Spacelog Apollo 11

Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.

Thank you.

You're looking good here.

Okay. We're going to be busy for a minute.

MASTER ARM, ON. Take care of the … I'll get this …

Very smooth touchdown.

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Okay. It looks like we're venting the oxidizer now.

Roger, Eagle. And you are STAY for —

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— T1. Over. Eagle, you are STAY for T1.

Roger. Understand, STAY for T1.

Roger. And we see you venting the OX.

Roger.

… circuit breaker.

… copy NOUN 60, NOUN 43. Over.

Roger. We have it.

Houston, how do you read Columbia on the high gain?

Roger —

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— We read you five by, Columbia. He has landed, Tranquility Base. Eagle is at Tranquility. Over.

Yes. I heard the whole thing.

… good show.

Fantastic.

Engine STOP RESET.

Houston, Columbia went UPTELEMETRY COMMAND, RESET, to reacquire on the high gain.

Copy. Out.

Eagle, Houston. You loaded R2 wrong. We want 10254.

Roger.

And do you want V horizontal 5515.2?

That's affirmative.

Like—AGS to PGNS align.

Say again?

Like an AGS to PNGS align. Over.

Roger. We're standing by for it.

… quantity …

Eagle, Houston. You are STAY for T2. Over.

Correction, you're —

Roger. STAY for T2. We thank you.

Roger, sir.

Tranquility Base, Houston. We recommend you exit P12. Over.

Hey, Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The AUTO targeting was taking us right into a football field size—football field sized crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks for about … one or two crater diameters around it, and it required a … in P66 and flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.

Roger. We copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.

We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape, angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock you could find. The colors—Well, it varies pretty much depending on how you're looking relative to the zero-phase point. There doesn't appear to be too much of a general color at all. However, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders, of which there are quite a few in the near area, it looks as though they're going to have some interesting colors to them. Over.

That's confirmed by our local observation.

Roger.

And thanks for putting me on relay, Houston. I was missing all the action.

Roger. We'll enable MSFN relay.

I just got it, I think.

Roger, Columbia. This is Houston. Say something. They ought to be able to hear you. Over.

Roger, Tranquility Base. It sure sounded great from up here. You guys did a fantastic job.

Thank you. Just keep that orbiting base ready for us up there now.

Will do.

Columbia, Houston. LOS 103 27, AOS 104 13. Over.

Thank you.

Tranquility Base, Houston. All your consumables are solid. You're looking good in every respect. We copy the DPS are venting. Everything is copasetic. Over.

Thank you, Houston.

Houston, the guys that said that we wouldn't be able to tell precisely where we are are the winners today. We were a little busy worrying about program alarms and things like that in the part of the descent where we would normally be picking out our landing spot; and aside from a good look at several of the craters we came over in the final descent, I haven't been able to pick out the things on the horizon as a reference as yet.

Roger, Tranquility. No sweat. We'll figure out—We'll figure it out. Over.

You might be interested to know that I don't think we notice any difficulty at all in adapting to one sixth g. It seems immediately natural to move in this environment.

Roger, Tranquility. We copy. Over.

The area out the left hand window is a relatively level plain cratered with a fairly large number of craters of the 5 to 50 foot variety, and some ridges—small, 20, 30 feet high, I would guess, and literally thousands of little 1 and 2 foot craters around the area. We see some angular blocks out several hundred feet in front of us that are probably 2 feet in size and have angular edges. There is a hill in view, just about on the ground track ahead of us. Difficult to estimate, but might be a half a mile or a mile.

Roger, Tranquility. We copy. Over.

Sounds like it looks a lot better than it did yesterday —

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— at that very low Sun angle. It looked rough as a cob then.

It really was rough, Mike. Over the targeted landing area, it was extremely rough, cratered, and large numbers of rocks that were probably some, many larger than 5 or 10 feet in size.

When in doubt, land long.

So we did.

Tranquility, Houston. After you get through this P57, we'd like an E memory dump. Over.

Roger. After this first P57, you want an E memory dump.

That's affirmative.

Columbia, Houston. We have a P22 update for you, if you're ready to copy. Over.

At your service, sir.

Roger, Mike. T1, 104 32 18; T2, 104 37 28. And that is 4 miles south. This is based on a targeted landing site. Over.

Okay. Roger. Understand based on a targeted landing site; T1, 104 32 18; T2, 104 37 28, and 4 miles south.

Roger.

Do you have any idea whether they landed left or right of center line? Just a little bit long, is that all we know?

Apparently that's about all we can tell. Over.

Okay. Thank you.

Tranquility, Houston —

And, Houston, our mission timer is now reading 902 34 47 and static.

Roger. Copy your mission timer's now static. It—Say again the time?

902 34 47.

Roger. Copy, Tranquility. That gravity align looked good to us. We see you recycling.

Well, no. I was trying to get time, 16 65 out, and somehow it proceeded on to the 622 before I could do a VERB 32 ENTER. I want to log a time here, and then I'd like to know whether you want me to proceed on the torquing angles or to go back and reenter again before torquing. Over.

Roger, Buzz. Stand by.

Tranquility, Houston. We'd like you to recall P57 and run through the gravity align one more time. Over.

Roger. I concur with that.

Roger, Tranquility. For the mission timer, two suggestions. Set the circuit breaker, panel 11; also reset and attempt to start. That nine in the first digit might have something to do with it. Over.

Okay. We've tried both of those. If the circuit breaker is in when I reset the—put it in RESET, I get 902 04 40. When I release it now, I get 902 04 49. I'm going to cycle the circuit breaker.