132:02:57 Conrad: Oh, boy, is that...I want that rock. That is a dandy extra grapefruit-size-type goody. (Pause)

132:03:07 Bean: (I need to) find a crater with a shadow in it first. There's one. (Pause) Okay, Houston, I'm approaching a crater now and I'm going to put the contrast chart in it. One (photo taken with the chart placed) on each side (of the contact between sunlight and shadow). One on the sunny side, one on the shadow side. (Garbled)

132:03:35 Gibson: Roger. (Pause)

132:03:44 Bean: Okay. There's the one on the sunny side.

132:03:46 Conrad: Man, have I got the grapefruit rock of all grapefruit rocks! That's got to come home in the spacecraft; it'll never fit in the rock box. (Pause) Okay, Houston, I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to wind up at the right place at Head Crater; and, while I'm waiting for Al, I'll roll a boulder for you.

[Gibson is talking with Dick Gordon. Astronaut Jack Schmitt, a geologist who will fly on Apollo 17, takes over as CapCom for a short while.]

132:04:09 Bean: I'm now looking at the contrast...(Pause) (Sub vocal, taking a picture of the contrast chart on a level surface) Five (feet focus) and one (picture).

132:04:14 Schmitt: Pete, Houston. Can you give us a mark when you roll? Over

132:04:20 Conrad: That crater is...(Answering Houston) Yeah, I sure will. That crater is, by golly, a rather steep crater; a lot steeper than it looks from out the LM. It's...

132:04:37 Bean: Houston?

132:04:39 Schmitt: Yeah, go.

132:04:43 Bean: I'm looking at the contrast chart in the Sun and I can see all the different shades. Okay, now I've taken a photo of it; now I'll look at the one in the shadow. In the shadow, I can see...Well, it kind of depends on how close I am. If I'm within about 3 feet of it or 4 feet of it, I can see all six shades. I'll take a picture here, then I'll back up.

132:05:10 Conrad: Let me ask you a question, Houston. How big a rock?

132:05:17 Schmitt: Pete, Houston. I presume whatever's a convenient size for you. We'll check that out though.

132:05:27 Conrad: (chuckles) How about a grapefruit-size rock? That's what I'm holding in my hand and these other rocks that I was talking to you about are pretty well buried, and they're pretty large. I don't think I could get one of them going.

132:05:40 Schmitt: (To Pete) Roger. We copy. Grapefruit-size or any size is fine.

132:05:49 Conrad: Okay. Al, are you standing still?

132:05:53 Bean: Yeah, I'll stand still; go ahead.

[They need to stand still so that the signal from the rock can't be confused with signals generated by their movements.]

132:06:00 Conrad: Mark. It's starting down. Hit, hit, hit, hit. (About one second intervals) Now it's just rolling. Roll, roll, roll, still rolling.

132:06:13 Schmitt: Roger, Pete. We've got some jiggles...

132:06:14 Conrad: Roll, roll, roll.

132:06:15 Schmitt: ...that I can see here. We'll get a reading on it for you.

132:06:22 Conrad: Still rolling. Still rolling. Very slowly, still rolling. And it's stopped...

132:06:31 Conrad: Mark. Stop. (Pause)