Spacelog Apollo 11

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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

11, this is Houston. You are GO for staging. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Understand, GO for staging. And —

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Stand by for mode IV capability.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Okay. Mode IV.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

MARK.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Mode IV capability.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Staging -

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

- And ignition.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Ignition confirmed; thrust is GO, 11.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. At 10 minutes, you are GO.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger. 11's GO.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Predicted cut-off at 11 plus 42. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

11 42. Roger.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. You are GO at 11.

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Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Good deal.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Shutdown.

Michael Collins (CMP)

SECO. We are showing 101.4 by 103.6.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. Shutdown. We copy 101.4 by 103.6.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. You are confirmed GO for orbit.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. The booster is safe.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. The booster has been configured for orbital coast. Both spacecraft are looking good. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Vanguard LOS at 15 35; AOS Canaries at 16 30. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Okay. Thank you.

CommTech

… Houston COMM TECH. Canary COMM TECH.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston through Canary. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger. Reading you loud and clear. Our insertion checklist is complete, and we have no abnormalities.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. And I'd like to pass up your Delta azimuth correction at this time if you're ready to copy.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Stand by.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger. Go ahead. Ready to copy.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Okay. Delta azimuth correction is plus 0.22, that is plus 0.22, and we do recommend the P52 alignment. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Okay. We'll go ahead with the P52, and detecting angle plus 0.22.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. And your LOS time at Canary is 23 37. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

23 37.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Houston. Roger. Out.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. One minute to LOS Canary; AOS at Tananarive 37 04 in VHF Simplex Alfa. Over.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Coming up on LOS Canary; AOS Tananarive at 37 04, Simplex Alfa. Houston. Out.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Apollo. Roger.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston through Tananarive. Over.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

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

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Houston, Apollo 11. Read you on VHF A Simplex. How do you read? Over.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger, 11. This is Houston. We're reading you loud and fairly clearly. For your information, Canary radar shows you in a 103.0 by 103.0 orbit. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Beautiful.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. We concur.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

… We're just coming into the terminator here.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. One minute to LOS Tananarive; AOS Carnarvon is at 52 15. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

All alone. Roger.

CommTech

TAN LOS.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston through Carnarvon. Over.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Houston, Apollo 11. Loud and clear. Over.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger, 11. We're reading you the same. Both the booster and the spacecraft are looking good to us. Over.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Houston, Apollo 11. Would you like to copy the alignment results?

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

That's affirmative.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Okay. NOUN 71: we used 30 and 37, four balls 1; NOUN 93: plus 00016, plus 00033, plus 00152; GET 00 48 15; check star 34. Over.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. Say again check star.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Check star 34.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. We copy. And the angles look good.

Michael Collins (CMP)

And tell Glenn Parker down at the Cape that he lucked out.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Understand. Tell Glenn Parker he lucked out.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Yes. He lucked out. He doesn't owe me a cup of coffee.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

This is Houston. Roger. We'll pass it on.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. One minute to LOS Carnarvon; AOS at Honeysuckle 59 33. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Apollo 11. Roger.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. And we request you turn up S-band volume for the Honeysuckle pass.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston on S-band. Radio check. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger, Houston. Apollo 11 reads you loud and clear.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

This is Houston. Roger. Reading you the same. Out.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. A little over 1 minute to LOS at Honeysuckle. You'll be AOS at Goldstone at 1 29 02; LOS at Goldstone 1 33 55. Over.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Roger, Bruce. Thank you. We expect TV. We've got it all hooked up. We have not yet turned it on. We're ready to do that now.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. We copy. We'll be configured and waiting for whatever you want to send down.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston through Guaymas. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger, Houston. Reading you loud and clear.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. Reading you the same. Coming up on AOS Goldstone.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Cecil B. deAldrin is standing by for instructions.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Houston. Roger.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. We are not receiving your FM downlink yet. We are standing by.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. We are receiving your FM downlink now. We are standing by for TV modulations on the signal.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

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

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger. Loud and clear. We think we are transmitting to you.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Okay. We are not receiving it yet, 11, although we have confirmed presence of your FM downlink carrier.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Which switches do you want us to confirm?

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Stand by.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. You were just on the fringes of coverage from Goldstone. We have just had LOS at Goldstone, and we'd like to push on and get the PAD messages read up to you here shortly.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger. We are ready to copy.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. I am ready with your TLI-plus-90-minute abort PAD.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. I am ready with your TLI-plus-90-minute abort PAD.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger. Apollo 11 is ready to copy TLI plus 90.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Go.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. TLI plus 90, SPS G&N: 63481, minus 153, plus 132; GETI 004 10 25 38; NOUN 81, minus 04761, plus 00001, plus 53361; roll 180 193 000; HA is NA; plus 00203 53573 633 53349, sextant star 33 1578 122. The boresight star is not available. Latitude minus 0252, minus 02580 11887 34345 016 03 50. GDC align Vega and Deneb. Roll 071 291 341. No ullage, undocked. I have your P37 for TLI plus 5 hours. Over.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Go ahead, TLI plus 5.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. P37 format, TLI plus 5: 00744 6485, minus 165, 02506. Read back. Over.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Roger. TLI plus 90, SPS G&N: 63481, minus 153, plus 132, 004 10 25 38, minus 04761, plus 00001, plus 53361, 180 193 000, not applicable, plus 00203 53573 633 53349, 33 1578 122, not available, minus 0252, minus 02580 11887 34345 016 03 50. Vega and Deneb, 071 291 341. No ullage, undocked. P37, TLI plus 5: 00744 6485, minus 165 02506. Over.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Readback correct. For your information, Goldstone reports receiving approximately 1 minute of FM downlink carrier. We were getting ready to request you confirm on the S-band AUX switches, the S-band AUX tape switch to OFF and the S-band AUX TV switch to TV. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

