WEATHER Partly sunny, mild (Details on Page 8A) MONDAY, JULY 21, 1969 Neil starts to stop off ladder onto?surfac Lunar drama ?ihe words of Neil and Buzz HOUSTON (AP) Here is a partial text of the conversation between Mission Control here and Tranquillity Base, beginning as astronaut Neil Arm- strong left the landing craft Eagle to precede astro- I naut Edwin Aldrin onto the surface of the moon. Th ?r ?i ri nfs,? on . Photo?N?lplAP ereohoto of tho-moon ?ow "f i 3.. A giam? leap fer, man/(in By EDWIN G. PIPP Detroit News Aerospace Write! say, barren chunk of rock endlessly whirling in space around the green planet earth. For today, man?s footprints are on the moon, to stay. A man named Neil put them there at the climax of the greatest adventure of discovery ever undertaken. He put them there tentatively, one foot at a time, descend- ing awkwardly from a spindly space ship that looks nothing at all like a Buck Rogers crea? tion. As he did, he fulfilled a responsibility to say something for history. ?That's one small step for man,? he said. ?One giant leap for mankind.? HIS VOICE CRACKLED acr055 the void of ,space, carried by the magic of technology that put him there. The world watched on televi- 'Slorl. Nothing can ?remove that moment from his- tory?not failure in future flights, or even the perils remaining in this one. Nor even the fact that the achievement resulted from a political race between great nations. Astronauts and Edwm E. (Buzz) Aldrin,?inspired by the awesome Sight of a new world, proved that it was not necessary to send poets to the moon. ?It has a stark beauty all its own," said ?It's like much of the high desert of the United States." The National Aeronautics and Space Admin- istration s?t the exact time of first step on moon soil as 9:56:20 p.m. (Detroit time) yesterday. When Aldrin stepped on the lunar surface 20 minutes later, he sucked in? his? breath and c0mmented - ?Beautiful, beautiful, cent desolation." TRIUMPH unparalleled in history the spaceship Eagle landed on the lunar surface yesterday and. its-..two-man crew~ started their exploration of the moon. After more than two hours outSide their beautiful. Magnifi- The planets, certainly. Perhaps the stars. But wherever men go in the years ahead, the marks of their first steps w1 l remain on a ?rite HOME NEWSPAPE Races Page 4D 96th YEAR No. 333 10 CENTS Neil A. planted his white left boot on the gray lunar dust and spoke the first words of the first man to set foot on the moon: ?That?s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.? Earlier had reported the touch- down of the lunar landing craft with these words: ?Houston . . . Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.? fragile moonship, the astronauts climbed back up the ladder and sealed themselves and their priceleSS samples of moon dust and rocks in the cabin for their perilous journey home to earth. While they shared, their triumphant adven- ture, Astronaut Michael Collins orbited the moon in the command ship Columbia, waiting to take them back to earth. On the lunar surface are scientific experi- ments that can be used for years to help sctentists learn more about the moon, earth and the universe. In their ship are rocks and surface samples from the moon that Will keep seientists bu5y for years, and a sample of' the solar Wind, the effect of solar radiation in space. Standing on the moon IS an American flag. Messages from world leaders are in a small disc. MOMENTS AFTER STEPPING onto the surface gave the world its first on-the-spot report of what he found. He said: ?The surface is fme and powdery. I can pick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch. but I can see the footprints of my. boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles . "There seems to be no difficulty in movmg around, as we suspected . . . It's actually no trouble to walk around." His description was plainly heard on earth, 240,000 miles away, by some half a- billion persons who also saw him step, onto the .moon through black and white television, carried to the moon in the LM. It was almost like watching a science fic- tion movie, except that this was it . . . men on the moon. AND ALDRIN. who stepped on the moon 20 minutes later, cmiid be seen movmg around on the rock-strewn, pitted sur- face in their white space suits with the bulky life support packs on their backs. They walked With a bouncy,.springy step in the moon's gravity, which is one-sixth of earth?s. first chore was to obtain a (Concluded on Page 10A) the moon! it will end, no one can u? . The hatch opened, Aldrin talked through his maneuvers with a television camera and backpack through the Eagle's exit. Then the conver- sation began. now you?re clear . . now move it toward me. Straight down, relax a little bit. Plenty of room. Have you lined up nicely. Toward me a little bit, down. OK, now you'reclear . . You're touching the . . hinge .. . hinge? . . right a little bit. OK. that?s good . . . now l'm gonna check . . . here.? you?re not quite squared away. Go to . . That's good. Get plenty 0f-room to your left. It?s too closevinv-the, uh, other the, go right a little. Now you're even . side. am I doing? doing fine. right now you want this bag? porch. I MC?Roger, Neil: stand by Neil. a little slack. need more slack, Buzz? hold it just a minute. everything's nice and straight in here. can you