Spacelog Apollo 11

Roger. I can imagine.

The traverse from the bottom of the LM to the aft bulkhead of the command module must be about 16, 20 feet. It's not a disorienting one at all, but it's most interesting to contemplate just pushing off from one and bounding on into the other vehicle all the way through the tunnel.

Roger. Must be some experience. Is Collins going to go in and look around?

We're willing to let him go but he hasn't come up with the price of the ticket yet.

Roger. I'd advise him to keep his hands off the switches.

If I can get him to keep his hands off my DSKY, it'd be a fair swap.

Roger.

That's why I've been eating so much today. I haven't had anything to do. He won't let me touch it any more.

Roger.

11, Houston. If that's not the Earth, we're in trouble.

That's the Earth, and we have a very good view of it today. There are a few more cloud bands on than yesterday when we beamed down to you, but it's a beautiful sight.

We have some horizontal banding in our TV monitor. Are we transmitting that to you, or do you have a clear picture?

Neil, we have a very clear picture. The only thing that we see is a little white dot in the bottom of our screen, which is—our TV guys say is an—apparently a burned out spot in the camera, but it should come back. Over.

Roger. We have that in our monitor also.

11, Houston. We do have three lines across our TV. I thought it was just a transmission problem, but everybody's telling me now that it's probably—it's on the downlink. Over.

No, those are the same three ones that we have.

Okay.

How far are—out are we now, Charlie?

Stand by. Give you exact figure.

Did you notice the difference between yesterday and today? This is as large an image we can—we can give you.

Roger. If you think we're smaller, you're now 177,000 miles out. Over.

Thank you.

That's nautical miles?

That's affirmative, 11. We -

… Hold on.

Go ahead. Over.

11, Houston. We see the—still see the banding along the intratropical convergence. I guess the most predominate one now is around the—up in the—around the equator or slightly north of the equator.

Yes, that's the way it looks, Charlie. Same as yesterday.

Roger.

Just keep the Pacific Ocean nice and clear and calm on splash day, is all we ask.

And Charlie, I'd like to say hello to all my fellow scouts and scouters at Farragut State Park in Idaho having a National Jamboree there this week; and Apollo 11 would like to send them best wishes.

Thank you, Apollo 11. I'm sure that, if they didn't hear that, they'll get the word through the news, surely appreciate that.

11, Houston. We have you—your subspacecraft point is just off the western coast of South America directly south of about Mexico City. Over.

That—That looks like what we observe from here.

And we're going to turn our TV monitor off now for a short bit while we have some other work to do. Apollo 11 signing off.

Roger, 11. Thank you very much. That was one of the greatest shows we've ever seen. We sure appreciate it. Over.

It was a pleasure.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. Could you give us an idea of about how long it will be before you start close—closing the LM back up? Over.

We've got a little more work to do up here, Charlie. We're going to make sure that we have everything transferred around and stowed the way we want it and try to get a little bit ahead on tomorrow's timeline. I suppose that we could be out of there in another half hour or so if it was necessary.

Roger, Neil. We're not trying to push you. We're just trying to get an idea of—about water dumps and starting up the PTC again. Take your sweet time. Over.

Okay. We'd like to get a flight plan update from you for the next couple of hours, here. When you think what the various constraints might be and what—what order you might like us to do things.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. Mike, we'd like to go ahead and do a waste-water dump. We'd like you to dump it all the way down to zero. Over.

Roger. We copy that, Charlie.

How does that work, Charlie?

Houston, 11.

11, Houston. Did you call? Over.

Roger. Just noticed that the mast that the EVA light is on is charred brown. It looks as though it took quite a beating during launch.

Roger.

The EVA light still does work.

Roger. We'll let this—the SPAN guys look at this, and we'll be back with you with what we think. Over.

Okay.

11, Houston. We were wondering, Neil, with your closing comment on the TV, if you were going to turn it off. It indicated that you might be considering turning it back on. We were wondering whether we want to keep the lines up. Over.

Well, we want your recommendation on that, but I think we would just as soon, ourselves, terminate the TV. But if you have a commitment to keep, we'd be more than willing to turn it back on.

Roger. Stand by.

Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like to terminate the TV. We don't—We think we got a really—a good tape. That hour and a half show was superb. And we'd like to pick up TV—correction—PTC at about 58 hours. Over.

Roger. PTC at 58 hours.