Editing List of Apollo astronauts (section)

== Lunar activities ==
Armstrong descended the lunar module ladder and spoke his famous [[epigram]], "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."<ref name="Snopes">{{cite web|last=Mikkelson|first=Barbara|last2=Mikkelson|first2=David|date=October 2006|title=One Small Misstep: Neil Armstrong's First Words on the Moon|url=http://www.snopes.com/quotes/onesmall.asp|access-date=September 19, 2009|website=Snopes.com}}</ref> He then went to work on collecting the contingency sample, which was a scoop of the lunar surface collected early in the mission in case there was an emergency.<ref>{{cite web|last=Meyer|first=Charles|date=2009|title=Lunar Sample Compendium: Contingency Soil (10010)|url=http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/lsc/10010.pdf|access-date=June 13, 2013|work=Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science|publisher=NASA}}</ref> Armstrong took the TV camera off the lunar module and mounted it to a tripod.<ref name="ALSJ 3">{{cite web|date=1995|editor1-last=Jones|editor1-first=Eric M.|editor2-last=Glover|editor2-first=Ken|title=First Steps|url=http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.summary.html|access-date=September 23, 2006|work=Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal|publisher=NASA}}</ref> After that, Aldrin descended the ladder to join Armstrong.<ref name="ALSJ 4">{{cite web|date=1995|editor-last=Jones|editor-first=Eric M.|title=One Small Step|url=http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.step.html|access-date=June 13, 2013|work=Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal|publisher=NASA}}</ref> Aldrin egressed to the surface about nineteen minutes after Armstrong.{{sfn|Orloff|2000|pp=102–110}} They had some trouble planting the American flag into the lunar soil, but were able to secure it into the surface. Aldrin positioned himself in front of a video camera and began experimenting with different locomotion techniques on the surface.{{sfn|Chaikin|2007|pp=212–213}} During these experiments, Armstrong and Aldrin received a phone call from President Nixon, congratulating them for the successful landing.{{sfn|Chaikin|2007|p=215}}

Aldrin then set to work documenting the condition of the spacecraft to ensure it was in proper condition for their upcoming launch. After setting up a couple of experiments with Armstrong, Aldrin went to work hammering a tube into the lunar surface to obtain a core sample.{{sfn|Chaikin|2007|pp=216–217}} Aldrin's EVA ended when they loaded the lunar samples into the spacecraft and tossed out unneeded items, just before sealing the hatch.<ref name="ALSJ 3" /> Armstrong performed the majority of the photography on the surface, which is why there are only five photos of him on the Moon.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Jones|first1=Eric M.|date=July 28, 2011|title=AS11-40-5886|url=http://next.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.5886.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728042723/http://next.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.5886.html|archive-date=July 28, 2011|access-date=May 13, 2011|website=Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal|url-status=dead|publisher=NASA}}</ref>

Soon after piloting the LM ''Falcon'' to a landing at [[Hadley Rille]], Scott accomplished the only stand-up EVA through the lander's top hatch, using it as a high place from which to refine the geology traverses he and Irwin would undertake during the following days. Scott became the first to drive a vehicle on the Moon as he drove the [[Lunar Roving Vehicle]], more than doubling Apollo 14's EVA time. After the final traverse, back outside the LM, Scott performed a demonstration of Galileo's theory that all objects fall at the same rate in vacuum by dropping a hammer and a feather for the television camera.

Irwin came onto the lunar surface soon after his commander, Scott. As the LRV's first passenger, he had an often rough ride as Scott swerved to avoid craters.{{sfn|Chaikin|2007|pp=417–418}} It was Irwin who, during the second EVA, first spotted the [[Genesis Rock]] and aided Scott in collecting this bit of the early lunar crust.{{sfn|Chaikin|2007|pp=430–431}} A man of deep Christian religious faith, Irwin quoted from [[Psalms]] while on the lunar surface and later became an evangelist.{{sfn|Chaikin|2007|pp=437, 442, 557–558}}