pull the door open a little more? . . . l?m gonna pull it now.. . . Houston, the MESA came down, all right. MC?Stand by. GK, Neil, we can see ypu coming down the ladder now. just checlted?gettin;3 back up to that first step . . ladder didn't collapse too far, but it's adequate to get back up. it?s: pretty good little jump. I'm at the foot of the ladder, the LM foot pads,?are only depressed in the surface about uh, one or .two inches. although the surface appears to be very very fine grained as 'you get close to it. It's almost like a powder down there. It?s very fine. l'm going to step off the?! now. That's one small step for man, one ?giant leap for mankind. . The, surfaca is fine and powdery. I can pick it?up loosely with my toe. The dirt adhered in fine layers like powdered charcoal to? the, uh. to the sole and inside of my boots. I only go. oh, an eighth of an inch, but I can see loot. prints of my boots and the trends and the fine, sandy particles. . There-seems to be no? difficulty in moving around, as we suspected. It?s. even perhaps easier that the simulations of (Concluded on Page IA) . Moon landing pictures on page: 4A, 5A, 6A and Other stories on the moon landing on page: 4A, 5A, 6A, 8A, 9A, l2A and .l3A. n. . roll to,the left. OK. now you?re clear. You?re lined up on the platform. Move your left foot to the Got it. OK. Houston, I?m on the First man is on the moons walks worily at first new anti-73*? Heading home, Eagle blas By STEPHEN CAIN News Staff Writer coming home. . . Trailing a blast of flaming hot gases across their historic tracks on the moon. Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil A. and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. blasted off shortly before 1 p.m. today. Left behind was the bottom half of their Eagle space- craft, a singed reminder for future space explorers of man's first brief visit to earth's nearest neignbor. The descent stage was the platform for a. flawless lift-off, putting them in orbit to rejom astronaut Michael Collins in the mother ship. Columbia. . Today?s. Collins, the forgotten man of yesterday?s spectacular, flew the Columbia over Tranquillity Base and Eagle exactly 70 seconds before lift-off. He was in a circular orbit 69 miles high and swung the nose of his spacecraft down so he could track Eagle arching up from below. Eagle took 16 seconds to use 569 feet, and pomted west over the lunar equator. Two minutes later it was almost two miles high and speeding along at 685 miles an hour. Four minutes out and seven miles high. Eagle had more than doubled its velocity to 1,645 miles an hour as it meted out over the massive Sabine Crater. The seven-mile height was critical?~Eagle was now high ??News Photos by Critic Wellman trom WWJ-TV monitor After a few minutes, he moves away from module with case is from moon enough so that Colilns could drop down for a rescue if neces- sary. Three and a half minutes later and four miles higher Eagle established a stable orbit at 3,600 miles an hour. . . . while Luna lands MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) The unmanned Russmn Spacecraft Luna 15 apparently landed today on the moon?s Sea of Crisis. 500 miles from where the Apollo 11 lunar module landed With the American astronauts, the Jodrell Bank observatory reported. (Detailed story on Page 10A.) Kennedy is charged in fatality )?rnn Special. AP and Dispatches index Amusements 48 Movies 3C Bridge 4C NEWS Summary .. 2A Classified 5-170 Obituaries 4C Comics 213 MD Crossword 17D Spors Editorial 18A TV-Radio 15. 11A Experience 3C Vessels 4C Horoscope .. 17A Weather SA Magazine 33 Women's 1, 2C EDGARTOWN, Mass?It was the kind of an evening designed to he relaxing. A happy party, a cookout on a small island off Martha's Vineyard. A reunion of old friends, and a charce to let down after a day of sailboat racing on the open ocean. it ended in --tragedy, an automobile acci- dent, with a young woman drowned and Sena- tor Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident. The police chief of this small resort town. Dominic J. Arena, says he is satisfied there was no negligence on the part of the senator, but ?the matter of the time period after the accident . . . There is, in my opinion, a viola- tion concerning gomg from the scene, leaving the scene." The dead woman was Mary J. Kopechne, 28. of Washington, a passenger in Kennedy?s car when it skidded off a narrow bridge and landed bottom up in eight feet of salt waiter. A FORMAL COMPLAINT charging Ken- nedy With leaving the scene of an accident was filed by Arena with District Court clerk Thomas A. Teller. Arena said that an Edgartown lawyer. Richard J. McCarron, had informed the clerk he is representing Kennedy. McCarron asked for a hearing, to which Kennedy is entitled before any summons is issued. Teller set July 28 for the hearing. which be held in the Edgartown courthouse. Arena, asked if he had checked the possi- b'l-ty that the accxdent was related to drinking at the party, replied: I ?1 did not ask that questiOn of the senator There was no other physical evidence at the some that there might have been drinking involved l?m not pursuing that line at all . . . l'm still standing on the fact that there was no negligence involved." McCarron told repbrters that since he knew in advance of Arena?s intention to file the cita- (Concliided on'Page SA) ,,.atrii