Spacelog Apollo 11

EECOMM's say they'd like to look at valve positions. Over.

Okay. Well, we're holding steady now at 0.3 pound per hour, and our cabin pressure is about 54; and I'll close the valve momentarily and then open it again to this position and tell you how much travel is required.

Roger.

It's about 30 degrees of travel, Charlie, from the closed position, which is with the arrow pointing at about three to three-thirty, four o'clock.

Roger.

Our flow is stabilized now at 0.6.

Roger. We copy. We're reading the same.

Okay.

Yes, open it back to the one o'clock position.

Roger.

Is that enough different positions, or you want more, Charlie?

Mike, that's good—good enough. We're satisfied now. Over.

Houston, Apollo 11. We've terminated direct O₂, our cabin pressure is 57, and, as a matter of curiosity, when we turn the DIRECT O₂ valve OFF, we get a master alarm just like they did in the spacecraft testing.

Roger.

11, Houston, we have a little update for you. When you go into the LM, we'd like you to unstow and bring back to the command module the following items. Over.

Ready to copy.

Roger. We'd like you to pick up the—out of the flight data file, the surface checklist, the mission rules NO-GO card, the DPS, APS, RCS limit cue card. Over.

Apollo 11, Houston. The reason we wanted you to bring those three items back, we'll have some updates for you, for those three. Over.

Apollo 11, Houston. We're getting the TV at Goldstone. We're not quite configured here at Houston for the transmission. We'll be up in a couple of minutes. Over.

Roger. This is just for free. This isn't what we had in mind.

Apollo 11, Houston. It's a pretty good show here. It looks like you almost got the probe out.

Yes, it's loose now.

Can you see that?

Roger, Neil. It's really good.

Not much light up in that area, but apparently the TV set's able to pick it up.

There are some bright spots shining on the probe. Apparently Sun shafting on it that just gets just about enough for us to make it out. Over.

I think those are the tunnel lights.

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Oh, Okay. You're right.

Okay. It's loose now. Coming down.

Roger.

Looks like it's a little bit easier than doing that in the chamber.

You bet. This is the only way …

You have to take it easy.

It's pretty massive, but it goes where you direct it.

11, Houston. That's a beautiful picture now, we've got. We're looking at a 12-second delay. To us you are just bringing it down by the optics now.

Mike must have done a smooth job in that docking. There isn't a dent or a mark on the probe.

Roger.

We're really getting a great picture here, 11. Over.

11, Houston. With a 12-foot cable, we estimate you should have about 5 to 6 feet excess when you get the camera into the LM. Over.

Roger.

We can see the probe now. Correction, the drogue.

Roger.

Okay. Drogue removal's coming next.

Roger. As we suspected.

We see lots of arms.

The only problem, Charlie, is these TV stagehands don't know where they stand.

Well, you got to really have a union card, there. We can't really complain too much, I guess.

Apollo 11, Houston. Do you have a little white dot in the bottom of your monitor—TV monitor? Over.

Roger. We do.

Roger. I guess part of the camera's been burnt out down there. These are really beautiful pictures now, Buzz. Over. Real clear.

Okay. We might have got just a little bit of Sun in there. Is it just one small white dot?

That's affirmative.

We went up in the tunnel checking the roll angle, Charlie, and it's 2.05 degrees.

Roger. Copy. 2.05 on the roll CAL.

And that's a plus.

Roger. Plus.

11, Houston. The tunnel looks pretty clear to us. Somebody going up there now. Over.

It's Mike checking his connectors up there now.

Roger.

11, Houston. The lighting up in there looks very good to us at this time. Over.

I think that's mostly the camera. It—it's subdued to say the least.

Roger. It's pretty—It's gathering pretty well to us. We see everything quite clearly up in there.

Well, the docking latches look good today just like they did yesterday. Everything up in there looks just fine.

That sounds fine to us. Over.

11, Houston. We can even read the decals up there on the LM hatch.

Well, let me zoom it up and see how much you can read.

Okay.

We can see the LM umbilical connection quite well there, Buzz. We see you zooming in on one of the decals now. It's, “To reset, unlatch handle; latch behind grip and pull back two full strokes.” That's about all we can make out.

Hey, you get an A-plus.

Thank you very much, sir. At least I passed my eye test.

I'm standing 6 feet from it, Charlie, and you can read it better than I can. There's something wrong with the system.

Roger.

That's a real good view of the LM hatch handle there, 11. Over.

Roger.

Looks like we'll be ready to go into the LM early if that's okay with you all down there.

Roger. It's fine with us, Neil. Go ahead anytime you wish. Over.

11, Houston. The white spot you see on your monitor, our TV people say it is a burn spot; but they expect it to dissipate after a couple of hours. Over.

Roger. Thank you.

Okay, the dump valve is actuated.

Roger. Copy, 11. We see that very clearly. Is that you, Buzz, with your hand on it?

Yes.

Roger.

11, Houston. We're really amazed at the quality of the picture up in the tunnel. It's really superb. Over.

It is, considering the amount of light up in there.

Roger. We're about to open our hatch now.

Roger.

Roger. There's that same guy that, when you open up the door, why, he's waiting there for you, and he turns the lights on.

How about that. Just like the refrigerator.

Buzz, the view in through your—by your right—left shoulder there is so good we can see the ascent engine cover, the Velcro on it, and that's about all we can make out right now.

Now we can see the helmet stowage bag —

We don't see anything loose up there.

Well, great. Looks good to us. We see the helmet storage bag.