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03 12 52 02
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. We're still unable to pick you up on the high gain antenna. Request you go to MANUAL, and wide beamwidth. The pitch and yaw angles in your checklist are good ones. You should be able to find us there. Over.
03 12 53 08
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Houston, Apollo 11. How do you read now?
03 12 53 10
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. Loud and clear this time. How me?
03 12 53 16
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Loud and clear. You faded out on your last transmission. Over.
03 12 53 21
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger. Are you in wide beam now?
03 12 53 29
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Negative. I got you locked back on again REACQ and narrow.
03 12 53 33
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger. That's all we want. We want to stay in narrow, and we're a little puzzled about why we lost you here a few minutes ago. Do you have any ideas?
03 12 53 48
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): No, we sure don't (cough)—sure don't. We're showing—we're showing about 15 degrees plus pitch and about 270. That ought to be good and clear.
03 12 54 00
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): We concur there. We still don't have any good ideas on why we were lost then.
03 12 54 38
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. Would you confirm that we did acquire automatically when you came around the limb for this passage. Over.
03 12 54 51
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): That's confirmed.
03 12 54 54
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Thank you.
03 13 04 38
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. Over.
03 13 04 44
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Houston, Apollo 11.
03 13 04 46
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. On your AUTO RCS SELECT switches, we show quad Bravo disabled but quad Charlie only partially disabled. Charlie 3, I believe, is the only one you have selected off. Is that correct?
03 13 05 05
Michael Collins (CMP): Yes. Roger. That's correct.
03 13 05 06
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger.
03 13 05 59
Michael Collins (CMP): How do they look to you now, Houston?
03 13 06 06
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. We see them all disabled at this time. Thank you.
03 13 06 15
Michael Collins (CMP): Thank you.
03 13 09 22
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. Over.
03 13 09 30
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Go ahead, Houston.
03 13 09 31
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. We're going to try to check out this ability to automatically reacquire on the S band, and what we want to do is to secure our uplink carrier for about 30 seconds. Then we will turn it back on and see if the spacecraft equipment will automatically reacquire. So if you do not get a call from us within about 3 minutes, that means we have not been able to reacquire and request your assistance on a manual acquisition. Over.
03 13 10 04
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. We understand.
03 13 10 11
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. We also would appreciate—if you will note the angles that the antenna tracks through in its attempt to reacquire. Over.
03 13 10 26
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. We'll do that.
03 13 13 28
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. It looks like we're locked back up again with no delay. How does it look on board? Over.
03 13 13 37
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. The signal strength dropped very rapidly to zero; and the pitch and yaw, in about 3 seconds, moved toward 40 degrees pitch and 240 degrees yaw. Right now, they're sitting on about 15 degrees pitch and about 265 degrees yaw. So they didn't move very far, about 30 degrees apiece; and then they picked right back on up again. Over.
03 13 14 19
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger. Some of “The Luckiest People” in the background there. We copied your pitch and yaw angles.
03 13 15 27
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. Could you give us the location of your—pitch and yaw location of your position indicators? Over.
03 13 15 39
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. They're in the same position as the antenna right now; plus 15 degrees pitch and—no, now wait a minute. I got them—got it at about 275 instead of 265.
03 13 15 57
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Okay. Thank you.
03 13 16 23
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. We'd like to try the same procedure once more. We'll leave the carrier a little longer and be back up for a call within 4 minutes. Over.
03 13 16 35
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay.
03 13 20 07
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. We're locked back up again. Can you give us a report on how the antenna behaved?
03 13 20 24
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. It was essentially identical as before. The pitch went to 45, 40 to 45 and the yaw went to about—to about 255, 245 to 255; and then it rather quickly locked up at 15 degrees pitch and 270 yaw. Over.
03 13 20 49
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. Roger. Your angles are 45 and 255. Do I understand that as soon as the carrier dropped, it went to these angles; or did it only go to these angles after the uplink carrier was reenabled and the antenna began to reacquire? Over.
03 13 21 12
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): No. As soon as the carrier dropped off, why, it drifted over into those angles and stayed there. Then when it came back up again, why, it hunted around for a while, but it didn't get any further off. Gradually brought it on in to the angles where it is right now; and then the signal strength would take several jumps as evidently it goes from wide to medium to narrow. Over.
