Spacelog Apollo 11

Roger. You're five-by now.

Okay. We're zooming the lens on in until it will just about fill the monitor.

Roger.

Okay. It's in full zoom, now.

Copy, 11.

And how about the f-stop? Is 22 going to be accurate?

Stand by. We'll get with the Goldstone TV guy. We don't have anything here at Houston. Stand by.

It looks good on the monitor, as far as the f-stop goes. Therefore, we just assumed it's okay at Goldstone.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. Goldstone says it—TV looks really great, five-by; we don't—The AGC looks like it's working fine. The f:22 is good; we have no real white spots. They're real pleased with it. Over.

Okay. You just cut out, Charlie. We understand that it's looking great. We'll leave it the way it is and wait for you to come back on.

Roger. How do you read me now? Over.

Five-by.

Okay. My comments were—My comments were from Goldstone that they see no white spots as we saw in 10. Looks like the AGC's working real well. The f:22 looks good. Over.

Okay. Very good. Well, we shut out the Sun coming in from the other windows into the spacecraft, so it's looking through a—the number 1 window, and there isn't any reflected light now. So, it ought to be a pretty good picture.

Roger.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We'd like you to keep the TV on for about 10 minutes or so, so we can get come good comparison on the camera. You can do anything your heart desires on the TV: interior, exterior, pan in and out, anything you'd like. Over.

11, Houston. Over.

Houston, Apollo 11. Over.

Roger. Go ahead. Over.

Charlie, I'm sorry; you keep cutting out. We heard up to “you can do anything,” and then after that we didn't hear anything, and we knew that wasn't right anyhow because we can't. But what do you want us to do?

Roger. We'll check this uplink on our voice. That transmission on the TV was—We'd like to get about 10 minutes worth of signal at Goldstone so we can look at the camera quality back here at Houston for about 10 minutes or so when they patch it back into us. What we were saying was that you can go interior or exterior on the camera. On the exterior shots, we'd like to look —

You cut out again.

Stand by.

Start over with, “we were saying.”

Okay, Houston. You suppose you could turn the Earth a little bit so we can get a little bit more than just water?

Roger, 11. I don't think we got much control over that. Looks like you'll have to settle for the water.

11, Houston. We're going to change—thinking about changing our voice uplink to another site. If you'll stand by, we'll see if we can improve the quality. Over.

Okay, Charlie.

We'll stand by for your call.

Apollo 11, Houston. We'll try once more on this TV request. We'd like 10 minutes worth of TV. And we'd like a narrative, if you could give us one, on the exterior shots. You could also—we also suggest you might try the—an interior position. Over.

Roger. We're seeing the center of the Earth as viewed from the spacecraft in the eastern Pacific Ocean. We have not been able to visually pick up the Hawaiian Island chain, but we can clearly see the western coast of North America. The United States, the San Joaquin Valley, the High Sierras, Baja California, and Mexico down as far as Acapulco, and the Yucatan Peninsula; and you can see on through Central America to the northern coast of South America, Venezuela, and Colombia. I'm not sure you'll be able to see all that on your screen down there …

Roger, Neil. We just wanted a narrative such that we can—When we get the playback, we can sort of correlate what we're seeing. Thank you very much.

I haven't seen anything but the DSKY so far.

Looks like they're hogging the window.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. On your CRYO's, we'd like at this time for you to place all four CRYO heaters to AUTO and turn off all four CRYO fans. Over.

Okay. All four CRYO heaters are AUTO. And all four CRYO fans are off . …

Roger. That's going to be your sleep configuration.

Okay.

And, Buzz, we'll be terminating the battery charge in about a half hour.

Roger.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. You can terminate the TV at your convenience. We've got enough take. And you can start PTC at your convenience. The rates look super for starting up. Over.

Apollo 11, Houston. We have a flight plan update for you and some P37 block data, if you're ready to copy. Over.

Stand by.

Okay, Houston. PTC is started now; looks good to us, and we'll be ready to copy in a minute or two.

Roger. Copy, 11.

Houston, Apollo 11. Ready to copy the flight plan update and P37.

Roger. Stand by one, Buzz.

Roger. 027 44 5363, minus 165 073 14 037 44 8016, minus 165 072 46; GETI 046 44 6141, minus 165 097 03 055 44 8209, minus 165 096 42. Ready for your readback. Over.

Roger. 027 44 5363, minus 165 073 14 037 44 8016, minus 165 072 46 046 44 6141, minus 165 097 03 055 44 8209, minus 165 096 42. Over.

