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NEWS FLASHES Dlrid From Ntwiroem Of Advtrtlw-Journtl By TIphoM Dial SiWlM The Weather Montgomery Partly cloudy with hot days and mild at night with chance for afternoon or evening thundershowers. High Monday 92, low 73. (Details, Map, page 2.) 142nd year-No. 173 10c 18 Pages Montgomery, Ala. Monday Morning, July 21, 1969 (J "One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leay for Mankind comfortable.

SPACE CENTER, Houston! the Sea of Tranquillity, it in- where it would have met almost certain disaster, and landed Aldrin reported, "In general, spires us to redouble our efforts (AP) Two Americans landed on the moon and explored its time spent in the shadow four miles beyond the original landing point. surface for some two hours Sun to bring peace and tranquility to man. "All the people on earth are doesn't seem to have any thermal effects inside the suit. day, planting the first human footprints in its dusty soil. They There is a tendency to feel cooler in the shadow than out of the surely one in their pride of what you have done, and one in their raised their nation's flag and It was a costly maneuver.

It cut the available fuel short. When it landed Eagle had barely 49 seconds worth of hovering rocket fuel left, less than half of the 114 seconds worth it was on: prayers that you will return talked to their President earth 240,000 miles away. sun." The sun was a problem for vi safely. Both civilian Neil Alden Arm Aldrin replied, "Thank you Mr. President.

It is a privilege to represent the people of all sion. "I have so much glare from the sun off the visor that when I go into shadow, it takes strong and Air Force Col. Ed win E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. re ported they were back in their peaceable nations." Armstrong supposed to have.

"The auto targeting was taking us right into a football field sized crater with a large number of big boulders and rocks," Anmstrona said. "And it re- spacecraft at 1:11 a.m. EDTjadded his thanks, a while for my eyes to adjust," Aldrin said. The dust, too, was unusual. Armstrong's steps were cau Monday.

"The natcn is ciosea and locked," Armstrong report Neil Armstrong Climbs Down Ladder From Lunar Module tious at first. He almost "The color of my boot has com ed pletely disappeared into, I quired us to fly manually over "The surface is fine and pow- don't know how to describe it the rock field to find a reasona Millions on their home planet) watched on television as the dered, like powdered charcoal kind of cocoa has covered my to the soles of the foot," he said "I can see my footprints of my boots in the fine sandy particles." Armstrong read from good area." They landed Just north of the moon's equator. In the original landing site, Armstrong 6aid there were "extremely rough craters and a large number of rocks. Many of them were larg pair saluted their flag and scoured the rocky, rugged surface. The first to step on the moon was Armstrong, 38, of Wapa-koneta, Ohio.

His foot touched the surface at 10:56 p.m. EDT and he remained out for two hours and 14 minutes. boot." In spite of the dust they raised as their rocket flame churned the surface from as high as 40 feet, there was no discernible crater below the descent engine, they reported- The rocks of the moon seemed to have a powdery surface. "I the plaque on the side of the spacecraft that had brought them to the surface. In a steady voice, he said, "Here man first set foot on the moon, July, 1969.

We came in peace for all man His first words standing oni kind." Durnig the moments he say the rocks are rather slippery," Aldrin reported. "T'le powdery surface fills up all the very little fine pores and you tend to slide over it very easi walked alone, Armstrong's voice was all that was heard from the lunar surface. er than 10 feet." Immediately after Eagle touched down, mission control dropped the radio call sign Eagle and referred to the Americans on the moon as Tranquillity Base. The first hour was full of descriptions of sights no one had ever seen before. "From the surface," Aldrin reported, "we could not see any stars out of the window.

But out ly." He appeared phosphorescent in the blinding sunlight. He He also found some strange the moon were, "That one small step for man, a giant leap for mankind." Twenty minutes after he stepped down, Aldrin followed. "Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful," he said. "A magnificent desolation." He remained out for one hour and 44 minutes. Their spacecraft Eagle landed on the moon at 4:18 p.m., and they were out of it and on the surface some six hours later.

