After the Lunar Module docked with the Command Module, and the Command Module Pilot re-aired the docking tunnel, opened his hatch, removed the docking probe, and knocked on the LM hatch, are there any reports of the crew in the LM asking “Who’s there?”
Cause it seems to me that’s the sort of thing Conrad would have done.
If it ever happened - that would definitely be the crew…
Conrad wanted to keep the lunar dust out of the CSM so both he and Bean stripped completely naked before leaving the LM and coming back to the CSM. My understanding is that they remained that way until they had finished the Trans Earth Injection to begin the return to Earth.
Wasn’t there a Russian cosmonaut who, after the other craft’s probe entered the docking ring, screamed, “We’re being raped!” Not sure if that’s truth, fiction or anecdote, but it’s pretty funny.
Yes, it was during the rendezvous and docking of Soyuz 4 and 5 (the first Russian manned spacecraft to successfully dock together).
I recall reading that the line went out over Soviet television, but that for subsequent rebroadcasts and news reports that portion of the audio was removed.
There have certainly been confused attributions of which astronaut we’re looking at in any given video recording, but the camera that sent back Armstrong’s first step down onto the surface was mounted on a swing-out bracket on the LM itself.
Later images of one of them backing down the ladder are from the camera relocated to a stand away from the lander, and while I think there are distinguishing marks between the two men’s suits, that may not have come until the later missions, precisely because it was hard to tell them apart. So if a particular shot is mislabeled, it’s not likely to be from any malicious intent. (Except maybe on Aldrin’s… :rolleyes: )