Spacelog Apollo 11

Roger, 11. We've—Could you attempt a little bit better focus there, 11? Over.

11, Houston. That's a lot better on the star chart now. We can make out the ecliptic plane and the planets and the Sun and the Moon as they have gone at various places throughout the ecliptic plane. Over.

Okay, Charlie.

If we can get some of the wires untangled here, we'll give you a demonstration of how easy pushups are up here.

11, Roger. Good view of Buzz, there.

When it gets pretty hard doing it that way, we just roll over and do it the other way.

Roger. We copy. We couldn't figure out whether that was a chinup or a pushup. Just take your choice, I guess.

Well, it looks like it's probably almost your dinner time down there, Earth. We'll show you our food cabinet here in a second.

11, Roger.

11, Houston. We see a box full of goodies there. Over.

We really have them, Charlie. We've got all kinds of good stuff. We've got coffee up here in the upper left and various breakfast items, bacon in little small bites, beverages like fruit drink, and over in the center part we have, oh, all kinds of things. Let me pull one out here and see what it is.

Roger.

Would you believe you're looking at chicken stew, here? All you have to do is—3 ounces of hot water for 5 or 10 minutes. Now we get our hot water out of a little spigot up here with a filter on it that filters any gases that may be in the drinking water out, and we just stick the end of this little tube in the end of the spigot and pull the trigger three times for 3 ounces of hot water and then mush it up and slice the end off it and there you go, beautiful chicken stew.

Sounds delicious.

Yes. The food so far has been very good. We couldn't be happier with it.

Roger.

Could I borrow that flashlight a second?

The surgeons are saying thank you, there, for that.

And it is sort of down in a dark corner, so we have a flashlight here to help us see things; and if I can let go of it carefully, it'll just hold itself right where it is.

Roger.

As long as it's …, it will.

Apollo 11, Houston. That's a pretty good demonstration. You started off really stable there, Mike. It's -

Well, the problem is, no matter how carefully you let go, you bump it just a tiny little bit and set it in motion, and once in motion there she goes. Try that again.

It looks fairly stable now with slow rotation.

Well, so much for the food department. I'm going to close up the store down here.

Roger. We copy.

Charlie, we checked out the cable lengths, and we're thinking we might want to see if we can take the TV into the LM with us tomorrow for part of the time. Over.

Roger. Good show. We'd like to see it if it'll reach that far. Over.

We'll give it a try.

Roger.

And where we sleep is down underneath this couch.

Houston. Roger.

Slowly sinking into the sack there.

It's really comfortable.

Forgot to give Buzz his flashlight back.

Apollo 11, Houston. Could you give the folks a view of your patch on your CWG's? Over.

11, Houston. We have the patch. Could you attempt to improve the focus slightly? Over.

11, Houston. The scan on the camera makes the—that's a little bit better now. The flashlight seems to flicker, due to the scan on the TV. We can't see the eagle. Now it's a little bit better. Over. Could you open the f-stop a little bit more? Over.

It's open all the way. We're going to have to move Buzz around a little bit.

Roger.

Apollo 11, Houston. The color is better now. It's coming in. We could attempt a little bit better focus on it. There we go; it focuses a lot better now. We see the eagle coming right in on the lunar surface. Over. That's very good now.

Apollo 11, Houston. That's very good now. We can see the Earth in the background, Apollo 11, and the eagle coming in.

It's probably pretty hard to see the olive branch, isn't it?

Roger. It is.

Well, that's what he has in his talons, is an olive branch.

Copy.

Apollo 11, Houston. We're really impressed with the clarity and the detail that we have in the picture. The colors are—now, it's really an excellent picture now that I'm looking at it on our monitor, which is about 12 seconds before the networks can get it out due to the conversion that we have here on our TV converter. We're looking at the controls in the main display console. We can see the DSKY up on the panel. Over.

That would be nice if you could take a look at all the circuit breakers; make sure the right ones are in and the right ones are out.