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.

Okays Houston. Neither Neil nor Mike can see it. Incidentally, those shafts and trunnions just missed pointing at the world.

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.

Hey, you earned your pay today, Charlie. Thank you.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. One request: the optics switch to zero. And we've got a lot of theories on why it maneuvered at seven-tenths a moment ago, Mike, but no real definite answer. We'll be back with you later. Over.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. Over.

Houston, Apollo 11.

Roger. Mike, I think we can explain that seven-tenths rate. When we—the first time through, you know, we failed to go through the VERB 49, so we had a large error between our actual CDU and desired CDU in roll. And with that situation, the DAP—the vehicle will roll—will maneuver, rather, at a rate that is loaded in, which was three-tenths plus four-tenths rate, and it will limit at four-tenths above the desired rate, so—that is if we have a large enough angle between the desired and the actual, which we did. So, therefore, the rate was four tenths plus three tenths to give you the seven tenths. Over.

Okay. Thank you.

Roger.

Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over.

Good morning, Houston. Apollo 11.

Good morning, Apollo 11.

… nice sleep. Be getting around to the …

How's everything look up here from the ground?

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Roger. Say again, please.

Roger. How do all our systems look?

Roger. They're looking great, and as far as we can tell everything is good from down here. Over.

Roger. Looks like the attitude held up real well during PTC last night.

Yes, it did. We were showing you remaining well within a circle of 10 degrees radius throughout the night. Seems to be working beautifully.

How's the old Green Team this morning? Did you have a quiet night?

Yes. It was a very quiet night. Down here the old Black Team is complaining they didn't get a chance to make any transmissions. Ron Evans is getting

Well, we'll be seeing them tomorrow, I guess.

Yes. Ron's getting to be known as the silent CAP COMM.

That's the best kind, Bruce.

(Laughter) Okay.

When you feel up to copying, 11, I've got a couple of small items in the way of a flight plan update and your morning consumables update. Over.

Apollo 11.

Roger, 11. We'd like to perform a waste-water dump at your convenience some time in the near future here. No particular time scheduled. Down air at the time for midcourse correction 3, which is about 53 55, we're deleting midcourse correction number 3 and all the items associated with it. For your information, the calculated value of the burn for midcourse number 3 was eight tenths of a foot per second, that is 0.8 feet per second. Canceling this, if we decide to burn midcourse correction 4, this would then give you a burn for midcourse correction 4 of 2.0 feet per second. At 53 hours we have an IMU realign P52. We're requesting that you do this while in PTC, and we plan to continue PTC throughout the day. Over.

- then we'll get to the waste-water dump —

Say again, please. You're cutting out.

Roger. —

11, this is Houston. Stand by a minute, please. We're having difficulty receiving you.

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Radio check. Over.

Roger, Houston. Read you loud and clear. How me? Over.

Roger. Reading you the same. We did a minor reconfiguration down here. Stand by. Out.