Spacelog Apollo 11

… Houston COMM TECH. Canary COMM TECH.

Apollo 11, this is Houston through Canary. Over.

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

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

Stand by.

Roger. Go ahead. Ready to copy.

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

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

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

23 37.

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

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

Apollo 11, this is Houston through Tananarive. Over.

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

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

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.

Beautiful.

Roger. We concur.

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

All alone. Roger.

Apollo 11, this is Houston through Carnarvon. Over.

Houston, Apollo 11. Loud and clear. Over.

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

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

That's affirmative.

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.

Roger. Say again check star.

Check star 34.

Roger. We copy. And the angles look good.

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

Understand. Tell Glenn Parker he lucked out.

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

Houston. Roger.

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

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

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

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

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

Which switches do you want us to confirm?

Stand by.

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.

Roger. We are ready to copy.

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

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

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

Go.

Go ahead, TLI plus 5.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Okay.

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.

Roger. Go ahead with the probe, now.

Roger.

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

Roger. We're ready 11. Go ahead.

Roger. Here's the pitch.

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

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

Roger. We copy.

Have you seen all three axes fire?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roger. Thank you.

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

Roger.

You have P00 in ACCEPT.

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.

Roger. Ready to copy TLI PAD.

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.

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

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

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