03 13 21 38
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. Understand. And on another subject, request you zero your optics for the night. Over.
03 13 21 58
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. Zeroed.
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03 13 27 46
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. Can you confirm that you have changed the CO₂ filter as per flight plan in the last hour? Over?
03 13 28 01
Michael Collins (CMP): No. We're still eating. We're about to do it. We'll let you know.
03 13 28 04
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger, 11. And we've got about 14 minutes until LOS. AOS is 86 30, an hour away. We're wondering whether or not you plan to have one man up at that time or would you all like to be asleep inside the next hour? Over.
03 13 28 25
Michael Collins (CMP): Somebody will be up.
03 13 28 27
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger. The thing that we're still puzzling on is the antenna, and if—as long as there will be somebody up, why, we would like to have somebody check the automatic REACQ on the next AOS.
03 13 28 42
Michael Collins (CMP): Okay. We'll do that. We haven't chlorinated the water yet, and we haven't changed the lithium hydroxide. We're just still finishing up dinner.
03 13 28 49
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger, Mike. Thank you.
03 13 40 07
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. We have LOS coming up in 2 minutes now, and AOS will be at 86 plus 28 plus 15. Over.
03 13 40 20
Neil Armstrong (CDR): We'll see you on the other side, Houston.
03 13 40 21
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger.
03 14 30 37
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston, Apollo 11. Over.
03 14 30 39
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. Loud and clear here. Over.
03 14 30 44
Michael Collins (CMP): Okay. We just appeared to get a solid lock for the last—oh, about a minute. The … needle's been wandering up and down, and the pitch and yaw needles have been wandering around, but it appears to have reacquired by itself solidly now. We're just finishing up our fuel cell purge. Hydrogen on number 3 is the last to go off. It'll be coming off in just a second.
03 14 31 09
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger, 11.
03 14 32 17
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. We believe we've tracked down the reacquisition problem we had on the previous REV. It looks like it was a receiver power supply here on the ground and no problems in the spacecraft at all. Over.
03 14 32 35
Michael Collins (CMP): Okay. Glad to hear it.
03 14 32 37
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, that really winds things up as far as we're concerned on the ground, for the evening. We're ready to go to bed and get a little sleep. Over.
03 14 32 49
Michael Collins (CMP): Yes. We're about to join you.
03 14 32 51
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger.; No contact for 6:59:48
03 21 32 39
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Apollo 11. Good morning from the Black Team.
03 21 33 01
Michael Collins (CMP): Good morning, Houston.
03 21 33 04
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Good morning. We got about 2 minutes to LOS here, Mike.
03 21 33 12
Michael Collins (CMP): … You guys wake up early.
03 21 33 15
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): (Laughing) Yes, you're about 2 minutes early on the wakeup. Looks like you were really sawing them away.
03 21 33 23
Michael Collins (CMP): You're right.
03 21 33 44
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. For planning purposes, you can go ahead and take the monocular into the LM with you.
03 21 33 56
Michael Collins (CMP): Okay. I'll tell them. How are all the CSM systems looking?
03 21 34 06
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. Looks like the command module's in good shape. Black Team has been watching it real closely for you.
03 21 34 17
Michael Collins (CMP): We sure appreciate that. Because I sure haven't.
03 21 34 27
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Say again.
03 21 34 34
Michael Collins (CMP): I say because I sure have not.
03 21 34 37
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger.
03 21 35 01
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Apollo 11. Thirty seconds. AOS will be 94 plus 21.
03 21 35 11
Michael Collins (CMP): 94 21.
03 22 22 17
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. Standing by.
03 22 23 04
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Houston, Apollo 11.
03 22 23 06
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. Go.
03 22 23 11
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. How do you read the BIOMED in the LMP with the LCG on? Over.
03 22 23 17
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. Stand by, 11.
03 22 23 47
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. We have good data on all 3 crewmen. No. Belay that. The Commander we do not have yet.
03 22 24 00
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. He's not up yet.
03 22 50 00
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Houston, Apollo 11. We just had a very good view of the landing site. We can pick out almost all of the features we've identified previously.
