Welcome Ben. It's always good to come across another dedicated Apollo Nut. They are usually much better company than most hoax-believers.
I corrected the cue-ball error in the very first utterance.
That should be "Q-ball" not "cue-ball" in two places -- see posts 3 & 4 above. I nearly missed Gwiz's correction due to it sounding the same.
And a little further down Skip "Shovin" should be Skip "Chauvin" -- it's correctly spelled in the next paragraph.
At -01:56:35, Alan "Sheppard" should have only one "p".
This was a transcription error made in 1972 believe it or not--in the public affairs transcript, which doesn't appear to have been written by an expert...
There's a little discussion about the errors in the transcripts in this thread:--
Apollo 11 annotated landinghttp://www.apollohoax.net/forum/index.php?topic=428.msg15397#msg15397In post 13, JayUtah says:-- "The original Net-1 transcripts were hurriedly typed by various Houston area temp typists, very few of whom had any knowledge of space jargon. There are some howlers in there, and at least one author several years ago tried to spin those errors (but also the correctly-rendered jargon) into something nefarious."
I just made some additional small corrections and greatly improved the table of contents...
Please try to include the term "Twinkletoes" in the TOC for the hilarious episode when Jack Schmitt arses up starting at 144:50:52 at what was later called "Ballet Crater" in remembrance.
The description in the ALSJ is priceless, and it's great that Ed Fendell caught the event with the TV camera.
Geology Station 3 at Ballet Crater
144:50:52 Schmitt: I won't...Aaaahh! (Pause)
[Jack has knocked the SCB over, scattering full sample bags. He drops to his hands and knees, facing upslope, gets the SCB standing upright, retrieves the sample bags, and stows them in the SCB without getting up.]
144:51:05 Schmitt: You don't mind a little dirt here and there, do you, gang? (Pause)
144:51:16 Parker: No. (Long Pause)
[Jack leans back to get his PLSS over his heels and kicks upright. He makes it, but drops the SCB in the process. He goes to one knee to retrieve it but stumbles and falls on his chest. He gets up successfully and goes to the scoop.]
144:51:46 Cernan: Oh, dadgummit! (Pause) Well...
[From later evidence, Gene is having trouble re-attaching the rake to the extension handle. Meanwhile, Jack's unused sample bags have fallen off his camera again.]
144:51:53 Parker: Hey, Gene, would you go over and help Twinkletoes, please?
[Jack drops the SCB on the ground.]
144:52:01 Schmitt: I tell you, you fix that camera bracket so the bags stay on and I'll be a lot better off.
[Jack turns away from the TV camera while he examines his 70-mm camera to see how dirty it is.]
144:52:05 Parker: Roger.
144:52:07 Cernan: Want some help, Jack? I'll be there.
144:52:08 Schmitt: No! I don't need any help.
144:52:09 Cernan: Okay.
144:52:10 Schmitt: I just need better bags.
144:52:11 Parker: Jack, you might worry about whether your camera lens is dirty or clean, Jack. I don't know what you'd do about it.
144:52:19 Schmitt: I'm very worried about that.
144:52:20 Parker: I don't know what you'd do about it, but you might worry about it.
And later:
144:56:23 Parker: And be advised that the switchboard here at MSC (Manned Spacecraft Center, now the Johnson Space Center) has been lit up by calls from the Houston Ballet Foundation requesting your services for next season.
144:56:34 Schmitt: I should hope so.
[Schmitt - "They eventually named this Ballet Crater."]
As usual, a lot of the humour is extremely dry. More here:
http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthread.php/18178-Apollo-Astronauts-Joking-Around
