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In) v-wf rm-' 0y-i (0)i3 iOJfQi (Qj (e si) i 4 VP' 1 E'D vi La eLL iLj ItMsil WHilg also a great day for the beach see page A-7 TJofl Honolili Adver aser' mnriAir MONDAY, JULY 21, 1963 I 1 1 i i 1 M- .0 Armstrong takes controls sf err a njrymg life-support packs could be discerned. In almost no time Armstrong was moving around the surface rapidly, adapting quickly to the lunar environment. At 11:15 Aldrin backed out of the lander on his hands and knees, crawled across the porch, and came down the ladder to the surface while Armstrong stood nearby giving him advice on the descent. After pausing to take pictures of the moon, the spacecraft commander went to work on his first major assignment, gathering a contingency sample of lunar soil. This is a "quick grab" of sample material, about two pounds, retrieved with a butterfly net type of device.

THE CONTINGENCY sample was planned to assure that at least some lunar material would be brought back to earth if for any reason the astronauts had to launch from the moon in an emergency. At one point he had penetrated the surface 6 to 8 inches with the sampler and told Mission Control, "I'm sure I could push it in further." Aldrin was down on the surface of the moon at 11:16 p.m: with an athletic drop of what appeared to be about 3 Advertiser Photo by Y. Ishii from KHVH-TV President Nixon talks directly to Armstrong and Colonel Aldrin (saluting), on moon, with flag they planted between the two astronauts, and ''Eagle'' in background. Americans mostly just proud 6a 'mreat day to be alive 5 By MARVIN MILES AND RUDY ABRAMSON Los Angeles Times Service HOUSTON U.S. astronauts stepped onto the surface of the moon yesterday and explored its bleak, foreboding crust in man's first visit to another celestial body.

Apollo 11 commander Neil A. Armstrong climbed slowly down the ladder from the spaceship Eagle, and became the first man to set foot on the lunar surface. 1 Six hours and 38 minutes earlier, Armstrong had averted possible disaster by taking full manual control of the vehicle on landing, selecting a safe spot for man's first landing on the moan. Two men opened the new frontier in spectacular fashion. And after exploring the surface of the moon for two hours and 11 minutes, the astronauts re-entered their lunar module to await liftoff scheduled for 1:53 p.m.

EDT (7:53 a.m. Hawaii time) today. MUCH OF THE civilized world watched and listened as Armstrong and his fellow explorer Edwin E. Aldrin who followed him down the steps half an hour later collected rocks which may reveal the oldest secrets of the solar system. Not until several minutes after man's first landing on the moon did the world realize how terrifying the last moments of the descent from space had been.

As the landing ship leveled out over the tortured face of the moon, Armstrong had to take control away from its computer to avoid going down into an ugly boulder-strewn crater where it could have easily crashed. Several minutes after the historic touchdown, Armstrong told Mission Control matter-of-factly: "The auto-targeting was taking us right into a football field-sized crater with a huge number of thick boulders and rocks for about one or two diameters around it. "It required us to fly manually over the rock fields to find a reasonably good area." Neither Armstrong nor Aldrin so much as mentioned the scary situation as they made their final descent, calling out their speed and altitude as they went down. MAN FIRST ARRIVED on the moon in the southwestern part of a flat, sprawling expanse called the Sea of Tranquility. There, the sun was just rising over the landing site, casting long, dark shadows which helped the pilots find the smooth place to set down.

Orbiting the moon in Apollo command ship Columbia at a height of 60 miles, fellow astronaut Michael Collins listened to the conversations between the descending landing vehicle and earth. Several times, when there were momentary interruptions in communications, Collins relayed instructions from Houston to Armstrong and Aldrin on the way down. As Armstrong swung his left boot to the surface of the moon at 10:56 p.m. EDT (4:56 p.m. Hawaii time), he said to the millions of televiewers watching spellbound across the chasm of space: "One small step for man, but one great leap for mankind." He said the surface "appears fine-grained, almost like a powder.

I can kick it up lobsely with my toes. I only go in maybe an eighth of an inch." ARMSTRONG SAID the lunar module's round footpads penetrated the surface only 1 to 2 inches in the landing on the Sea of Tranquility. He noted that he was ready to bring the still camera down from the cabin and added that he could see everything clearly including Aldrin, who remained in the spacecraft cabin. At first the black-and-white pictures were silhouettes, but then as Armstrong moved away from the ladder his bulky kind. It's a great day to be team participating in an in-ternational track meet alive." In Los Angeles, members of a Russian track and field cheered, clapped each other on the back, and congratulat- see editorial 'Not In Our Stars on page A-14 feet.

