Spacelog Apollo 11

Apollo 11, Houston. Five minutes until LOS. And with respect to your request for the nitrogen bottle pressures preburn, just before the burn, we were showing 2270 pounds per square inch on bottle Alfa and 2350 on bottle Bravo. Over.

Apollo 11. Roger. Thank you.

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Two minutes to LOS. Your AOS on the other side is 80 33 21, and the friendly White Team will see you when you come out from behind the Moon.

Apollo 11. Roger.

Thank you, Bruce.

Make that your friendly “Greens”. Your friendly White Team CAP COMM will see you when you come out from behind the Moon. I think it's basically the Maroon Team here, and we “Greenies” are leaving.

Okay. I don't blame you, Hank.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We're standing by. Over.

VGY minus 0.0, VGZ minus 0.1, DELTA-VC minus 5.2, fuel 362, OX 364, unbalance plus 50, and our postburn now 94's, 66.1 by 54.4. Go ahead.

Roger. We copy, Neil. Would you say again the DELTA-VZ? We missed that. Over.

Roger. That was minus 0.1.

Roger. Copy the burn report. Sounds good.

And all looked good up here.

Apollo 11, Houston. We missed your DELTA-TIG and also your DELTA burn time. Over.

DELTA-TIG was zero and the burn time was 17 seconds.

Copy 17.

Apollo 11, Houston. We'll be satisfied if you pump up the cabin to 5.4. Over.

Okay. We're showing about 5.2 right now.

Roger.

And, Charlie, the LM/CM DELTA-P is just over 1 pound right now.

Apollo 11, Houston. Over.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. Over.

Apollo 11, Houston. If you read, please attempt to acquire on the high gain. We're having trouble locking up on the TM and we have no voice. Over.

Hello, Apollo 11, Apollo 11.

Roger.

Roger. We're reading you five by. Go ahead. Over.

Roger. We have you on high gain now.

Roger. We lost the TM and the voice for about 5 minutes here. We attempted a handover and fouled it up in some manner, but we got you back now. Thank you much.

Okay. We're pressurizing the LM at this time.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We have a P22 AUTO optics update for you if you're ready to copy. Over.

Ready to copy.

Roger, Mike. It's landmark Alfa 1: T1, 82 37 35; T2, 82 42 50. We're 7 miles north. Over.

Copy. P22: T1, time 82 37 35; T2, 82 42 50. And the target is 7 miles north. Thank you.

I get the distinct impression, Charlie, that mare there laps up over the edge of the mountains at the shorelines.

Roger. We copy.

Houston. On your comment about the mare lapping up to the terrain—mountainous terrain, is that an impression like a lava flow coming in around a prominence, Neil, or is it more -looks like it's sloping up at that point? Over.

It isn't true everywhere, but there's certainly places where there seems to be a slope downward towards the shoreline on the mare. In other words, from the mare down to the shoreline is a downward slope indicating that it might be a lava flow.

Roger.

Crossing Duke Island and Maskelyne W.

Say again, Neil. Over.

We just crossed Duke Island and Maskelyne W.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We're wondering if you've started into the LM yet. Over.

We have the CSM hatch out, the drogue and probe removed and stowed, and we're just about ready to open the LM hatch now.

Okay, Charlie. We're in the LM. The docking index mark is the same.

Roger. We copy.

Charlie, apparently there just doesn't seem to be any slow way to get that REPRESS to AUTO without making a big bang.

Apollo 11, Houston. Say again. Over.

Roger. There just doesn't seem to be any slow way to get the REPRESS closed to AUTO and avoid a big bang. Over.

We copy, Buzz. Thank you much. Out.

We concur with that, Buzz.

Apollo 11, Houston. We'll have LOS 81 45, next AOS—Stand by.

Next AOS 82 32. Over.

Okay. 82 32.

Houston, Apollo 11. I am going to start a maneuver to P22 attitude at this time.

11. Roger. We copy. Over.

Okay. We're noticing some water inside the command module for the first time. There's a little puddle of it on the aft bulkhead sort of like 101 had.

Roger.

I'd like to know how EECOMM wants to get rid of it. There are a number of different ways and what does he think is the best one?

We'll be with you in a moment, Mike. Stand by.

No big rush. It will wait until the next REV or two.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We've played back the LOI 2 burn. It looks really good to us. The systems were all good. We got an orbit on the limited amount of tracking at 65.4 by a 53.9. Over.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We're standing by. Out.

Okay, Houston. We'll be done with P22 in just a couple of minutes.

Houston, Apollo 11.

Go ahead.

