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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Right now it reads, “To exit G&N PTC,” then you've got a pen-and-ink change that says, “AUTO RCS SELECT, 12 MAIN A and B.” And you come down to the printed step 1. We'd like to take and move the “AUTO RCS SELECT, 12 MAIN A and B” down to be the second step, so the procedure would read, “Step 1, MANUAL ATTITUDE 3, ACCEL COMMAND; Step 2 AUTO RCS SELECT, 12 MAIN A B.” Step 3 would be, “Verify DAP load,” and so on. Over.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Roger. It should be the second step in that procedure. At time 22 40, or when you get to it, we'd like to commence a charge on battery A. And at time 24 10, we have an updated attitude for your P52 and optics calibration. Over.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Roger. P52 and optics calibration attitude: roll 330.5, pitch 086.3, yaw 000.0. The nominal attitude that's pen-and-inked in for the P23 is still good. At time 25 30, approximately, after you complete P23, we're requesting a waste-water dump down to a nominal 25 percent. Over.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 11, this is Houston. Did you copy the attitudes and the waste-water dump? Over.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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11, this is Houston. We're not reading you at the present time. You're way down in the noise level. Stand by, please.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Beautiful. Did you copy the attitudes for the P52 and the waste-water dump? Over.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Roger. Okay. We note the battery charge as soon as we get around to it, and the attitude for the P52 optics CAL: roll 330.5, pitch 086.3, and yaw all zeros. The attitude for the P23 as in the flight plan is okay; and I copy your battery charge. Crew status report as follows. Sleep CDR 7, CMP 7, LMP 5.5. And we've completed the postsleep checklist. Standing by for a consumable update. Over.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We're requesting a waste-water dump at GET 25 30 down to a nominal 25 percent, and here we go with the consumables update. At GET of 22 hours, RCS total is minus 3.5 percent. Alfa minus 3.5 percent, Bravo minus 1.5 percent, Charlie minus 5.0 percent, minus 4.0 percent, H2 minus 2 pounds, O2 minus 4 pounds. Over.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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I copied those consumables, and I'll read you back our RCS quantities. We got 86 percent in Alfa, 87 in Bravo, 88 in Charlie, and 90 in Delta. Over.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Roger. Waste water at—and we got the time on that, and it will be down to 25 percent.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Roger. We've started charging battery A, and voltage started off a lot higher than I expected. It was just a little bit shy of 40. It looks like it's dropping down some now, the battery charge holder. Seemed to me yesterday when we were doing this on battery C, it started out initially, and it went lower, the battery charge holder. Over.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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On charging battery A: now, it's at about 393 and—oh, about 1.5 amps. Looks like it's gradually increasing in the …
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Roger. On our CM,.we're showing you at 39.11, and your current's about what you reported.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Roger, 11. On your battery charging question, we feel that it's probably a difference between individual batteries; and it does seem to have gone away as sort of a startup transient here. Other factors that might conceivably have an influence on it would be battery temperature, things of this sort. EECOMM seems to feel that it's operating within the normal design limits. Over.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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11, this is Houston. If you are interested in the morning news, I have a summary here from PAO. Over.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Okay. From Jodrell Bank, England, via AP: Britain's big Jodrell Bank radio telescope stopped receiving signals from the Soviet Union's unmanned Moon shot at 5:49 EDT today. A spokesman said that it appeared the Luna 15 space ship “had gone beyond the Moon.” Another Quote: “We don't think it has landed,” said a spokesman for Sir Bernard Lovell, Director of the Observatory. Washington UPI: Vice President Spiro T. Agnew has called for putting a man on Mars by the year 2000, but Democratic leaders replied that priority must go to needs on Earth. Agnew, ranking government official at the Apollo 11 blastoff Wednesday, apparently was speaking for himself and not necessarily for the Nixon administration when he said, “We should, in my judgment, put a man on Mars by the end of this century.” Laredo, Texas, AP: Immigration officials in Nuevo Laredo announced Wednesday that hippies will be refused tourist cards to enter Mexico unless they take a bath and get haircuts. Huberto Cazaras, Chief of Mexican Immigration in Nuevo Laredo, said authorities in Mexico City, Acapulco, and other popular tourist spots have registered complaints about the hippies. By United Press International: Initial reaction to President Nixon's granting of a holiday Monday to Federal employees so they can observe a national day of participation in the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission mostly was one of surprise. Rodney Bidner, Associated Press, London AP: Europe is Moon struck by the Apollo 11 mission. Newspapers throughout the continent fill their pages with pictures of the Saturn V rocket blasting off to forge Earth's first link with its natural satellite. And the headline writers taxed their imagination for words to hail the feat. “The greatest adventure in the history of humanity has started,” declared the French newspaper Le Figaro, which devoted four pages to reports from Cape Kennedy and diagrams of the mission. The tabloid Paris Jour proclaimed, “The whole word tells them bravo.” The Communists daily L'Humanite led with the launch picture and devoted its entire back page to an enthusiastic Moon report describing the countdown and launch, the astronauts' wives and families, and backgrounding lunar activities. Hempstead, New York: Joe Namath officially reported to the New York Jets training camp at Hofstra University Wednesday following a closed door meeting with his teammates over his differences with pro football Commissioner Peter Rozelle. London UPI: The House of Lords was assured Wednesday that a midget American submarine would not “damage or assault” the Loch Ness monster. Lord Nomay said he wanted to be sure anyone operating a submarine in the Loch “would not subject any creatures that might inhabit it to damage or assault.” He asked that the submarine's plan to take a tissue sample with a retrievable dart from any monster it finds can be done without damage and disturbance. He was told it was impossible to say if the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act would be violated unless and until the monster found. Over.
