What was the first word spoken from the moon?

"Holy Shit!"

Contact Light

Buzz call out on the radio

One small step for man, One giant leap for mankind? Or something like that

"Houston"

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Originally posted by k4carbon:
"Houston"

Followed by,

"The Eagle has landed"

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Originally posted by ac26:
Contact Light

Buzz call out on the radio

I'm going with this one. Contact Light indicated that the 3' long feelers on the Lunar Module legs had made contact with the ground. It was the signal to chop the power. So, when the contact light lit, they were touching the moon.

Now, they said "Houston, the Eagle has landed" AFTER they shut down the engine.

It was something like, "Hey, Buzz, can you grab me that notepad over there?"

And then Neil Armstrong snuck out ahead of Aldrin to be the first man to walk on the moon.

True story.

Since Neil Armstrong was a Purdue alumni, I suspect the real first words spoken were "suck this IU"

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Originally posted by ac26:
Contact Light

Buzz call out on the radio

I'm going with ac26!

Damn this basement smells musty........

Just kidding - had to throw that in for all the conspiracy nuts out there.

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Originally posted by JohnnyD:

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Originally posted by ac26:
Contact Light

Buzz call out on the radio

I'm going with ac26!

It was either that or "Hold my beer, and watch this"

Well Neil was a Navy guy so I am pretty sure it was a colorful metaphor.

"I'm thinking something like "No shit we made it, can you fuckin' believe it!"

Or did you mean the first documented or over the radio words.

Either that or "Sorry Buzz, rock beats scissors, sit your ass down."

ac26 is correct, "Contact" was the first word spoken from the moon.

According to NASA records, the sequence of spoken words was:
In the LEM
"Contact light, engine shutdown"

Transmitted to NASA
"Houston, the Eagle has landed"

Are we there yet?

We have a team meeting at work each week. We rotate the duty as the meeting lead. This week was my turn. I'm the oldest on the team by a good amount with the exception of one person who is only a few years younger (and he was out today). In honor of the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, I took the "Survival on the Moon" exercise for the group to try out.

This is the version I used:
https://www.humber.ca/centrefo...dfs/MoonExercise.pdf

This is the version from the NASA site with suggestions for how to present to a middle school audience:
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/166504main_Survival.pdf

Finally, a version used in Civil Air Patrol for Aerospace Education:
http://coloradowingcap.org/Por...010-05-10-133104-963

On the day of the landing, our family had been down to San Francisco to take some relatives from England sight-seeing. We were on our way back, and stopped in a park along the highway to listen to the car radio when they stepped out of the lunar module.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

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Originally posted by JohnnyD:

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Originally posted by ac26:
Contact Light

Buzz call out on the radio

I'm going with ac26!

It was either that or "Hold my beer, and watch this"

As they were living in TX at the time, I'm going with Hold my beer...

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Originally posted by SigSAC:
We have a team meeting at work each week. We rotate the duty as the meeting lead. This week was my turn. I'm the oldest on the team by a good amount with the exception of one person who is only a few years younger (and he was out today). In honor of the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, I took the "Survival on the Moon" exercise for the group to try out.

This is the version I used:
https://www.humber.ca/centrefo...dfs/MoonExercise.pdf

This is the version from the NASA site with suggestions for how to present to a middle school audience:
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/166504main_Survival.pdf

Finally, a version used in Civil Air Patrol for Aerospace Education:
http://coloradowingcap.org/Por...010-05-10-133104-963

I'm not going to fare too well. I got 51. Below average.

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Originally posted by heathtx:
ac26 is correct, "Contact" was the first word spoken from the moon.

According to NASA records, the sequence of spoken words was:
In the LEM
"Contact light, engine shutdown"

Transmitted to NASA
"Houston, the Eagle has landed"

According to the audio:

"Contact light. Okay, Engine Stop."
"Houston, uh, tranquility base here, the eagle has landed."