given us lots of time after we land to fix any problems we have, but they've scheduled a four-hour rest period before we do the EVA.
What do you say we move the rest period to after the EVA? That way, if everything's shipshape we'll get out there as soon as possible.
Get some sleep, Buzz.
OK, let's shift gears here.
Michael, tell me about your design for the patch.
You're the artist.
What does it mean? I cheated a bit by copying the eagle from a National Geographic.
- We're not gonna hold that against you.
- Thank you.
We all talked about it.
The eagle, it's obvious, is the LEM.
It's also a symbol of America, without being too overt.
It carries an olive branch to show that we go to the moon in peace.
But your names aren't on it.
Why none of your names? Because going to the moon is larger than us as individuals.
The Earth represents, well, everyone because the mission is bigger than nations or politics.
What is significant is that for the first time in the history of our civilization a man is going to set foot on the moon.
Not that man's name.
The only word in English is "Apollo".
That way the whole world can read it and maybe claim that it's their own.
Well, if that's the case, why don't we just let history record the rest? Good luck to you and Godspeed Apollo 1 1.
Thank you.
At this moment the crew is preparing for the challenges of the hours to come, more than likely with the attitudes of professional men anywhere who have a long workday ahead of them.
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin are mortal men and yet their talents, their disciplines and their choices have placed them here, in the third week of July 1969, at a place and time unique in the cosmos.
These three men are on their way to a distant place where no man has gone before.
With them go our dreams, our desires and our good wishes, but not only for their safe passage and return.
We hope too for their efforts to signal a transformation of our common globe into a braver, bolder, better world for us all.
OK.
Done.
Everything looks good in here.
You're front-page news pretty much everywhere in the world, boys.
Oh, Neil, you'll be happy to know the Russian newspaper Pravda is calling you the tsar of the mission.
Well, the tsar is brushing his teeth right now, but I'll pass that along.
Roger that.
Among the headlines concerning Apollo this morning, there's one asking that you watch out for a lovely girl with a big rabbit.
Ancient Chinese legend says that a beautiful girl named Chang-O has been living up there for 4,000 years.
She was banished to the moon because she stole the pill for immortality from her husband.
Her companion, a large rabbit, should be standing on his hind feet under the shade of a cinnamon tree.
OK.
I'll be sure to tell them to keep an eye out for the bunny girl.
OK.
Go/no go for undocking.
- FIDO.
- Go, Flight.
- GUIDO.
RETRO.
- Go, Flight.
- BOOSTER.
TELMU.
- That's affirm, Flight.
- GNC.
- Go, Flight.
- EECOM? - Go, Flight.
- SURGEON.
- Go.
Go for undocking.
Columbia? Houston.
You are go for undocking.
Roger, Houston.
Go for undocking.
Take it easy on the lunar surface.
I hear you huffing and puffing, I'm gonna start bitching at you.
Roger that, Michael.
OK, here you go.
Probe.
Extend.
Release.
Beautiful.
Four down and locked.
Houston, the Eagle has wings.
You got a fine-looking flying machine there, Eagle, despite the fact you're upside down.
Somebody's upside down.
You guys take care, now.
For every American, for people all over the world, this has to be the proudest day of our lives.
- The greatest audience - They feel the tension in London Audiences estimated at 1 2 million The LEM began to disappear behind the moon been travelling on the far side of the moon beyond radio contact with Mission Control.
The goal for the descent orbit insertion A 30-second burn that drops the Eagle to ten miles above the lunar surface and prepares them for their final descent.
We're only moments away from a flurry of activity that will, if all goes well, find Armstrong and Aldrin safely on the moon.
Eagle, Houston.
Do you read? Eagle, this is Houston.
Eagle, Houston.
Do you read? Eagle, Houston.
Do you copy? Roger.
We copy.
Eagle, Houston.
Can we get a status on your burn? We're at good burn, Houston.
On time, no residuals.
Ten minutes to power descent.
Let's get their sun check, then go around the horn.
Eagle, Houston.
We're ready for that sun check.
Roger, Houston.
Sun check to three marks.
Noun 20 minus noun 22.
Plus 0.
19.
Plus 0.
16.
Eagle, we only copied three of the marks.
Please repeat the sun check.
Over.
Houston, Eagle.
How do you read now? Eagle, we're getting oscillations in your high gain.
Over.
Say again, Houston.
We didn't copy.
Flight, TELMU.
We've lost MISFIN.
Proctor, we've lost MISFIN.
Flight, Guidance.
I've lost data.
We keep losing 'em.
Clock's running.
I want a go/no go for power descent.
Columbia, this is Houston.
We've lost all data with Eagle.
Please have them reacquire on high gain.
Over.
Eagle, this is Columbia.
Houston would like you to reacquire on the high gain.
They've lost data with you.
Over.
Roger.
We copy.
Houston, Eagle.
How do you read me now? - You got us locked up, TELMU? - We're real weak, Flight.
Are your systems go? That's affirm.
- Guidance, you happy? - Go.
- FIDO? - We're a little low, but no problem.
- EECOM? - Go, Flight.
- GNC.
- Go.
- SURGEON.
- We're go.
CAPCOM, we are go for power descent.
Eagle, Houston.
If you read, you are go for power descent.
Roger.
Understand.
Stabilization and control circuit breakers, deca gimbal AC closed.
Deca gimbal AC closed.
- Command override off.
- Command override is off.
- Gimbal enable.
- Gimbal enable.
- Rate scale, 25.
- 25.
- Thrust translation, four jets.
- Four jets.
- Balance couple on.
- Balance couple is on.
- TCA throttle minimum.
- Throttle is at minimum.
- Throttle, auto CDR.
- Auto CDR.
- Stop button, reset.
