On the Moon

Neil Armstrong           Commander

Buzz Aldrin                  Lunar Module Pilot

Dans la salle de contrôle de Houston

Bruce McCandless   CAPCOM      Link with the crew

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There ar two versions of this video : one with transcription in french and the other with transcription in english.

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EPISODE II : First Steps

This video begins when the live TV image arrives on Earth as Neil Armstrong descended the ladder of the lunar module. Then he made ​​his first step, down a camera, take some photos and collect some contingency samples. The video ends when Buzz Aldrin descended to the ground in turn. The film is also useful to show in parallel the control room of Houston and the path of the television picture and changes the receiving antenna on Earth, which explain the changes in image quality.

Are synchronized to this video:

• The image of live television and audio exchanges Earth - Moon
• The film recorded by the onboard  LM 16mm camera
• The film recorded in the control room of Houston
• The path diagram of the TV picture involving the Goldstone (GDS) antenna in the U.SA and those of Honeysuckle Creek (HSK) and Parkes in Australia.
• The audio network NET2  on which converse the operators of the previous sites with Sydney (SYD) and Houston (HTV)
• The transcript of the Earth-Moon as well as network NET2

• The heartbeats of Armstrong and Aldrin in real time
        
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