Spacelog Apollo 11

Cecil B. deAldrin is standing by for instructions.

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.

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.

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

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

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over.

Roger. Houston, Apollo 11. Loud and clear.

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.

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

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over.

Houston, Apollo 11. Go ahead.

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.

Roger. We like those 99 numbers. Thank you.

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

Apollo 11, this is Houston standing by through Tananarive.

Tananarive, Houston COMM TECH NET 1.

Tananarive, Houston COMM TECH NET 1.

Goddard voice, Houston COMM TECH NET 1.

Goddard voice, reading you loud and clear.

Roger. We cannot raise Tananarive.

Houston COMM TECH, Tananarive.

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

Negative.

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

Roger.

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

Houston, Apollo 11 …

Roger. Reading you loud and clear.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Apollo 11. Thank you.

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over.

Houston, 11.

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.

Very good.

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

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

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

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

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