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03 04 15 47
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston. Do you read? Over.
03 04 15 59
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston. Do you read? Over.
03 04 16 11
Unidentified crew member: …
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Unidentified crew member: Houston, Apollo 11. Over.
03 04 17 00
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston. We are reading you weakly. Go ahead. Over.
03 04 17 08
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger. Burn status report follows. DELTA-TIG zero, burn time 557, … VGX minus O.1, VGY minus 0.1, VGZ plus 0.1, DELTA-VC minus 0.390, fuel, plus 3 … 42. Over.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): 11, this is Houston. These residuals, do you have minus 0.1?
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Unidentified crew member: … VGX minus 0.1, VGY minus 0.1, VGZ 1.1, and a burn time of 5 plus 57. Stand by, maybe the COMM will improve a little bit. Over.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, this is Houston. Are you in the process of acquiring data on the burn? Over.
03 04 21 37
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston. How do you read?
03 04 21 43
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Reading you loud and clear, Houston. How us?
03 04 21 46
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. Reading you the same, now. Could you repeat your burn status report? We copied the residuals and burn time, and that was about it. Send the whole thing again, please.
03 04 21 56
Neil Armstrong (CDR): It was like—like perfect! DELTA-TIG zero, burn time 557, shaft value on the angles, VGX minus 0.1, VGY minus 0.1, VGZ plus 0.1, no trim, minus 6.8 on DELTA-VC, fuel was 38.8, LOX 39.0, plus 50 on balance, and we ran an increase on the PUGS, NOUN 44 showed us in a 60.9 by 169.9.
03 04 22 35
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. We copy your burn status report. And the spacecraft is looking good to us on telemetry.
03 04 22 47
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Everything looks good up here.
03 04 34 34
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Apollo 11 is getting its first view of the landing approach. This time we are going over the Taruntius crater, and the pictures and maps brought back by Apollo 8 and 10 have given us a very good preview of what to look at here. It looks very much like the pictures, but like the difference between watching a real football game and watching it on TV. There's no substitute for actually being here.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. We concur, and we surely wish we could see it firsthand, also.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP): We're going over the Messier series of craters right at the time, looking vertically down on them, and Messier A we can see good sized blocks in the bottom of the crater. I don't know what our altitude is now, but in any case, those are pretty good size blocks.
03 04 35 56
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Okay. Just roughly, it looks like you are about 120 miles or 130 miles right now—make that 127 miles.
03 04 37 12
Neil Armstrong (CDR): We're approaching PDI point now. Over.
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Neil Armstrong (CDR): There's Secchi in sight.
03 04 37 48
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): We're going over Mount Marilyn at the present time, and it's ignition point.
03 04 37 55
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. Thank you. And our preliminary tracking data for the first few minutes shows you in a 61.6 by 169.5 orbit. Over.
03 04 38 10
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): And Jim is smiling.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over.
03 04 41 35
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Go ahead.
03 04 41 37
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. During your SPS burn as played back on tape down here, we've observed the nitrogen tank Bravo pressure in the SPS system dropping a little bit more than we anticipated. It's holding steady right now. We'll continue to watch it and keep you posted if anything comes up. Over.
03 04 42 03
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger. Thank you.
03 04 42 04
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Right. And it has held steady —
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Neil Armstrong (CDR): Currently going over Maskelyne Mas -
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Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay.
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Neil Armstrong (CDR): And Boothill, Duke Island, Sidewinder, looking at Maskelyne W, that's the yaw round checkpoint, and just coming into the terminator. At the terminator it's ashen and gray. As you get further away from the terminator, it gets to be a lighter gray, and as you get closer to the subsolar point, you can definitely see browns and tans on the ground, according to the last Apollo 11 observation anyway.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger, 11. We're recording your comments for posterity.
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Neil Armstrong (CDR): (Laughter) Okay.
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Michael Collins (CMP): Did somebody in the background—do they accuse us of being compromisers? Huh!
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Neil Armstrong (CDR): And landing site is well into the dark here. I don't think we're going to be able to see anything of the landing site this early.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, this is Houston. When you have a free minute, could you give us your onboard readout of N₂ tank Bravo, please. And we'd like to make sure you understand that ever since you stopped thrusting with the SPS, the temperature in this tank has remained steady. Over. Make that the pressure has remained steady.
03 04 44 07
Michael Collins (CMP): Roger. We understand tank pressure has stayed steady. Thank you.
03 04 44 12
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. We're showing the N₂ tank pressure and the tank Bravo to he 1960, something like that, and Alfa is, oh, about 2250. Over.
03 04 44 34
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. We show 2249 in Alfa and 1946 down here.
03 04 44 44
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): All right.
03 04 53 19
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston, Apollo 11. How about coming up with some roll, pitch, and yaw angles in which to stop this so called ORB RATE that I'm doing.
03 04 53 28
Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. Standby.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): We'll have them for you in a minute, 11.
03 04 53 51
Michael Collins (CMP): Okay. And time to stop also, please.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Yes, indeed.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over.
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Neil Armstrong (CDR): Go ahead, Houston.
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Bruce McCandless (CAPCOM): Roger. We show you, in the flight plan, staying in orbital rate until about 79 hours 10 minutes. Do you have some particular attitude or reason for wanting to go inertial? Over.

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