03 22 50 10
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. Roger. Sounds real fine. And, 11, I have your maneuver PAD and consumables update whenever you want them.
03 22 50 30
Unidentified crew member: Stand by.
03 22 50 34
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Stand by a little, please.
03 22 50 37
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. We're standing by. And that's the block data on the maneuver PAD, by the way.
03 22 52 39
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston, Apollo 11 is a couple of minutes away from this rolling right 40 degrees to roll 122, pitch 229, yaw 0. Over.
03 22 52 48
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. Roger. We're standing by.
03 22 54 04
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston, Apollo 11. Ready to copy.
03 22 54 08
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. Apollo 11, Houston. Here's your block data, TEI 30. Over.
03 22 54 20
Michael Collins (CMP): Ready to copy.
03 22 54 22
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): SPS/G&N: 36639; your NOUN 48, minus 072, plus 051; your NOUN 33, 135 24 4000; NOUN 81, plus 32178, plus 06036, minus 01304, your pitch 064. The rest is NA. Ullage: two jet, 16 seconds; and it's based on LOI REFSMMAT. Over.
03 22 55 49
Michael Collins (CMP): Roger. TEI 30 SPS/G&N: 36639 minus 072, plus 051, 135 24 4000, plus 32178, plus 06036, minus 01304, pitch 064, two jets 16 second, LOI REFSMMAT. Over.
03 22 56 15
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. Readback correct. Your consumables update?
03 22 56 36
Michael Collins (CMP): Yes. Go ahead.
03 22 56 37
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. GET 91 plus 30, minus 7 percent; Alfa minus 8, Bravo minus 2.5, Charlie minus 10, Delta minus 6.5. H₂ total, minus 2 pounds; oxygen total, plus 9 pounds. Over.
03 22 57 18
Michael Collins (CMP): Okay. Thank you. And on board, we're reading for quad Alfa 75 percent, Bravo 78, Charlie 78, and Delta 77 percent.
03 22 57 37
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. We copy.
03 22 57 49
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. I have your base line altitude update now, if Buzz is ready to copy.
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Unidentified crew member: …
03 22 58 02
Michael Collins (CMP): Go ahead.
03 22 58 04
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. Alfa 1 is 500, that's 500 feet above the landing site. Over.
03 22 58 23
Michael Collins (CMP): Okay. Alfa 1 is 500 feet above the landing site. Thank you.
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03 22 58 51
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston, Apollo 11. Our crew status report for sleep: CDR 5.5, CMP 6.0, LMP 5.0. Over.
03 22 59 02
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. Roger. We have that now.
03 23 16 09
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. Over.
03 23 16 16
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Houston, Apollo 11. Go ahead.
03 23 16 18
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. The “Black Bugle” just arrived with some morning news briefs if you're ready.
03 23 16 28
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Go ahead.
03 23 16 30
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger.
03 23 16 31
Michael Collins (CMP): …
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Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Okay. Church services around the world today are mentioning Apollo 11 in their prayers. President Nixon's worship service at the White House is also dedicated to the mission, and our fellow astronaut, Frank Borman, is still in there pitching and will read the passage from Genesis which was read on Apollo 8 last Christmas. The Cabinet and members of Congress, with emphasis on the Senate and House space committees, have been invited, along with a number of other guests. Buzz, your son, Andy, got a tour of MSC yesterday. Your Uncle Bob Moon accompanied him on the visit which included the LRL. Among the —
03 23 17 27
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): — Thank you.
03 23 17 28
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. Among the large headlines concerning Apollo this morning, there's one asking that you watch for a lovely girl with a big rabbit. An ancient legend says a beautiful Chinese girl called Chang-o has been living there for 4000 years. It seems she was banished to the Moon because she stole the pill of immortality from her husband. You might also look for her companion, a large Chinese rabbit, who is easy to spot since he is always standing on his hind feet in the shade of a cinnamon tree. The name of the rabbit is not reported.
03 23 18 15
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. We'll keep a close eye out for the bunny girl.
