Spacelog Apollo 11

Houston, Apollo 11. Checklist page F9 7; I've completed step 8, and I'd like to know what you think is ideal timing between step 8, step 9, and step 10 on that page? Over.

Roger. Stand by.

Apollo 11, Houston. We don't see any time constraint. We'd like you to go ahead and set up the wide deadband and then go through step 10 and 11. Over.

Okay. Will do. I don't see any constraint here, Charlie. I was just checking to make sure, because last time, I went from 8 to 9 to 10 to 11 a little bit more swiftly than I'd been doing in the past.

Roger.

Step 11 complete.

Roger. We copy.

Apollo 11, Houston. Would you please select OMNI Bravo? Over.

Roger. Bravo.

Houston, Apollo 11. How do you read on Bravo?

Roger. Reading you five-by.

Same here.

Apollo 11, Houston. Looks like we've got a good PTC going. It's good night from the White Team. Over.

Houston, Apollo 11.

Go ahead, 11. Over.

Do you have any idea where the S IVB is with respect to us?

Apollo 11, Houston. The S IVB is about 6000 nautical miles from you now. Over.

Okay. Thank you.

Houston, Apollo 11. How's the PTC looking?

Stand by.

11, Houston. The PTC looks great to us. Over.

Hey, do you have any idea what happened to the previous one?

We have absolutely no idea. Over.

Okay. Did, it look like it was all right, then just all of a sudden start diverging?

That's negative, Mike. If you'll look at the plot, which we'll save for you and let you see it postflight, it started off immediately on the first REV and just spiraled out to about—oh 20 to—20 degrees in pitch, and then it seemed to be setting up a spiral around an offset pitch point of about 20 degrees off from 90 degrees; but we didn't want to take a chance that it would become stable at that point. We thought it might diverge, and so we called you and started over again. Over.

Okay, no complaints. I was just curious as to what had happened.

Houston, Apollo 11.

Goddard voice, Houston COMM TECH. Goss conference.

You're loud and clear. How me?

Roger. Read you the same.

Madrid, Houston COMM TECH. Net 1, voice check.

Houston COMM TECH, Madrid. I read you loud and clear.

Roger. Read you loud and clear also.

Hello, Houston. Apollo 11.

Apollo 11, Houston. Good morning.

Good morning. Are you planning a midcourse correction 4 this morning?

That's negative. Midcourse number 4 is not required. We were going to let you sleep in until about 71 hours if you'd like to turn over.

Okay. That'll be fine.

Okay. I'll see you at 71 hours.

Roger.

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

Good morning again, Houston. Apollo 11.

Roger 11. Good morning. When you —

Would you like the O₂ purge this morning?