At the end, mission control effects on balance. "You have to be careful you're leaning in the direction you want to 30," he said. walked carefully at first in the gravity of the moon, only one-sixth as strong as on earth. Then he tried wide gazelle-like leaps. of the overhead hatch, I'm look "You have to cross your foot ing at the earth, big, round and Aldrin tried a kind of kanga over to stay under where your beautiful." roo-hop, but found it unsatisfac center of mass is," Armstrong added.

tory. "The so-called kangaroo With their awkward gloves, hop doesn't seem to work as Just after landing, mission control called up, "Be advised there are lots of smiling faces well as the more conventional they appeared to have some granted Uiem extra time on the pace," he said. "It would get here and all around the world." trouble setting up the flag on its eight-foot pole. A rod along the lunar surface. Armstrong was given 15 extra minutes, Aldrin rather tiring after several upper edge held it out taut in 12, the airless, windless world of In the lesser gravity of the Even while they were on the moon, each of the men, 165- lunar surface, Lick Observatory pounders on Earth, weighed something over 25 pounds on the moon.

in southern California sent a laser light beam to the moon, aiming at the small mirror the astronauts had installed on the surface. They got a reflection Armstrong began the rock "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. "Tranquillity 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," Arm picking on the lunar surface Aldrin joined him using a small back on earth. There were humorous mo-i scoop to put lunar sou in a plastic bag. ments in the awkward climbing the moon. It was set up at 11:42 p.m.

They worked hard setting up the experiments. They set up a panel to measure the solar wind, the sub-atomic bits and pieces blown out from the sun. It was to return to earth with them for analysis. They also set up a seismometer to sutdy the trembles, if any, in the lunar crust, and determine its structure. They also set up a laser mirror which would reflect light beams back to earth, helping scientists measure the distance to the moon, to an accuracy of six inches.

out and in of the spacecraft, When Aldrin backed out of he AP Wlrephotn Above them, invisible and nearly ignored, was Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Collins, 38, keeping his lonely patrol around the moon for the moment when his companions blast-off and re Edwin Aldrin Jr. Joins Armstrong on Surface of Moon strong said. "We see some turn to him for the trip back 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. home. Collins said he saw a Br small white object on the moon, but didn't think it was the hatch, he said he was "making sure not to lock it on the way out." Armstrong, on the surface, laughed. "A pretty good thought," he said.

Once back in the spaceship they began immediately to re-pressurize the cabin with oxygen- They stowed the samples of rocks and soil. "We've got about 20 pounds of carefully selected, if not documented samples," Armstrong said, referring to the contents of spacecraft. It was in the wrong Small Step, Eagle Landed Gain Fame place- Ch Hearts Dance Back in Houston, where the nearly half-moon rode the sky in its zenith, Mrs. Jan Armstrong watched her husband on televi sion. "I can't believe it is really LONDON (AP)-Crowds let citizens know of the safe dous superiority." Houston, screamed joyously in Trafalgar happening," she said.

SPACE CENTER, landing. Queen Elizabeth II and her one of two boxes filled with lunar material. Armstrong surveyed the (AP) That's one small step As Chileans danced in the Square, people danced in Chile, If the moon walk was thrilling, the dangerous descent and landing were hardly less. "Houston," Armstrong called out after the lunar lander settled on the moons' surface. He hesitated almost two seconds-Then he added, "Tranquillity Base here.

The Eagle has landed." "Fantastic," called down Collins from his orbiting command ship, Columbia. As Eagle neared the surface of the moon, Armstrong saw that the computerized automatic pilot was sending the fragile ship toward a field scattered family watched the moon landing at Windsor Castle, west of "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 horizon could be as much as two miles away. When he heard his fellow crewmen on the moon describing 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.

a Russian yelled, "Hooray." Al streets of Santiago, an elevator The minutes behind were un rocky, rugged scene around him. "It has a stark beauty all for man, one giant leap for mankind," were Neil Armstrong's first words as he London. boy proclaimed: "Thank God most everyone on earth was forgettable for them, and for the Soviet news media reported its own," he said. It differ world. somehow touched by man's arrival on the moon.

the module landed straight side up. Many people rushed out of the U.S. moon landing briefly ent. But it's very pretty out steroed onto the moon's sur President Nixon's voice came Santiago restaurants to look at Pope Paul VI praised Ameri here." face. to the ears of the astronauts on the moon from the Oval Room ca's three astronauts as "con and without fanfare.

Regular Moscow television and radio programs were not interrupted. the moon," forgetting it was They took pictures of each midafternoon and the moon querors of the moon" minutes at the White House. other, and Aldrin shot views of the spacecraft against the lunar couldn't be seen. after the Eagle spacecraft The special news station May- "This has to be the most his It was Armstrong, the command pilot, who earlier summed the touch down of the lunar module with this message: "Houston Tranquillity touched down on the lunar sur A French pipe maker in the ak Lighthouse carried the background. "There were many large boul- toric telephone call ever made," he said.

