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03 11 31 50
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Roger, 11. And we'd like you to do a waste water dump at 84 hours down to 25 percent. Over.
03 11 32 06
Michael Collins (CMP): Roger. I understand. Waste water dump to 25 percent at 84 hours.
03 11 32 10
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Roger. And, Mike, we'll have LOS in about 11 minutes at 83 44. AOS is 84 30, and prior to—or at LOS, we would like you to go—Configure the S band for high gain track to REACQ, high gain beam to NARROW, and let's try that to see if we can get an automatic REACQ at the next AOS. Over.
03 11 32 43
Michael Collins (CMP): Good idea.
03 11 32 51
Michael Collins (CMP): I'm in REACQ and NARROW now.
03 11 32 54
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. Also, that water that you got on the aft bulkhead, we—If it's not too much, we just recommend sopping it up and then throwing the sponges away in the waste stowage area. If it's too much, then we recommend using the procedure in the checklist on page F10-14. Over.
03 11 33 58
Michael Collins (CMP): All right. Thank you.
03 11 37 25
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. Would you have Buzz make sure he gives us the OPS pressure readings before you close up? Over.
03 11 37 35
Michael Collins (CMP): Will do.
03 11 38 01
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Houston, 11. The OPS read 5750, both bottles.
03 11 38 05
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Roger.
03 12 31 12
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. Over.
03 12 31 20
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston, Apollo 11.
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Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. Roger. Reading you fine, and it looks like the automatic REACQ went very well just as soon as you came around the limb. We have several small items to discuss with you here just before you go to sleep. Over.
03 12 31 29
Michael Collins (CMP): Go ahead. Over.
03 12 31 40
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Okay, 11. First of all, on our LM systems checks, everything went fine. I would like to remind you, though, tomorrow you may see an ascent pressure light when you activate the MC&W. There should be no problem, however. You did note that the APS AUX tank pressure was only reading 111 psi, which is normal at this point, but below the level which will trigger your light due to the helium which has been dissolved into the propellant. Over.
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Michael Collins (CMP): Roger. Understand that. Thank you.
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Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger. And next item, the supercritical helium rise rate is nominal, and you also had that question for us about your thruster activity during the P22 on the last REV. Believe we understand that now, as you reported that your pitch was in ACCEL COMMAND and your yaw and roll were in RATE COMMAND. You were firing your pitch thrusters. This will couple rates into your yaw and roll axes, and the—You were at that time holding only half a degree deadband and coupling rates into yaw and roll produced the extra firings about the yaw and roll axes. Over.
03 12 33 07
Michael Collins (CMP): Yes. That may be true. It's very peculiar coupling, in that it waits longer than you would think and its reaction is greater than you would think. We were getting yaw rates of around four tenths of a degree per second, for example.
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Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger, Mike. We did play the data back, and that's the way it looked upon analysis of the chart recordings back here. Over.
03 12 33 35
Michael Collins (CMP): Okay. Fine.
03 12 33 36
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): They've also looked at the results of your landmark tracking. The marks all apparently were very good, and we've got a full page of data here relative to the altitudes of the various site locations, which I won't read up to you, but I did want to let you know that the marks apparently went very well. I also have your consumable budgets, particularly your RCS propellant quantities. They're Deltas from nominal if you should want them. Your worst quad is quad Charlie, which is 9 percent low. I'll not read up the others unless you want them. Over.
03 12 34 17
Michael Collins (CMP): Okay. How about the O₂ fuel cell purge? You want that now?
03 12 34 22
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): I'll have to stand by just a moment.
03 12 34 26
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. And then the other one is, we're still charging battery A.
03 12 35 28
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. We would like to delay the fuel cell purge until the backside of the Moon, and you go ahead and—should terminate your battery charge at this time. Over.
03 12 35 43
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. Understand. I knew we had another O₂ and H₂ purge coming up in the morning; I wasn't sure whether you wanted to go through with this one or not. I'll wait until the next side and then do it.
03 12 35 53
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): That's fine, Buzz.
03 12 35 54
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Terminate battery charging now.
03 12 35 56
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): That's right, and one other systems item here—in order to balance your CRYO tanks, would you get your O₂ tank 1 and your H 2 tank 2 heaters off? Over.
03 12 36 16
Michael Collins (CMP): Okay. I have O₂ tank heater 1 off, and H₂ tank heater 2 off.
03 12 36 25
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): That's right, Mike, and we believe you have your quad Bravo and quad Charlie turned off in your DAP at this time, and a 5 degree deadband. We'd prefer a 10 degree deadband for your sleep period overnight here. Over.
03 12 36 43
Michael Collins (CMP): Okay.
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Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): One other item relative to a malfunction procedure. It's unlikely that you'll have to worry about this tomorrow, but in your malfunction list under docking on page F11 9, there is a malfunction procedure for a high O₂ flow rate at the top of—under tunnel at the top of page 11 9. We would like to have you not use that malfunction procedure should you encounter the high O₂ flow rate, and instead, check back with Houston for a revised procedure should you find that situation. Over.
03 12 37 38
Michael Collins (CMP): Understand, and note has been made in my checklist.
03 12 37 45
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. Roger. That just about takes care of all the items we have here on the ground before time to hit the sack, and I guess you will have a presleep check for us before you go to bed.
03 12 38 06
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. We're in the midst of cycling the O₂ and H₂ fans now.
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Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger.
03 12 38 21
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): And the radiation is as follows: CDR 11012, CMP 10013, LMP 09015. Negative medication. Over.
03 12 38 36
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger. Copy, 11.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Houston, Apollo 11.
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Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. Go ahead.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. We're thinking about taking the monocular with us on into the LM. We think it might prove to be of some use. Over.
03 12 42 10
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger, Buzz. It sounds like a good idea for some of your surveying work there inside the cockpit. Over.
03 12 42 21
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. You want to run that by with whoever might be concerned?
03 12 42 24
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): I sure will.
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Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. We have apparently lost the high gain lock. We would appreciate it if you would give us a help manually to try to relock up on the high gain. Over.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Houston, Apollo 11. ..
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Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. Reading you very weak, still too far down in the noise to complete the full transmission. If you'd give us a hand on a manual relock, we'd appreciate it.

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