Spacelog Apollo 11

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. McDonald's got the laser turned on, Would you take a look? Over.

Okay, Charlie.

11, Houston. We got some shaft and trunnion for you that might tweak it up a little bit. Shaft of 141.5, trunnion of 39.5. Over.

Okay. Stand by.

Apollo 11, Houston. If you see it, it should be coming up—appear to be coming up, through the clouds. McDonald reports that there's a break in the clouds that they're beaming this thing through. Over.

Roger.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. You can terminate the exercise on the Laser. Our rates are steady enough now for—to commence the PTC. Over.

Roger. Thank you.

As we are looking at it through the scanning telescope, it would be about a—oh, maybe a third of an Earth radii high and to the left.

Roger.

But, we did—but we did identify the El Paso area and it appeared to us to be a break in the clouds there, and we looked in that break and saw nothing.

Houston, Apollo 11. Over.

Roger. Go ahead. Over.

Were you following that on the DSKY?

Roger. Stand by.

11, Houston. What's your exact question? Over.

I've followed the procedure through step 7 down to the point where I've got 27303 ENTER, and this resulted in an OPERATOR ERROR LIGHT.

Roger. Stand by.

Apollo 11, Houston. Stand by a moment. We'll have an answer for you momentarily. Over.

Okay. Appreciate it, Charlie. Now the light's gone out without any further DSKY action.

Roger.

Correction. Stand by; that's not so.

Apollo 11, Houston.

Houston, Apollo 11.

Roger. We've finally gotten concurrence on our problem here with 50 guys looking at it. When we were sitting in the 5018, we attempted to load the erasable before you terminated the VERB 49. So Mike, what we're going to have to do is call up the present CDU's, copy those down, and do a VERB 49, load the present, then do a PROCEED, then an ENTER, and then we can then set up ATTITUDE HOLD in step 6. Over.

Okay. I think that's what we did last time.

It appeared to us that we attempted to load the erasable prior to entering on the VERB 49 which VERB 49 was still running, and it clobbered the CDU's. Over.

Houston, Apollo 11. We're moving at the proper rate.

Hallelujah!

11, Houston. It looks great to us now. Over.

It looks fine here, Charlie. The 0.7 part is the only part I don't find explained yet.

Roger, Mike. We're working on that one right now. We're coming up with the story soon. Over.

Thank you.

11, Houston. We're handing over COMM to Goldstone. Over. Correction, from Goldstone to Honeysuckle. Over.

Okay.

Hello, Houston through Honeysuckle. Ov —

Apollo 11, Houston. Go ahead. Over.

You sound good to us through Honeysuckle. How do we sound?

Roger. You're five-by, Mike. We'd like the OMNI configuration as follows. OMNI Alfa place in Bravo, OMNI to OMNI, high-gain track to MANUAL, high-gain yaw 270, pitch —

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. How do you read now? Over.

Roger. I'm reading you loud and clear. I'm not sure I got all those. I've got S-band OMNI B, OMNI, track to MANUAL, and beam wide, pitch—you'd better say that again, and yaw 270. Over.

Roger, Buzz. I broke up at pitch minus 50 at beam wide. Over.

Roger. Copy.

Houston, Apollo 11. Are you ready to copy some numbers on status report, et cetera.

Say again. Over.