"I just can't tell you Jura Mountains outside Paris with rocks and boulders in the ders and craters there." In a world where tempera face. He said man faces "the expanse of endless space and a first report at 4:30 p.m. EDT. It said only that the space module began making three pipes one tures vary some 500 degrees, projected landing site on the moon's Sea of Tranquillity. "When in doubt," Collins said, "land long." (Base here.

The Eagle nas land ed." had touched down. new destiny." each for the three Apollo 11 from 243 degrees above zero in how proud I am. Because of what you have done the heavens have become part of man's Soviet media did not drama crewmen. sunlight, to 279 below in shadow, He grabbed control of his Other famous first words "So we did," Armstrong re- The official Soviet news agency In Geneva, the Swiss were tize the landing. Reports of the the men in the spacesuits felt ship, sent it clear of the area plied.

world. As you talk to us from through history: Tass put out reports in both its restrained and some strolled in touchdown were buried in soviet television and radio newscasts Russian and English services the streets after a hot summer Charles Lindbergh, on in Paris May 21, 1927, after v-l: 1 ii .1 They were two paragraphs long lul 1- omer news 01 me aay vm nisi sum in! individual Muscovites and were presented without the bells and special markings used day rather than watch But in London a woman with a baby in her arms screamed: "Thank God they Atlantic: cheered and expressed congrat "I'm Charles Lindbergh." ulations to Americans in the Soviet capital. "Hooray," one for big stories. Many Soviet citizens undoubt made it." Sir Henry Morton Stanley, oni meeting Dr. David Livingstone yelled.

"It's a great day," At Jodrell Bank Observatory, where British astronomers have edly heard of the U.S. success by listening to Western news shouted another. in Ujiji, central Africa, 10, 1871: In the war-torn Middle East, Livingstone I pre been tracking both Apollo and the Soviet unmanned probe Luna 15, officials broke into ap Arab radio stations interrupted their bulletins of a major air sume?" Gen. nouelas MacArthur. ar plause.

battle over the Suez Canal to acclaim the event and praise Ed riving in Australia March 24, Britain's leading astronomer, 1942, from Corregidor and the Sir Bernard Lovell, said: Advertiser Today Philippines: "I shall return." "The moment of touchdown was one of the moments of win Aldrin and Neil Armstrong for "making history." One Yugoslav teen-ager said: "They have stolen the romance greatest drama in the history of man out of the moon and it will never be the same again. Now the moon is real, and lovers won't have it for themselves alone any "The success of this part of the enterprise opens the most Samuel F.B. Morse, in trans- mitting the first long distance message over the first telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore, May 24, 1844: "What hath God wrought?" Adm. Richard E. Byrd, as tiavieator with Flovd Bennett in enormous opportunities for fu more.

ture exploration of the uni I it. verse." 1 In the middle of a war broadcast from Beirut the announcer said: "Ladies and gentlemen. first airplane flight over North if Pole, May 9, 1926: The moon is now within man's i "The dream of a lifetime hasi grasp." Then Feirouz. one of Page Amusements .....8 Business Review 9 Classified Comics .......13 Crossword 3 Editorial 4 Farm 18 Legals ........14 News Quiz ,...3 Obituaries 5, 14 Society Sports 11,12 TV Logs 8 Weather Map i W(WM I'. It'll 'V faBHBBF Lovell, director of Jodrell Bank, added: "It remains hard to comprehend the superb nature of the American technological and engineering achievements in this landing.

"Those of us who haVe watched the development of the space program will wish to con at last been realized. 1 the Middle East's top singers, Byrd, returning from first began crooning "Oh Moon I am flight over Soutn me Nov. zu, with you." 1929, in his journal: Poles jammed the lobby of the "Well, it's done. We have seen U.S. Embassy in Warsaw while the Pole and the American flag a crowd of hundreds applauded has hppn advanced to the South outside.

In Guavarmil F.pnqrW vey our heartfelt congratula tions to the Americans on this AP WlraptxXo Armstrong and Aldrin Plant American Flag on Moon Lunar Module in Background Pole." I firetrucks blasted their horns to: demonstration of their tremen.