- Stop button is reset.
- Abort, abort stage, reset.
- Abort, abort stage, reset.
Engine arm descent, seven seconds.
Yes, proceed.
Proceed.
Five, four, three, two, one, zero.
Ignition.
Throttle up.
Burn looks good.
Eagle, your burn looks good.
Rate of descent looks good.
AGS and PINGS agree.
RCS is good.
DIPS pressure is good.
Eagle, you are still looking good and coming up on three minutes, over.
We went by our three-minute point early.
We're gonna land long.
Houston, our position checks downrange show us to be a little long.
We are going to roll over and have you check our altitude.
Roger.
We copy.
Rolling over.
Houston, you're looking at Delta H.
Flight, Radar looks good.
2,000 feet, Delta H.
Roger, 2,000-foot Delta H.
Let me know when he accepts it.
- Programme alarm.
It's a 1202.
- 1202.
1202? Is that radar? No.
1202, that's in the software.
We didn't have this in the sim.
What is it? Give us a reading on 1202 programme alarm.
It's It's We have it.
It's a temporary overload.
It's not fatal.
We're OK as long as it's intermittent.
- We're go on that, Flight.
- On that alarm? If it's only intermittent, we'll be go.
- Eagle, we are go on that alarm.
- Roger.
AGS and PINGS look real close.
Give us a pitch over time, Houston.
Eagle, you are 30 seconds to P-64.
Roger.
I've got the window.
Roger.
We have got good data.
We're looking good and coming up in 30.
P-64.
OK, 5,000 feet is good.
100 feet per second is good.
- I want a go/no go on landing.
GUIDO.
- Go, Flight.
- RETRO.
BOOSTER.
- Go.
- TELMU.
- Affirm.
- GNC.
EECOM.
- Go, Flight.
- SURGEON.
- Go.
- CAPCOM, go.
- Eagle, you are go for landing.
- Go for landing.
Over.
- Roger.
Understand.
Go for landing.
3,000 feet.
- Give me an LPD.
- 47 degrees.
Pretty rocky area.
I'm going to manual.
Roger, Eagle.
58 forward.
No problem.
600 feet, down at 19.
Programme alarm 1201.
Guidance, are your systems go? Same type.
We're go, Flight.
- Go.
- We are go.
Same type.
We are go.
OK, you're pegged on horizontal velocity.
300 feet, down three and a half.
47 forward.
Slow it up.
One and a half down.
Ease her down.
- 250.
How's the fuel? - Seven per cent fuel remaining.
Down at two and a half.
19 forward.
Altitude velocity lights are on.
We lost our radar.
Three and a half down.
- 220 feet, 13 forward.
- Gonna be right over that crater.
160 feet, five and a half down.
Quantity light.
60 seconds to go/no go.
Looks like a good area here.
Take her down.
60 feet, down two and a half.
Two forward.
Two forward.
40 feet, down two and a half.
30 seconds of fuel.
- Four forward.
- Four forward.
Drifting to the right a little.
20 feet.
Picking up some dust.
I can't see it.
- Contact light.
- Shut down.
OK, engine off.
- ACA out of detent.
- Out of detent.
Auto.
- Mode control both auto.
- Both auto.
Descent engine command override off.
Engine arm off.
413 is in.
We copy you down, Eagle.
Houston, Tranquility Base here.
The Eagle has landed.
Roger, Tranquility.
We copy you on the ground.
We got a bunch of guys about to turn blue but we're breathing again.
Be advised there's lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world.
There's two up here.
And one in the command module.
Sounded great from up here.
You guys did a fantastic job.
All right, flight controllers.
Going around the horn for stay/no stay.
- All right.
FIDO.
- Stay, Flight.
- GUIDO.
- Stay.
- RETRO.
- Stay.
- TELMU.
- Stay.
- BOOSTER.
- Stay.
- GNC.
- Stay, Flight.
Houston, Tranquility.
Go, Tranquility.
Over.
Our recommendation at this point is an EVA with your concurrence, starting at about 8:00 this evening, Houston time, three hours from now.
Stand by.
Well, we'll let you think about that one.
Tranquility, Houston.
We thought about it and we'll support it.
We are go for an early EVA.
Over.
Roger.
There's something I'd like to do, if you don't mind.
I cleared it with Deke.
After all the grief Frank and the others got for reading from Genesis, it can't be specific.
Something I want to do.
OK.
Houston, Tranquility.
Over.
Tranquility, Houston.
Go ahead.
Roger.
This is the LEM pilot.
I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever or wherever they may be, to pause a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.
Over.
Roger, Tranquility Base.
"I am the vine, and you are the branches.
"Whoever remains in me, and I in him, "will bear much fruit, "for you can do nothing without me.
" You're even.
That's good.
You have plenty of room on your left.
You're a little close on the right.
Pack down a little bit.
Pack down.
That's it.
Doing fine.
You got it.
OK, Houston, I'm on the porch.
Roger, Neil.
Standing by for your TV.
OK, we're getting a picture on the TV.
OK, I just checked this.
Getting back up to that first step.
It's not even collapsed too far but it's adequate to get back up.
I'm at the foot of the ladder.
The LEM footpads are only depressed in the surface about one or two inches, although the surface appears to be very fine grain when you get close to it.
It's almost like a powder.
I'm gonna step off the LEM now.
That's one small step for man one giant leap for mankind.
OK, I'm on the top step.
I can look down over the RCU and landing gear pads.
You got three more steps, then a long one.
It's a very simple matter to hop down from one step to the next.
Yes, I found that can be very comfortable.
Walking is also very comfortable.
There, you got it.
That's a good last step.
Beautiful view.
Magnificent desolation.
Isn't that something? Magnificent sight out here.