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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Roger. I guess so, Buzz. We'll have them look into it, and see if they can suggest anything.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We've lost our command interface with Goldstone. We'd like you to switch to OMNI Delta. Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We'd like you to terminate the O2 purge if you have not done so already, and the TV camera people say that the lines are inherent in the camera, Buzz; and it's something that we expected. Over.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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How's everything going down there? You guys happy with the spacecraft systems?
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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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.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Okay.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We got some PIPA biases and general drift updates for you if you give us P00 and ACCEPT. Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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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.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We just had a really big thunderstorm here about a hour ago. Couple of storms around the area … Over.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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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.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Roger. The one we had here came in from the west and is moving east—or nearly so, as far as I could tell.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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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.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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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.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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11, Houston. Do you see any predominant weather systems as far as frontal type or any buildup of tropical-storm type? Over.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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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.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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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.
Spoken on July 17, 1969, 8:35 p.m. UTC (55 years, 3 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
