Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger, 11. I guess in keeping the cups of coffee score, why you get that one.

Michael Collins (CMP)

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.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

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.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Houston, Apollo 11. Over.

Michael Collins (CMP)

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.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

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.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

And we're watching you on TM down here.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Houston, Apollo 11. You want to look at these NOUN 93's before I proceed on?

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Yes, please. Stand by a second.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

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?

Michael Collins (CMP)

Register 3: minus three balls 24.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. Minus three balls 24. And you can go ahead and proceed.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Okay. Proceeding at this time.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

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.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Houston, are you observing the higher O2 flow on fuel cell 3?

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

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.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. We saw them 1.3 now on TM. Stand by a second.

Michael Collins (CMP)

And we're in P00, now, for a state vector.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Roger. Give us ACCEPT, please.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

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.

Michael Collins (CMP)

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)

11, this is Houston. We've completed the uplink; the computer is yours; you can go back to BLOCK.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Houston, 11. I don't believe we were calling you right then,

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Go ahead.

Michael Collins (CMP)

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?

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

Star 37 will be fine for the optics calibration. And we haven't noticed a VERB 66, yet, after our state vector uplink. Over.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

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.

Michael Collins (CMP)

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.

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

That's certainly very sufficient.

Michael Collins (CMP)

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?

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

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.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Okay.

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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

And have you hit PROCEED on this display to enter the zero?

Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM)

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.