Spacelog Apollo 11

Oh, Just fine. How's the old White Team today?

Oh, the old White Team's bright-eyed and bushytailed. We're ever alert down here.

Ever alert and … Hey, you got any medics down there watching high grade? I'm trying to do some running in place down here, and I'm wondering just out of curiosity whether it brings my heart rate up.

Well, they will spring into action here momentarily. Stand by.

Hello, 11. We see your heart beating.

Okay, Well—look at the CDR's and the CMP's and see if they go up any. We're all running in place up here. You wouldn't believe it.

I'd like to see that sight. Why don't you give us a TV picture of that one.

I think Buzz is trying. You got it.

Okay. It's coming in at Goldstone, Buzz. As Bruce, said, we don't have it here in the center.

I'm afraid this isn't going to help out the PTC very much.

Yes. I don't know if it's a vibration or what it is, but it makes the pitch and yaw rate needles on FDAI number 1 jump up and down a little bit where we jump up and down.

Roger. Goldstoners say they see you running there, Mike.

Okay.

Ask him what he's running from.

11, Houston. Mike, we see about a 96 heartbeat now.

Okay. Thank you.

Well, that's about all that is reasonable, without getting hot and sweaty.

Goldstone should be getting about the best picture of the Earth we can give them right now, Charlie.

Roger, Mike. Thank you much.

We've got a tittle distortion in the horizontal direction from banding on our monitor. I wonder if they're getting the same thing?

Stand by, Buzz. I'll let you know.

I guess it would be more described as a waviness.

Goldstone M&O, Houston CAP COMM.

Goldstone M&O.

Okay. The crew is complaining of some horizontal banding on their monitor. Do you see that on the picture?

Stand by.

They wouldn't see anything now. We don't have anything in focus, Charlie.

Roger. He's checking on it. I'll see if they had it earlier. Stand by.

I guess when we're showing the DSKY or when we're showing the Earth might be the better time.

Okay.

Houston CAP COMM, Goldstone.

Go ahead.

Okay. Our TV people confirm they see this horizontal band.

Okay.

11, Houston. The Goldstone TV people also see the banding when—at the same time you do. Over.

Okay. Would they call it a horizontal waviness, instead of banding, maybe?

I'm not talking to them directly. Stand by, Buzz. Let me see how they describe it.

Goldstone M&O, Houston CAP COMM. Could you put the TV guy on the loop, please?

CAP COMM, Goldstone. Roger.

Houston CAP COMM, Goldstone M&O NET 1.

Go.

The TV people do not have access to NET 1 in that area. Suggest we use NET 2 For that purpose.

Okay. Going to NET 2.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. The Goldstone TV guys say they have some horizontal banding across the upper part of the picture and across the lower part. They would consider the lines just straight, no waviness to them at all. Over.

Roger. Understand. They do seem to distort vertical lines though.

Say again about the vertical lines, Buzz.

Roger. When there's a vertical line, these horizontal bands tend to put small waves in it.

Roger. I copy. He didn't mention that. Stand by, I'll check again.

Roger. We can terminate the O₂ purge at this time. Over.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. Please select OMNI Bravo on board. Over.

Okay. Going to Bravo, Charlie.

Roger.

How's everything going down there? You guys happy with the spacecraft systems?

Roger. Affirmative. Everything's looking really good to us. Over.

Okay. Same here.

Charlie, how far out can you pick up TV off the OMNI?

Stand by.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We're just about to the limits where we can get any kind of picture at all on the OMNI's on the TV. It—The picture, I guess, would be just almost zero at this point.

Okay. Well, for this TV program coming up in a couple of hours, you might give some thought to how you want us to stop PTC, if you do, for the best high gain angle; and also it would be nice if you could stop us at such an attitude that we'd have the Earth out of one of our windows.

Roger, 11. We're thinking about that.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We got some PIPA biases and general drift updates for you if you give us P00 and ACCEPT. Over.

Okay, Charlie. Stand by one.

Roger, 11. The —

You've got it.

Okay. Thank you much. Our biggest drift on the GYRO's is 0.03 degrees per hour with—on the X-GYRO. On the PIPA's, the Y-PIPA's the biggest and it's 0.006 feet per second so … trying to tweak it up. The biggest we have is about one sigma on both GYRO's and accelerometers.

Sounds good.

The system really looks good to us.

Glad to hear it, Charlie.

11, Houston. You can go back to BLOCK. We've got the load in.

Okay. Roger.

Boy, you sure get a different perspective in this thing in zero g. Right now, Neil's got his feet on the forward hatch, and he can with his arms reach—all five windows, He can reach down into—the LEB where the overboard drain is. He can practically reach over in the cockpit.

Sounds like Plastic Man to me.

I'm hiding under the left-hand couch trying to stay out of his way.

Houston, Apollo 11. You got a cloud over the Houston area right now?

Roger. We just had a really big thunderstorm here about a hour ago. Couple of storms around the area … Over.

Yes. I see one fairly large and isolated one. There are couple of more off to the left, but this one looks fairly good size. It could very well be the one that just passed over you.

Roger.

Yes, and it looks like the Cape has been having a little bit of rain, too.

Roger. The one we had here came in from the west and is moving east—or nearly so, as far as I could tell.

That view through this sextant is fantastic. I can see Alaska right up—right up along the LM, and I'm running the crosshairs right now down the coast of California, the west coast of Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula, up around the Gulf, Florida, Cuba, down Central America, and I'm running into the stop right now, on the sextant.

Roger. It sounds like a pretty fantastic view.

The guys in the weather office at Patrick wanted a report on the tops but I guess all we can say is we're above them.

Roger. We'll pass it on to METRO.

11, Houston. Do you see any predominant weather systems as far as frontal type or any buildup of tropical-storm type? Over.

Not any large ones. There are a couple of smaller disturbances. Well, there's one maybe 300 miles north of Cuba, but it doesn't look cyclonic.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We got a TV attitude for you and also an update to your CMC erasable load and your alternate contingency checklist, if you could break that out too. Over.

Roger. I'm not sure I caught all of that. Go ahead with what you have.