They wanted to run and make leaps that would be impossible to do on Earth, where they would each weigh 360 pounds with their suits and life-support backpacks. In spite of their cumbersome spacesuits, both astronauts found moving about in the one-sixth gravity exhilarating and described the experience as floating. They seemed to weigh a little more than nothing. There were many shades of gray and areas of utter black where rocks cast their shadows from an unfiltered sun, but no real color. No birds flying across an airless landscape. He stared at a sky that was the darkest of blacks. “Beautiful, beautiful! Magnificent desolation,” Aldrin said with feeling. The LM was Aldrin’s responsibility, and as soon as it was safe for him to leave their lander, he came down the ladder and joined Armstrong. Lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin stayed aboard Eagle to keep watch on all the lander's systems. He spoke: "That’s one small step for a man - one giant leap for mankind."
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