Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Roger. Going to Delta.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Oh, okay. Fine. Will do.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Michael Collins (CMP)

Okay. Going to Bravo, Charlie.

Michael Collins (CMP)

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

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Michael Collins (CMP)

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

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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.

Michael Collins (CMP)

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.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Roger, 11. We're thinking about that.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Okay, Charlie. Stand by one.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

The system really looks good to us.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

Glad to hear it, Charlie.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Sounds like Plastic Man to me.

Michael Collins (CMP)

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

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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)

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.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Roger. It sounds like a pretty fantastic view.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Roger. We'll pass it on to METRO.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Roger.

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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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