I confirm that that is the configuration we're in.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. Let us do a little more detective work here and we'll see if we can come up with something.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Okay.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Houston, Apollo 11 is ready to go ahead with the—extend the docking probe, and ready to go with the RCS hot fire when you're ready to monitor. Over.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. Go ahead with the probe, now.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Okay. We're ready to—for the hot fire check when you're ready.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. We're ready 11. Go ahead.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger. Here's the pitch.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. We are seeing the pitch hot firing and it looks good.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger. Be advised that we are unable to hear them.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. We copy.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Have you seen all three axes fire?

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

We've seen pitch and yaw; we've not seen roll to date.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Okay. I'll put in a couple more rolls.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Okay. We've got the roll impulses, and you're looking good here.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger. Houston, Apollo 11. We're standing by for a GO for sequence logic ON.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Go ahead and we'll watch you on TM.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Okay. Sequence logic, two of them. Sequence logic 1 and 2 coming up and ON.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this Houston. You are GO for PYRO ARM.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger. Thank you.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. If you will give us P00 in ACCEPT, we have a state vector update for you.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

You have P00 in ACCEPT.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. It will probably be another 10 or 15 seconds. We're going to go up through the Vanguard. When you are ready to copy, I have your TLI PAD.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Roger. Ready to copy TLI PAD.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. TLI: 23514 179 071 001, burn time 547 104356 35575. Roll for SEP 357 107 041, 301 287 319. TLI 10-minute abort pitch, 223. Read back. Over.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Roger. TLI PAD: 23514 179 071 001 547 104356 35575 357 107 041 301 287 319. TLI 10-minute abort pitch, 223. Over.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Roger. Would you read back DELTA-VC prime again? You were cut out by some noise.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Okay. Roger. I'm picking up the squeal here, also. DELTA-VC 104356. Over.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Readback correct. Out.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. We've completed the uplink; the computer is yours. You can go back to BLOCK. Would you verify that you have extended the probe? Over.

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Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger. That's verified; the probe is extended.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. About 2 minutes to LOS on this stateside pass. AOS Canaries at 1 50 13. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger. 1 50.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger. Houston, Apollo 11. Loud and clear.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Okay. On your service module RCS quad Bravo package temperature, we're showing it running a little low. Looks like about 20 degrees low—lower than the rest of the quads. Would you confirm that your RCS heater switch for quad Bravo is in PRIMARY? Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

You're correct. It was not in PRIMARY. It was off. It's on now. Thank you.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. Thank you.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Houston, Apollo 11. Go ahead.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. We've checked over the spacecraft and the launch vehicle guidance. They're both looking to be in good shape. We estimate you have better than a 99-percent probability of a guidance cut-off on the launch vehicle, so things are apparently holding in very well. For your information, MILA received approximately 1 minute of a usable TV picture, so apparently the system is working. And you're a little over a minute from LOS at Canary; AOS Tananarive is 2 hours 9 minutes and 18 seconds. Over.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Roger. We like those 99 numbers. Thank you.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. Out.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston through Tananarive. How do you read?

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston standing by through Tananarive.

CommTech

Tananarive, Houston COMM TECH NET 1.

CommTech

Tananarive, Houston COMM TECH NET 1.

CommTech

Goddard voice, Houston COMM TECH NET 1.

MSFN

Goddard voice, reading you loud and clear.

CommTech

Roger. We cannot raise Tananarive.

CommTech

Houston COMM TECH, Tananarive.

CommTech

Roger, Tananarive. Are you receiving CAP COMM's voice, and are you uplinking it?

CommTech

Negative.

CommTech

Roger. Monitor again and I'll tell CAP COMM to make one more transmission.

CommTech

Roger.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston standing by through Tananarive. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Houston, Apollo 11 …

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. Reading you loud and clear.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Houston, Apollo 11. We have the PYRO's armed.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

This is Houston. Roger. Out.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. One minute to LOS Tananarive; AOS at Carnarvon 02 25 30.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston through Carnarvon. Radio check. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger, Houston through Carnarvon. Apollo 11. Loud and clear.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. You're coming in very loud and very clear, here. Out.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. You are GO for TLI. Over.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Apollo 11. Thank you.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. Out.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Houston, 11.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. We'll be coming within range of the ARIA aircraft coverage, here, in about 1 minute. They're going to try uplinking both on S-band and on VHF this time. So if you turn your—make sure your S-band volume is turned up, we'd appreciate it. And we believe that we'll have continuous coverage from now on through the TLI burn. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Very good.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston through ARIA 4. Radio check. Over.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Houston, we read you strength 4 and a little scratchy.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. We're reading you strength 5, readability about 3. Should be quite adequate.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston. We're reading you readability about 3, strength 5. Sounds pretty good. Over.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Roger. We've got a little static in the background now.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston through ARIA 3. Radio check. Over.

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