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.

Stand by one, Charlie; we'll try and give you a closeup.

Roger.

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.

And we're glad of it.

Boy, you guys have sure been doing a good job of watching us, Charlie. We appreciate it.

The spacecraft's been beautiful, 11. We've really no complaints at all. Looks—Things are really great.

Can you see this DSKY on the MDC?

That's affirmative. It appears that—can't quite tell what program … went P00. We see you punching in a VERB 35, I think it is. Over.

Yes. Might as well tell the EECOMM's—or tell the GNC and everybody to hold on to their hat and I'll push the EKTER button.

Roger.

Roger. We see a real display now.

That's a good demonstration of how the crew has the interface with the computer, talking to the programs and all that we have in the computer.

Well, that's right, Charlie. Sometimes it tells us things and sometimes we tell it things and mostly it talks to us.

11, Houston, We just lost our pic—I see we're going back outside now. Over.

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11, Houston. We copy. Over.

Roger. We copy, and as we pan back out to the distance at which we see the Earth, well, it's Apollo 11 signing off.

Roger, Apollo 11. Thank you much for the show. It's a real good half hour. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. Out.

Okay. That's it, Charlie.

11, Houston. We appreciate the show. Thank you very much. Over.

Right.

Apollo 11, Houston. Would you key ERROR RESET on the DSKY, please? Over.

Okay. We should be straightened out now, Charlie, and back in P00.

Houston, Apollo 11. How do we stand on this O₂ fuel cell purge? You want to go ahead and do that as scheduled in the flight plan?

Stand by, 11. Over.

Okay.

11, Houston. You can commence the O₂ fuel cell purge now if you'd like. Over.

Okay. Fine.

While Buzz is doing that, I'll change the lithium hydroxide.

Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 11.

Roger, Buzz. The attitude that we're in right now is a convenient one to start PTC in. We'd be satisfied with this attitude. So we'd like you to disable quads Charlie and Delta; and we'll wait about 5 to 10 minutes, and than we'll establish the PTC. Over.

Roger. Disable Charlie and Delta, and we'll wait before starting PTC.

Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. The rates are damped out well enough for you to initiate the PTC now. Over.

Houston, Apollo 11.

Roger. Go ahead.

Roger. This time the DAP didn't like 0.3. It's—We followed the procedures; we got down to 70 000 ENTER. It took off at about 0.7.

Roger. We're copying that. Stand by.

Houston, Apollo 11. Would you like high gain back?

Roger. And you—Would you select ATTITUDE HOLD? Over.

Houston. Would you say again what your request is?

Roger, 11. We'd like you to go back to ATTITUDE HOLD. Over.

Roger.

11, Houston. Looks like we're going to have to reinitialate—reinitialize this PTC.

All right.

Okay. Do you have any roll angle that you'd like to stop it in, Charlie? I haven't stopped it yet.

Stand by.

11, Houston. It's your preference. Right now if you want to. Over.