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rates Partly Cloudy Final Edition Ninety-Eighth Year as a Daily and Sunday Newspaper Established as a Weekly in 1839 Shrevoport, Monday, July 21. 1969 131 Year Vol. 98 No. 236 Telephone 424-0373 Ten Cents Armstrong Takes History's First Walk on the Moon Six Honrs After Ship Dives Down to Dusty Landing; 'One Small Step for Man, Giant Leap for Mankind' i 'It's Different, But It's Very Pretty Out Here' It. was fairly easy, Aldrin reported.

He said he got his suit dirty. The camera and the micro-phone picked up Armstrong reading the plaque on the side of their spacecraft: By JOHN BARBOUR SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Man came to the moon and walked its dead surface Sunday, July 20, 1969. Two men, wearing American flags sewn to their left shoulders, landed on the Sea of Tranquility at 3:18 p.m. CDT. Six hours later, both stepped to the lunar surface.

The first was Neil Alden Armstrong, 38. of Wapak-oneta, Ohio, lie set foot on the moon's alien soil at 9:56 p.m. His first words were, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin 39, of Montclair, N.J., followed at 10:16 p.m. He said, "Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

A magnificient desolation." Armstrong stepped cautiously, almost shuffling at first. "The surface is fine and powdered, like powdered charcoal to the soles of my foot he said. "I can see my footprints of my boot in the fine particles." He stepped first onto one of the four saucer-like footpads of his spacecraft. Then the moon. He was in the bitter cold of lunar shadows as the camera caught the sight of his left foot, size 9'2, pressing into the lunar soil.

Armstrong said the spacecraft's footpads had pressed only an inch or two into the dusty soil. His foot sank only a "small fraction about an eighth of an inch" into it, he said. His first steps were cautious in the one-sixth gravity of the moon. But he quickly reported, "There is no trouble to walk around." Bv HARRY F. ROSENTHAL SPACE CENTER, Houston AP Thev kept the whole; world waiting while they dressed to go out, but once! there, the whole world saw Neil! Armstrong's "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Never before had so many been eyewitnesses to such high adventure: Armstrong's white boot coming down a ladder.

'It's different, but it's very pretty out here, Armstrong said as his eye roamed a vista a human eye had never held the moon. The picture was like a nicke lodeon of grandma's time, starkly black and white, somewhat jerky, hard to see. Like a 1929s movie, but with real lite, breath-taking drama. But it was man first stepping down to the moon. The whole world watched as Armstrong guided his companion, Edwin Aldrin, down that historic ladder, seeing Aldrin's foot tentatively seek that last step.

"It a very simple matter to hop down from one step to the next, said Coach Armstrong. "It's very comfortable, you've got three mre steps and then a lone one." And the world saw, and heard Aldrin breathing hard from the unusual exertion go down that last step, and then, for practice, liap up again. "That's a good step," said Aldrin. "Yeah, a three footer," Arm strong said. "Beautiful, Aldrin added.

"Isn't that something." Aldrin reached down. I 1, if, Surface of the Moon for the 5 ft Armstrong Steps on the Immediately after Eagle touched down, mission control dropped the radio call sign Eagle and referred to the Ameri 'You're Looking Great YouVe Go for Landing' "Here man first set foot on the moon, July 1969. "We cam in peace for all mankind." And the electronic eye, 240,000 miles away, picked up the dawning light on the lunar sur face, looking much like a glacial sea. And the camera was held by man. And it showed their space craft.

Eagle, silhouetted against the curving horizon. "I want to know if you can see an angular rock in the fore ground," said Armstrong, and it was interesting. They looked like the moon voyagers in every science fiction movie ever made, only this time it was for real. In their white suits and square backpacks, they moved around their weird-looking ship. ghost-like figures hopping like aged kangaroos in a series of small leaps.

But in the moon's one-sixth gravity, steps carried them far. It was 11:42 p. m. EDT when two Americans on the moon floodlighted by the sun, stretched out the Stars and Stripes on the moon. One stepped back and raised a gloved hand in salute.

And still later, teh President of the United States said to them, "All the people on earth are surely one in their pride of what you have done," and they said "Thank you very much." And the whole world watched. looking good. Eagle: Altitude lights out. Got the earth right out our front window. MC: You're looking great, Eagle, you're looking great.

You're go for landing. Eagle: Roger, understand. Go for landing, 3,000 feet 2,000 feet Okay, looks like it's holding. MC: Roger. We've got good data.

Y'ou're looking great at 8 minutes Eagle looking great, you're go. Eagle: 540 feet 400 feet coming down nicely 200 feet 100 feet 75 feet, still looking good. Drifting to the right a little. Okay. Engines stopped.

MC: We copy you down, Eagle. Eagle: Houston, uh. Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. ROGERS TO RELAX HONG KONG (UPD Secretary of State William P.

Rogers will arrive here Aug. 3 for a two-day "rest" after visiting several southeast Asia nations with President Nixon, U.S. Consul General Edwin Martin said Sunday. hrrofport Itmrg was not a typographical error. it is an interesting coincidence two astronauts aboard the Lunar Module (LEM) had safely landed in the "Sea of Tranquility" on the moon.

