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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!bcm!aio!krakatoa!kjenks
- From: kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
- Subject: Re: What's the date on the moon? really.
- Keywords: words
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.023325.5941@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 19 Aug 1992 02:33:25 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.112550.16773@pbs.org> <6533@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> <1007@vk2bea.UUCP>
- Sender: kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov
- Organization: NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office
- Lines: 29
- Originator: kjenks@krakatoa
-
- Someone, whose name was lost in a flurry of ">>>" marks, said:
- > >> The very first word spoken from the lunar surface was in fact "Houston"!
-
- Then, it looked like it was lynnh@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM (Lynn C Hurd) who said:
- > >Shouldn't the first words from the surface of the moon have been
- > >"Contact light on...engine to off.......Houston,....etc.?
-
- In Buzz Aldrin's book, "Men From Earth," he said:
- Aldrin: "Contact light. Okay, engine stop. ACA out of detent."
- Armstrong: "Got it."
- Aldrin: "Mode controls, both auto. Descent engine command override,
- off. Engine arm off...."
- CAPCOM: "We copy you down, Eagle."
- Armstrong: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
-
- Which sounds like a dandy .sig. You may see it here for a while.
- Armstrong was the Commander, Aldrin was the Pilot. Collins was the
- "CMP" (command module pilot) in Columbia, which was on the far side of
- its orbit at 3:18 PM, Houston time, on July 20, 1969 (from Collins'
- book, "Carrying the Fire").
-
- As much as I may like this place, "Houston" was NOT the first word
- from the moon.
-
- -- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office
- kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (713) 483-4368
-
- "...back to the moon, back to the future,
- and, this time, back to stay." -- George Bush
-