At 109:07 GET, 22:39 EDT, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin - clad in their A7B spacesuits with the Portable Life Support Systems (PLSS) - finished the depressurization of Eagle and swung the front hatch open.
109:19:16 (CDR): "Okay. Houston. I'm on the porch." (Armstrong is at the top of the ladder that will lead him to the surface)
109:22:00 (CAPCOM): "We're getting a picture on the TV."
109:22:48 (CAPCOM): "Okay. Neil, we can see you coming down the ladder now."
109:22:59 (CDR): "Okay. I just checked getting back up to that first step, Buzz. It's [the LM compressible landing leg] not even collapsed too far, but it's adequate to get back up.
109:23:38 (CDR): "I'm at the foot of the ladder. The LM footpads are only depressed in the surface about 1 or 2 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.
109:24:13 (CDR): "I'm going to step off the LM now."
"[I]f we fail, then the whole world,…all that we have known and cared for…will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that…men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'”
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