And a historic "Moonday" it is, despite the fact that the astronauts beat their schedule and stepped onto the moon's surface on Sunday. (More Stroller on Page 14-A) Ind ex 4 4 I I Armstrong was not visible to the third Apollo 11 astronaut. Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Collins locked in a lonely patrolling orbit in the command ship Columbia, some 69 miles above them.

it ha a siark hpautv all its own," Armstrong said. "It's different. But it's very pretty out here." The television camera on the side of the Eagle was on him constantly. When first he emerged from the spacecraft, slowly, cautious' ly. backing out, the world wait ed, and waited.

He took repeated instructions from Aldrin, "Plenty of room to your left." "How am I doing?" he asked "You're doing fine," he was an swered. Then he told mission control. "Okay. I'm on the porch." It was 10:51 p.m. After he tripped the television camera, the picture of his foot swinging, tentatively groping for the ladder rungs, could be seen clearly.

Minutes later as he scouted the surface for rocks and soil samples he appeared phosphorescent in the sunlight, his white suit blinding. His movements were sort of gross, abnormal leaps, almost like a slow-motion kangaroo. Repeatedly he returned to the spacecraft to perform his many duties. Eagle landed on the moon at 3:18 p.m. CDT while Michael Collins in the mother ship that brought them continued to girdle the moon awaiting their reunion 22 hours later.

"Houston," Armstrong's voice called out in the first human communication from the moon. "Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." "Fantastic," said Collins on his lonely orbital perch some 69 miles above. Later Aldrin sent a message "to ask every person listening, wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way." The events that brought them here were already and the hazards known. As Eagle neared the surface of the moon, Armstrong saw that the computerized automatic pilot was sending the fragile ship toward a field scattered with rocks and boulders in the projected landing site on the moon's Sea of Transuility.

He grabbed control of his ship, sent it clear of the area where it would have met almost certain disaster, and landed four miles beyond the original landing point. Costly Maneuver It was a costly maneuver. It cut the available fuel short. When it landed Eagle had barely 49 seconds w'orth of hovering rocket fuel left, less than half of the 114 seconds worth it was supposed to have. 1 lie Idliuidil Ull W1C liimin wa.ii SPACE CENTER.

Houston (AP) "Eagle, this is Columbia they just gave you a 'go' for powered descent." With those words of Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins alone in the mother ship called Columbia the drama of man's descent to a moon landing be gan unfolding. "Current altitude about 46,000 feet," reported mission control describing the progress of Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin in the landing craft dubbed Eagle. "Everything's looking good here." Eagle: Our position check downrange shows us to be a little off. MC: You are go to continue power descent. It's looking good.

Everything's looking good here, over. Eagle: Copy. MC: Two minutes 20 seconds, everything looking good. Eagle: I'm getting a little fluctuation in MC: Looking good. Eagle: Shows us to be a little long.

MC: You're go to continue power descent, you're go to con tinue power descent. You're Stroller Today is Moonday. No, that cans on Uie moon as Transuili- ty Base. I The first hour was full ot de senpuons oi signis no one naa ever seen before "From the surface," Aldrin reported, "we could not see any stars out of the window. But out of the overhead hatch, I'm look ing at the earth, big, round and beautiful.

Just alter landing, mission control called up, "Be advised there are lots of smiling faces here and all around the world." "There are two up here also," Armstrong beamed back "Don't forget the third one up here, added Collins from the orbiting command ship. Then he added his compliments. "Tranquility Base, you guys did a fantastic job," he said. "Just keep that orbiting base up there for us," said Armstrong on the moon. "We are in a relatively smooth plain with many craters five to 50 feet in size," Armstrong said.

"We see some ridges. And there are literally thousands of little one and two-foot craters. We see some angular blocks some feet in front of us, about two-to-three feet in size. "There's a hill in view on the ground track ahead of us. It's difficult to estimate, but it might be one-half mile or a mile away." Normally, the lunar hor izon could be as much as two miles away.

When he heard his fellow crewmen on the moon describ ing the scene around them, Col lins interrupted to say, "Sounds like it looks better than it did yesterday. It looked rough as a cob then." "The targeted area was very rough," Armstrong told him. "There were many large boulders and craters there." "When in doubt," Collins said, "land long." Heart Speed Up "So we did," Armstrong replied. When they began to descend to the moon, Armstrong's heart was beating at 110 throbs a minute. When they touched on the moon's surface it had boosted to 156.

Less than 45 minutes later it had calmed to 90, about 20 beats a minute above normal. SJiglilly Cooler Day Is Forecast Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with scattered showers and thun-dershowers and highs mostly in the 80s to low 90s were expected in the Ark-La-Tex today through tomorrow. Only East Texas has highs forecast in the upper 90s, according to the weather bureau's forecasts. Alexandria, 94 to 74 in Elj Dorado, 90 to 74 in Lufkin and 94 to 75 in Shreveport. The weather map and details may be found on page 8-B today.