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Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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Roger. Thank you, Bruce. Another thing on that number 2 item, we all … before we left, and we hope we get a chance to see him another time. Over.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Roger. And I understand he was down there and really enjoyed watching the launch. We all think it was pretty magnificent, and you all are doing great job up there.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Mike, we've got some comments on performance of P23 for today if you've got a minute to talk.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Okay. For today, we'd like you on P23 to make a trunnion bias determination, prior to P23 sightings as called out in procedures, and also one afterwards. Our intent here is to check out the possibility that some sort of thermal effect may be giving you errors in the angular read-out in the sextant. The bias that you get beforehand should be incorporated, that is a PROCEED on NOUN 87 after you get two consecutive measurements equal to within 0.003 degrees. And, of course, move the trunnion off a couple of degrees between the measurements. The Earth should be a lot smaller in your field of view today. I'm , sure you're a lot more qualified to tell us about that than we are, but to ensure that you're getting a good angle measurement between the star and the Earth horizon, the sextant M-line, which is the line that runs through the two hash marks and is perpendicular to the R-line, should be parallel to the Earth horizon at the substellar point. And then the actual superimposition of the star upon the horizon can be made at any point in the field of view of the sextant: above, below, or on the M-line. We recommend the marks be made as rapidly as possible after AUTO maneuver. If you feel that the amount of time between the AUTO maneuver and the time you get ready to mark is excessive, or that you don't like that AUTO maneuver attitude when you get ready to mark, of course, you can use a VERB 94—VERB 94 to get you back to the flashing 51 position to redo the AUTO maneuvers. Over.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Roger. Stand by one. We're going to stop PTC, and then we'll talk about this P23.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Okay. We're stopping PTC now and maneuvering to our P52 and optics CAL attitude. In regard to that P23, what I was trying to tell you yesterday was about that. The M-line is not anywhere parallel to the horizon at the roll, pitch, and yaw which you gave me to go to for the substellar point, and I was trying to maneuver off to get it parallel to the horizon when you all said that was not necessary.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Roger, 11. I guess in keeping the cups of coffee score, why you get that one.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Well—Okay—Well, this morning, let's just see how close it comes to being parallel to the M-line. Before we started marking for the first time, it appeared that the computation of—of those three angles was somewhat off, and that I was wasting a lot of gas by going to those three angles and then having to make large attitude changes after that to get the M-line parallel. In some cases it appeared to be just an accepted attitude required, and you all said that it wasn't needed. So I was marking in some cases with the M-line not parallel. I thought perhaps you had some processor for computing that offset and making sense out of that data, but as far as I know, we've got to have the M-line parallel to the horizon.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Roger, 11. We don't have that capability. We do require that the M-line be parallel to the horizon in order to get a good mark. We feel that possibly the—the state vector information that you were using for your maneuver basis yesterday may have needed to be updated a little. And if you'll standby a second, we'll give you an evaluation of what we feel you'll get today by the AUTO maneuver.
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Roger. I'm getting ready to do an O2 Fuel cell purge. Do you have any particulars on this? And I assume you want these one at a time, or can I triple up? Over.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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We'd like them one at a time, and stand by. I don't think we have any sequence. You can do them in any order you want.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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11, this is Houston. On our TM, here, we're only seeing values in two registers. Can you read us out the contents of register 3, please?
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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11, Houston. After you've completed P52, we'd like to uplink you a new state vector so we can start out clean on this P23. Over.
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Neil Armstrong (CDR)
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Houston, Apollo 11. It's triggered the MASTER ALARM three times, now. There goes number 4. It goes up to about 1.4, then oscillates back down to about 1.1. Over.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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11, Houston. On your O2 flow, fuel cell 3: apparently it was flowing a little higher than the other two during purge, but the flow rate is acceptable. Over.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Roger, It seems to be flowing a little bit more, and actually putting out more current than the other two, also. Over.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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11, this is Houston. We've completed the uplink; the computer is yours; you can go back to BLOCK.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Roger. I'm in a good attitude here to do—I have in the sextant this last P52 star, star 37. Is that all right for the optics calibration to save some gas, or do you want to go over to star 40?
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Star 37 will be fine for the optics calibration. And we haven't noticed a VERB 66, yet, after our state vector uplink. Over.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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When you move into P23, we recommend that you use the CMC-computed angles for your AUTO maneuver and see how that works out. If it doesn't bring you up with the M-line parallel to the horizon to the substellar point, we will see if we can get you some ground-computed angles. I guess the big thing here is to make sure that the M-line is parallel to substellar points so we can get a good angular measurement. Over.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Houston, Apollo 11. Marking on this star, I get a NOUN 87 twice in a row of five balls, so that's sufficient for a count.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Okay. Now I want to go to P00, and I am going to take your three angles and do a verify of 49 maneuver to your substellar point. Okay?
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We recommend that for the first star, if we gave you a new state vector, we'd like to try the CMC-computed angles for your AUTO maneuver.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)
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11, Houston. Over the past 2 hours we have seen a slight continuing increase in partial pressure Of CO2. Have you in fact changed the CO2 canister yet this morning? We don't need to do it right now; we'd just like to confirm it on our instrumentation—is in good shape. Over.
Spoken on July 17, 1969, 1:34 p.m. UTC (55 years, 3 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