Roger, 11. That was a good readback. That was the block data scheduled for 12 hours. We'd like to just say that on a flight plan update here, just to remind you of some things, and you can do them at your convenience and then go to sleep early if you'd like. We don't have anything else planned, but we'd like to just remind you on the filter change, the O₂ fuel cell purge. And we'd like a LM/CM DELTA-P and accomplish the presleep checklist.

Okay. We've completed the filter change, and we'll get started on the fuel cell purge, and stand by for the LM/CM DELTA-P.

Roger, 11. Would you hold off on the fuel cell purge? EECOMM is saying we might not have to do that. Over.

Okay.

Charlie, the LM/CM DELTA-P is 0.5.

Copy. 0.5. Out.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We've just decided to delete the O₂ fuel cell purge. Over.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We've been noting some funnies on the O₂ flow indicator transducer. We've kind of got a suspicion that the transducer—We expected to see an O₂ flow pegged high with the waste stowage vent to VENT. It was not. We also noted some funny indications when you closed the waste stowage vent valve. We're going to continue to take a look at this through the night, and we'll be with you in the morning with an assessment of the problem. Also, we'd like to ask specifically, when you place the waste stowage vent valve to VENT, does the detent—correction—Does the arrow line up with the detent? Over.

Stand by one, Charlie. We'll give you something on the detent.

Roger.

Right now it's at CLOSED, and I lined up with CLOSED before I was at VENT; and best I can recall, it was quite accurately lined up with VENT. Would you like me to go to VENT again momentarily and see where it lines up?

That's negative. That question's answered. Thank you much.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We have an S-band configuration for you. Over.

Roger. Go ahead.

Roger, Buzz. We'd like you to place the S-band antenna OMNI A switch to the Bravo position. S-band antenna OMNI switch to the OMNI position, the high gain track to MANUAL, and the high gain angles will be yaw 270, pitch minus 50. Over.

Roger. Understand. OMNI to Baker and OMNI, MANUAL. And the angles are yaw 270, pitch minus 50, and was that narrow or wide? Over.

Stand by. Roger. We'd like it in WIDE, and you can set that configuration up now. Over.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. You can terminate battery Bravo charge, and we'd like a crew status report. We're about to tell you good night. Over.

Houston, Apollo 11. The battery charging is complete, and the crew status report is as follows: radiation, CDR 11002, CMP 10002, LMP 09003; negative medication; fit as a fiddle. Over.

Roger. Copy, 11. Thank you much. We'd like to ask one question. Have you tried the gas separator on the water? How is that working? Over.

Yes. Mike's got a couple of comments on that.

It's working good so far, Charlie. We've got one installed on the water gun and the other one installed on the spigot down in the LEB, and we—mention one problem with them is that they leak at the junction between the food bag and the water filter. However, with that exception, they seem to be working pretty good. We were getting some gas through initially, and I think that was just getting the system purged out to begin with; and the last tubeful we poured was almost free of bubbles. Over.

Roger. Sounds good. We'll check in on that problem with the SPAN guys and let you know in the morning. If you have to call us tonight, we'd like you to do it on DOWNVOICE BACKUP. We're configuring the MSFN for that mode; and as far as we can see, you're cleared for some z's. Over.

Okay. Maybe we'll get around to lunch.

How about a peanut butter and jelly?

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. Hope you aren't—we aren't disturbing you. We'd like you to terminate the NOUN 65 now. Over.

Apollo 11, Houston. Over.

Houston, Apollo 11 …

Roger, Buzz. When you stopped—or, correction—When you terminated the NOUN 65, it appears to us, you get a VERB 46 which collapsed the deadband back to 0.5. We're okay as long as you do not turn on any AUTO RCS SELECT switches. Over.

Okay. I thought that was a—better way to clear the DSKY but evidently it isn't. Roger.

Roger. VERB 34 would have been a better procedure.

Yes. Thank you.

Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over.

Good morning, Houston. Apollo 11.

Roger, Apollo 11. Good morning.

When you're ready to copy, 11, I've got a couple of small flight plan updates and your consumables update, and the morning news, I guess. Over.

Apollo 11. …

Go ahead, 11.

Roger. Standing by for your updates. Over.

Okay, 11. This is Houston. At time approximately 22 30 in the flight plan, in your postsleep checklist, and in all other postsleep checklists, we'd like you to delete the statement that says “AUTO RCS JET SELECT, 16 to ON,” and what we're doing here is picking this up in the procedure for exiting PTC that's in your CSM checklist. And in the CSM checklist on page Foxtrot 9-8: if you want to turn to that, we'd like to change the order of the steps in that. Over.

Stand by.

Okay. Page F 9-8. Go ahead.