(AP Wirephoto) First Time hundred feet in front of us that are probably two feet in size and have angular edges. There is a hill in view just about on the ground track ahead of us. Difficult to estimate but might be a half a mile or a mile. EAGLE: The guys that said we wouldn't be able to tell precisely where we are are the winners today. We were a little busy worrying about program alarms and things like that in the part of the descent where we would normally be picking out our landing spot.

And aside 'from a good look at several of the craters we came over in the final descent, I haven't been able to pick out the things on the horizon as a reference as yet. MC: Right. Tranquility, no sweat. We'll figure it out. EAGLE (Armstrong, about two hours after landing): Our recommendation at this point is planning EVA moonwalk) with your concurrence starting at about 8 o'clock this evening Houston time.

That is about three hours from now. MC: Stand by. Times Radio KWKH 1130 on jour Dial Astronaut Neil Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil 3 rirsi SPACE CENTER. Houston (AP) "Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Thus astronaut Neil Armstrong, seated in a landing craft named Eagle beside his crewmate, Edwin Aldrin, began the first conversation between earth and the moon.

Here are excerpts: MISSION CONTROL: Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing gain. Thanks a lot." EAGLE (Armstrong): Thank you.

That may have seemed like a very long final phase. The auto targeting was taking us right into a football field size, uh. football field size crater. There's a large number of big boulders and rocks for about one or two crater dia neters around it. And it required us to plunk down in PM5 'non-automatic flight) and fly in manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.

We'll get to the details of what's around here but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape, angularity, granularity, and every variety of rock you could find. The colors, well, it varies pretty much de- 1 4. 1 4 Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Plant the American Flag on the Moon's Surface om the Moon Voices The name of the second day of the week was sacred to the moon in pagan times and it is from the Anglo-Saxon word "monandaes" that the name was derived. It occurred to STROLLER that that man's first step on the moon pending on how you're looking relative to them.

There doesn't appear to be too much of a general color at all; however, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders, of which there are quite a few in the near area, it looks a.s though they're going to have some interesting colors to them. Chalky Gray EAGLE Aldrin I'd say the color of the local surface is, very comparable to that we observed from orbit at this sun angle, about 10 degrees sun angle, or that nature. It's pretty much without color. It's gray, and it's very white, chalky gray as you look into the zero phase line and it's considerably darker gray more like ash, ashen gray as you look out 90 degrees to the sun. Some of the surface rocks in close here that have been fractured or disturbed by the rocket engine are coated with this light gray on the outside, but where they've Today's Chuckle There's nothing wrong with teen-agers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

been broken they display a dark, very dark gray interior. ASTRONAUT MICHAEL COLLINS alone in the mother ship called Columbia: Sounds like it looks a lot better than it did yesterday at that very low sun angle. It looked rough as a cob. EAGLE: It was really rough, Mike, over the targeted landing area. It was extremely rough cratered and large numbers of rocks that were probably some many larger than 5 or 10 feet in size.

But we did. EAGLE (Armstrong': You might be interested to know that I don't think we notice any difficulty at all in adapting to 1-fiG (one-sixth of earth's gravity). It seems immediately natural to move in this environment. MSC: Roger, Tranquility, we copy, over. EAGLE (Armstrong1: Thre is a relatively level plain cratered with a fairly large number of craters of the five to 50 foot variety and some ridges, small 20.

30 feet high, I would guess. And literally thousands of little one and two-foot craters around the area. We see some angular blocks several was scheduled by NASA officials to be made on Monday the day assigned to the protection ol the moon deity by ancient people. Romans called the day "lunae dies" and the Anglo-Saxon word "monandaeg" is a translation from the Latin, according to Encyclopedia Americana. Luna is the Latin word for moon from which the names for the second day of the week now used in modern Romance languages are directly derived.

In French. Monday is "lundi." Italians call it "lunedi" and in Spanish it is "lunes." Americans are certainly a long way from worshiping a moon deity, but a great deal of reverent awe accompanied the announcement yesterday that the the fruition of a national goal: Louisiana has scattered show-declared bv the late President i ers and thundershowers and John F. Kennedy. The fulfill- h'ghs from 85 to 92 expected, ment cost $24 billion. Considerable cloudiness and "The auto targeting was tak-1 widely scattered thundershowers ing us right into a football field are due in Arkansas, where sized crater with a large num-n'Shs are due to be in the 80s her of big boulders and rocks," and 90s today.

Armstrong said. "And it re-! East Texas has hot and humid quired us to fly manually over weather with highs due to be the rock field to find a reasona- from 94 to 99. bly good area." Temperatures in the Ark-La- Thev landed just north of the Tex yesterday ranged from 89 to moon's ennator. In thp orisinali'2 with .18 of an inch of rain in Amusements 4B Classified 5-9C Comics 4C Editorials fr News Disest 2A Sports 1-3C. 5C TV-Radio 6B Weather rb Weather Map 8B landing site, Armstrong said there were "extremely rough craters and a large number of rocks.

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