Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

We're going to go ahead and take all the Moon data on back into the command module, Charlie.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Roger. Great shot now back down into the -

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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

Michael Collins (CMP)

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

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Sounds like a good idea. Over.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

One washer's on by the overhead.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

There we go. We got it now.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

You are looking through a lot of layers of glass.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

11, Houston. We had a —

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

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

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

We can even see the barber pole on the talkbacks.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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.

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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

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

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Yes. We're going to tape that one over.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

We're going to tape that one over.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

The restraints in here do a pretty good job of pulling my pants down.

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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Roger. We haven't quite got that before the 50,000,000 TV audience, yet.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

11, Houston. That's a good view of the eight ball. We see—You can even read the OFF flag, there.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

You can see the signal strength meter for the radar, read the numbers on it.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Houston, did you want us to test the cameras in the LM and—I was wondering about that. I saw it in the flight plan, but I'm just wondering if you want to do that on CSM power, or do you want us to take both of the 16mm cameras back in the CSM and test them there? Over.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

As an alternative to that, why, we could wait LOI day and do it then when we transfer over to LM power.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Roger. Stand by. We'll have an answer.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

11, Houston. On that TV, our commentary—The monitor I was looking at was delayed about 12 seconds, 12 to 15 seconds while it went through our color converter. It was probably—You thought I was crazy, but we were looking at it 15 seconds after you broadcast it. 11, Houston —

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

We understood that, Charlie.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Okay. On the LM cameras, we'd like you to do it on LOI day with the LM power. Over.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Okay. That's what we'll do.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Houston, we're showing you something that came out of the Commander's checklist stowage packet. It's got a 16-millimeter camera in it, and it's got this little cylinder; and I guess—I don't understand what it is. Maybe you can tell us.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Roger. Stand by. We can't figure it out either.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

It's got an arrow on the back, and it says “turn,” but I'm afraid to turn it.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

11, your friendly geologist says it's the camera cank- crank, excuse me, for the 16-sequence camera if it jams. Over.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

All very well. Thank you.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

There's that word again. The ancillary stowage container.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

The shades couldn't quite hack it, there, Buzz. Over.

Michael Collins (CMP)

Houston, 11. Are you still getting high bit rate off the OMNI's at this distance?

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, Houston. About 50 percent of the time, we're getting high bit rate off the OMNI's when you're in PTC. Over.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, Houston. Neil, at this attitude you look like you're about 12 feet long.

Neil Armstrong (CDR)

It seems like I always find myself upside-down in whatever I'm doing around here.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Apollo 11, Houston. Could you give us a few comments on your crew comfort with the CSM hoses moving the air around? Over.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Well, it's picking up a little bit on circulation in here.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

What do you estimate the temperature is, Buzz? Over.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

Oh, I'd say maybe 73, 75.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

It's hard to tell at this density and pressure of gas, but comfort level is about the—about the same as the command module.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

It was a little warmer or stuffier when we first got in, but it seems to be improving.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

You may be able to see some —

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

— some particles jumping around on your screen. That's just dust particles that are being illuminated by Sun shafting in the window.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

Roger. They're very clear now. Over. And that's a good view of Neil's—correction, of Buzz's circuit breaker panel, there.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

I can just barely see the handrail on the front porch from the position on the right-hand window.

Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)

11, Houston. Our view of the Panel 11 is—gets brighter, then darker. Are you changing the f-stop at all? Over.

Buzz Aldrin (LMP)

No, what's happening is, we get pretty close to the window now and then, and it drives the automatic light control into the stop, I think.