Spacelog Apollo 11

Hello, 11. Houston. We got a view of the PLSS there, off the right of our screen.

11, Houston. Buzz, you already in? Over.

Roger. I'm halfway in, hanging out. Start turning around, I guess.

Roger.

Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like you to read out the LCG reservoir sight level. Over.

Okay. Stand by.

11, we have a good view of the window there. It looks like the Sun's finally coming through the shade.

Yes, I'm afraid it's—We're just about plus Z toward the Sun.

That's affirmative. This attitude put both windows right toward the Sun—or the LM. Over.

Well, that may be good in some respects, but -

We had a view, Buzz, of the utility light cord. …

Now let me show you a view looking the other way.

Roger. And we see right now the utility light or either the floodlight up there.

I think now I see the utility light still in the stowage bag. Hey, that's a great shot right there. We see you in there. Guess that's Neil and Mike. Better be, anyway.

We see you waving.

11, Houston. That's really a beautiful shot.

11, Houston. We didn't quite decipher that signal that just came from the CMP.

Just saying hello. On the LCG sight gage, you got about—oh, it looks like the white mark that's in the plunger is about a quarter to three-eighths inch out into the green away from the red. Is that what you'd like to see? Over.

Stand by. Roger, Buzz. That looks good to us. Thank you much.

It is the white index, is it not, that you're interested in comparing whether it's in the red or green?

Stand by. That's affirmative, Buzz. It looks good. That's a good reading for us. Over.

Okay.

We had a shot moment—a moment ago of the suit disconnect valve.

I'll open up the windows and see what the lighting condition's going to be like.

11, Houston. That's a real good view we have of the AOT. You're back now, Buzz, and notice you're taking down one of the window shades. Over.

The light is superb.

How's the Sun coming in? How's the Sun coming in from this direction going to affect what you can see?

It made it really super. The lighting is excellent in the—in the LM right now. We can make out the AOT, the ISA, and the left-hand window—there's a little glare off of that, but the LMP side the—with the shade down it's really excellent. Over.

Well, let's—I'm turned around, why I took the shade off my side first.

Roger. We copy. The light level for the TV is really excellent. Over.

Yes, the lighting in the LM is very nice now, just like completely daylight; and everything is visible. A good bit lighter than the tunnel was earlier.

Roger. We got a good view now, Neil, of the DEDA; and also Buzz's ACA.

Hey, I'm pointing it at the front hatch now. Everything seems to be in place down there.

Roger, we got the dump valves in view. Over.

Roger.

11, Houston. We see you removing the ISA now, folding it up, putting it up on the AOT. The instrument panels are coming into view behind.

Yes, I think it'd probably be best, since we've done SPS burn, to put it back over the instrument panel instead of putting it up over the PLSS on the recharge station. Would you care to comment on that one? We could do either just as easily.

Stand by. We'll have an answer for you momentarily.

11, Houston. That's really a super shot of the main display.

The vehicle is surprisingly free of any debris floating around. It's very clean.

Roger.

11, Houston. It's pretty hard to describe this view. It's really—really great.

Now you know how we feel.

Roger.

Apollo 11, Houston. Buzz, it appears that you're intending to put on the Sun filter and view the Sun through the AOT. Over.

Yes, unfortunately it looks like it's down a little bit more towards … than I can be able to see in the AOT.

Roger.

We got a beautiful view of the side of the command module out of the AOT looking in the left rear detent.

Roger.

I can see the hatch and all the—all the EVA handrails. First time we've seen the silvery outside of the command module.

I can read the letters on the hatch cover. It's a boost cover release; and the big yellow arrow that points toward the opening—place where the tool B goes.

Roger. Great shot now back down into the -

And left on the —

Go ahead, Buzz. Over.

Say again.

I was just saying we got a great shot looking back into the command module.

…

Okay. And the left detent, I can see the AO—or the rendezvous radar, and I move to the forward detent and that's about all I've got. I'm looking eyeball to eyeball.

Roger.

Charlie, is there any concern about the duration that we ought to have the window shades open?

Stand by.

We don't have—We don't have any circulation in here, and it might get a little on the warm side.

Roger.

We'll—We'll put up a couple of hoses in the command module here and get a little circulation going.

Sounds like a good idea. Over.

Apollo 11, Houston. As far as the window shades go in this LM, there's nothing except for crew comfort. I don't think we've got any systems problem. Be sure to put them back up when you egress. Over.

That we will do.

Charlie, I'll give you a view out of the overhead window, back looking at the command module right-hand rendezvous window.

Roger.

Well, we see it now. Thanks a lot, Buzz. That's a good view through the overhead.

One washer on -

One washer's on by the overhead.

Roger.

There we go. We got it now.

There wasn't very much debris in the command module or the LM. We found very few loose particles of bolts, nuts, and screws and lint and things. Very few in each spacecraft. They were very clean.

Roger. Sounds good.

11, Houston. We have a good view out of the rendezvous—correction, the overhead window of the LM. We don't see anybody staring back at us, though. Over.

Charlie, can you see Mike's two eyeballs staring out through the rendezvous window?

11, Houston. Stand by. We haven't picked him up yet.

You are looking through a lot of layers of glass.

11, Houston. We had a —

… on my monitor.

We had a slight glimpse of Mike in the rendezvous window at that time. It's pretty murky looking into there, though.

Okay. Here he is; I've got him. I've got, him on the monitor now.

Okay. We see him staring back at us now. Hello, in there.

Apollo 11, Houston. Our recommendation for the ISA is to stow it back over the instrument panel. Over.

Roger. Will do.

11, Houston. We can make out the markings on the panel. We read SYSTEM A ASCENT FUEL, ASCENT OXIDIZER. Quad 1, quad 4. The—It's really unbelievable, the definition we're getting down here off that little camera. Over.

We can even see the barber pole on the talkbacks.

We can read the markings on the instruments for the glycol pressure, quantity, PCO₂. You can even read the scale on the eight ball. Over.

11, Houston. We see the cross-feed barber pole, and we have the Velcro patches back up to the RCS systems now. We can see the markings on the meters, green and red bands, in limits.

We see you raised the cover on the abort stage. We don't recommend that.