Roger. You copy that NOUN 49 on your downlink? If you've had enough time, I'll proceed.

Apollo 11, Houston. We see a NOUN 89. You can do the VERB 34 now. Over. Beat me to it.

Yes. I've done it, Charlie.

Roger.

Houston, Apollo 11.

Go ahead, 11. Over.

All that procedure for P22 seemed to work very well. The only thing that was a little odd, is that there was some DAP thruster activity. I had pitch in ACCEL COMMAND, and roll and yaw in RATE COMMAND, and somehow, roll and yaw got excited and the DAP went into a flurry of thruster firing. We've noticed the same thing in the CMS, and just written it off as a CMS peculiarity.

Roger. We saw that activity, Mike. We'll see if we can track it down and let you know. Over.

Okay.

Apollo 11, Houston. You can proceed to sleep attitude now. Over.

That's in work, Houston.

Okay.

Houston, we're holding inertial a little while to study the approach to the landing zone.

Houston, this is Apollo … in the Eagle—Apollo 11 in the Eagle. I've got … for our landing area.

Apollo 11, Houston. You are breaking up badly. Say again. Over.

Roger. I can see the entire landing area from the position I'm in looking out the left window in the LM.

Roger, Buzz. Understand you can see the entire landing area looking out the LM windows. Over.

That's right.

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Apollo 11, Houston. Say again. Over.

Apollo 11, Houston. We got a lot of noise on the downlink. Would you please try your high gain in wide beamwidth, and the angles are 180 the yaw and pitch zero. Over.

Houston, Apollo 11. How do you read us on the high gain? Over.

Roger, Mike. You're a lot better now. Over.

Okay. You want a wide beam for some reason?

That's affirmative. We got you in the shadows, though. You are looking right down along the engine bell towards the Earth so we need you in wide beam. Over.

Okay. Fine. We're starting our maneuvers to sleep attitude. Roll 82, pitch 229, yaw zero.

Houston, 11.

Go ahead, 11. Over.

Okay. We are on page activation 12 and 13, step 4, and verify descent talkbacks gray, and they're barberpole.

Roger. Stand by.

Apollo 11, Houston. We would like you to take the low voltage taps OFF; RESET, then ON. Over.

Stand by. We got it. We just had one circuit breaker out of position.

Okay.

We have them gray now.

… should have warmed up by now.

Oh, he's transmitting on B.

Hey, Mike, you transmitting on B?

Houston, Apollo 11—Apollo 11/Eagle. Over.

Roger, Eagle. This is Houston. We read you. Over.

Roger. I read you about four by four. Could you give me a short count, please?

Roger, Eagle. Coming in with the short count—1, 2, 3, 4, 5; 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Houston out. Over.

Roger. Are you copying my low bit rate? Over.

Roger. We got some beautiful data here, Eagle. We're—All those guys are looking at it—systems guys. We'll have some word for you in a minute how everything looks.

Roger. I'm all ready to switch to high bit rate if that's okay with you.

Would you please stand by, Eagle. We want to get to the proper sleep attitude before we proceed on with the COMM check. Over.

Standing by.

Houston, Eagle. We'll go ahead with the camera checkout. I'm still on low taps, and I assume there's no problem doing that. Over.

Stand by.

That's affirmative. No problem on that, Eagle. You can go ahead and power up the sequence camera. Over.

Should have done that before.

Eagle, be advised—sounds like a hot mike. Over.

Right. Yes.

Roger. If you're reading me now, I am in hot mike because I'm in ICS push to talk, and DOWNVOICE BACKUP. Over.

Roger. We just wanted to remind you. Over.

Thank you.

Columbia, this is Houston. Are you maneuvering to sleep attitude? Over.

Eagle, this is Houston. We have lost all the voice and data with Columbia. Would you see if he is maneuvering to sleep attitude? Over.

Hey, Mike. You maneuvering to sleep attitude?

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I don't believe they can hear you, Mike. Are you maneuvering now to sleep attitude?

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Houston, Eagle. The Columbia has maneuvered to sleep attitude. He's got the high gain antennas—antenna angles set in, and he should be communicating with you. Over.

Roger. We don't have him. Stand by.

Eagle, Houston. Would you please have Columbia put in COMMAND RESET? Over.

Wilco. COMMAND RESET.

Eagle, Houston. Since we're in sleep attitude, I'll give you another long count. If you're reading in this mode, we'd like you to switch to high bit rate. Over.

Roger. Go ahead with your short count.

Roger. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. We're reading you five by. You can go to high bit rate now. Over.

Roger. Going to high bit rate now.