03 23 18 19
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. You residents of the spacecraft Columbia may be interested in knowing that today is Independence Day in the country of Colombia. Gloria Diaz of the Philippines was crowned Miss Universe last night. She defeated 60 other girls for the global beauty title. Miss Diaz is 18, with black hair and eyes, and measures 34-1/2, 23, 34-1/2. First runner up was Miss Australia, followed by Miss Israel, and Miss Japan. While you're on your way back Tuesday night, the American and National League Allstars will be playing ball in Washington. Mel Stottlemyre of the Yankees is expected to be the American League's first pitcher. No one is predicting who will be first pitcher for the National League yet. They have nine on the roster. Even though research has certainly paid off in the space program, research doesn't always pay off, it seems. The Woodstream Corporation, parent company of the Animal Trap Company of America which has made more than a billion wooden spring mousetraps, reports that it built a better mousetrap but the world didn't beat a door to its path—didn't beat a path to its door. As a matter of fact, the company had to go back to the old-fashioned kind. They said, “We should have spent more time researching housewives and less time researching mice”. And the “Black Beag—Bugle” is all completed for the morning.
03 23 20 47
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Thank you very much. We appreciate the news.
03 23 21 21
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Black Team, we'll be looking for an interesting day with you all tomorrow.
03 23 21 27
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. We'll be going off here shortly, and we'll pick you up in the morning for sure.
03 23 30 15
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Apollo 11, Houston. Three minutes to LOS; AOS at 96 plus 20.
03 23 30 27
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Apollo 11. 96 20. Thank you.
04 00 21 24
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Hello, Columbia. Houston. Do you read? Over.
04 00 21 58
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Hello, Houston, this is Eagle. How do you read? Over.
04 00 22 03
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Eagle, this is Houston. Are you calling? Over.
04 00 22 08
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. How do you read? Over.
04 00 22 11
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Roger. Reading you about three by, Buzz; a lot of noise on the loop. We think it's coming from Columbia, but we can't tell. We're unable to raise voice with him. Would he please go to high gain. Over.
04 00 22 26
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. I'll have him go to high gain. It's probably the glycol pump you hear in the background, and I'm up to the point where I turn on the IMU. Would you recommend I hold off here for a few minutes or go ahead and power up the IMU? Over.
04 00 22 41
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Roger. Stand by.
04 00 22 42
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Hey, get your high gain to working.
04 00 22 46
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston.
04 00 23 06
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Eagle, this is Houston. You can turn on the IMU. Over.
04 00 23 14
Unidentified crew member: …
04 00 23 21
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston, this is Columbia.
04 00 23 31
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Columbia, this is Houston. Do you read? Over.
04 00 23 37
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston …
04 00 24 44
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Hello, Eagle. This is Houston. We've got a noisy downlink on the downvoice backup. Would you please select S band voice to VOICE? Over.
04 00 25 50
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Columbia, this is Houston. Do you read? Over.
04 00 25 57
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston, Columbia. Reading you loud and clear. How me?
04 00 26 00
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Roger. About three by, Mike. We've got a lot of noise in the background. It's clearing up now. Break. Eagle, Houston. Do you read? Over.
04 00 26 12
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Houston, Eagle. About four by four. Go ahead.
04 00 26 15
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Roger. Just getting a voice check. Say the page you're on in the activation checklist. Over.
04 00 26 24
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. I'm on page 27. Over.
04 00 26 27
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand 27. We copy. Out.
04 00 27 07
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Columbia, this is Houston. Would you please give us P00 in ACCEPT. We have a state vector for you. Over.
04 00 27 15
Michael Collins (CMP): Stand by one.
04 00 28 21
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston, Columbia. You have P00 in ACCEPT, and how are you reading me now?
04 00 28 26
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand, we have P00 in ACCEPT. You're about three by in—on the voice, Mike. Over.
04 00 28 35
Michael Collins (CMP): Okay. You're coming in loud and clear, and I'm configured for normal voice. If you've got any switch changes, let me know.
04 00 28 42
Charlie Duke (CAPCOM): Roger. We've got some noise somewhere in the system down here, I think. We're working on it. And I've got a 130 landmark update for you, and also a DAP load whenever you're ready to copy. Over.
04 00 28 59
Michael Collins (CMP): Stand by one.

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