Spacelog Apollo 11

Okay. Understand. It's not our monitor. It must be the transmitter or the system.

Roger. I guess so, Buzz. We'll have them look into it, and see if they can suggest anything.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We've lost our command interface with Goldstone. We'd like you to switch to OMNI Delta. Over.

Roger. Going to Delta.

Roger.

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.

Roger. Understand about the camera. Say again about the O₂ purge.

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.

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.