He then practiced several jumps to determine the effect of the moon's gravity on his balance and coordination. Mission Control here asked Armstrong if he foresaw any difficulty transferring equipment back and forth between the lunar module's cabin in the top stage of the spacecraft. His reply was: "Negative." As soon as Aldrin was on the surface, both men could be seen on television as they worked near the ladder on the lander's forward leg. ONE OF THE FIRST tasks of the two men, after Armstrong gathered the contingency sample and stowed it in a bag in his spacesuit pocket, was to make a cursory examination of the spacecraft Eagle, particularly its landing legs and shocks. He had some trouble in stowing the sample because the suit, bulky with many layers of material and a pressurization of 3.5 pounds per square inch, was stiff and he could not tell if the pocket was He had to ask for Aldrin's assistance.

Aldrin's first comments after reaching the surface was that the rocks felt quite "slippery." Both astronauts wore their heavy gold sunshields pulled down over their fishbowl helmets, and their faces could not be discerned. In no time it seemed that both men were acclimated entirely to the lunar environment, as they moved with ease, flung their arms and legs, and jumped as if in happiness but actually in tests of mobility. At one juncture Aldrin reported, "I was about to lose my balance in one direction, but recovery is quite naturaL" Early in the moon walk there was not too much description of the landing scene itself except Armstrong's note: "It's different, but beautiful." As Armstrong came down the ladder he pulled a D-ring, or lanyard, that opened an equipment bay in the lower stage of the spacecraft which exposed the camera that took his picture as he descended. At 11:50 p.m. President Nixon called from the Oval Room of the White House and had a telephone conversation with Armstrong.

TnE TOUGHEST PART of the amazing drama was the two-hour preparation period in which the Eagle crewmen helped each other don and test their complex extravehicular mobility units. These autopressure suits encased the astronauts during See Walk on A-4, CoL 7 today with Apollo 11 v. ed Americans around them at Armstrong's moment. IT WAS A long and wonderful day in America and, as Mrs. Sally Talbert of Columbus, Ohio, put it: "My husband had tears in his eyes when they landed." The day man came to the moon was a warm, lazy day in much of the United States a typical Sunday in July with one tremendous difference, the exhilaration of knowing that two Americans had gone where no man had ever set foot before.

There was a holiday air in the nation. President Nixon's call for a national day of participation meant millions of Americans wouldn't have to show up for work today. Even if they came in late, red-eyed and yawning from a night of staring at the television set, they could be pretty See Salute on A-4, Col. 1 By DAVID SMOTHERS UPI Senior Editor America held its breath and tried to believe its eyes during the proud and incredible hours of Sunday and Sunday night. It was a day of national vigil, one in which every American and any other member of mankind within sight of a television set joined Neil A.

Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin in spirit on the moon. "Unbelievable!" a soldier yelled as he stood in the almost deserted Logan International Airport at Boston and watched Armstrong set foot on the moon. AT NEW YORK'S Central Park, where more than gathered in the rain to watch man's first moments on the moon, a policeman said to no one in particular, "It's a great day for man- All times Hawaii Time 7:53 a.m. Eagle engine fires, lifting ascent section off the mcon (descent section will remain on moon).

For next four hours, Armstrong and Aldrin will fly Eagle into intermediate orbit and then maneuver for rendezvous with Columbia. 11:30 a.m. Eagle and Columbia dock. Aldrin, Armstrong rejoin Collins in Columbia. 3:23 p.m.

Eagle is jettisoned in moon orbit. 6:55 p.m. Astronauts fire Columbia's engines to begin return trip to earth. on Isle TV On all three stations KHON (2), KHVH (4), KGMB (9) if pool telecast is available, of which there is some doubt: 7:05 "to 8:05 a.m. Eagle blasts off from moon.

9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Replay on KHON (2) of Sunday's moon walk. ff ere more suace inside FACTORY REBATE CLEARANCE 517 GOUGJUIS, LlOriTEEDS, MARQUIS' MUST BE SOLD BY SEPTEMBER 20th Additional wire service reports and illustrations on man's first voyage to another heavenly body Pages A-1A, A-1B, A-3, A-4. Hawaii reaction C-6, C-7, C-8.

Editorial, "Not in Our Stars" A-14. Harry Lyons Cartoon A-14. Holiday magazine's "Place of the Month" A-14. Special Section (B): "Man's Footprints on the B-l Eagle's lunar landing and blueprint of work to be done. B-2 Genesis of $24 billion project.

B-3 Heroes 3: a new look at Apollo ll's crew. B-4, 5 Off to the moon, 250,000 miles away. B-6 Going home, recovery and isolation. vB-7 And tomorrow, what's in store? B-8 Illustrated 15 giant steps of lunar roundtrip. 1E39 COUGAR HARDTOP nib Stk 5737 Plus freight, tax, license Because of expanded coverage of the historic space shot, The Advertiser was forced to eliminate the Poi Bowl's two pages, including the comics.

They will be resumed in tomorrow's newspaper. The Horoscope is on page D-5. 1l 2450 S. BERETANIA ST. HONOLULU, HAWAII TELEPHONE 9415217 Advertiser Photo by Y.

Ishii from KHVH-TV Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin stand on lunar surface at base of Eagle's ladder..