Spacelog Apollo 11

Roger, Columbia. You're sounding much better now.

Columbia, Houston. Request P00 in ACCEPT, and we'll uplink another state vector. Over.

Roger. Going P00 in ACCEPT.

Columbia, Houston. Suggest you put BATT A on your BATT relay bus. Over.

Okay.

Columbia, Houston. We're through with your computer. You can go to BLOCK.

Roger. BLOCK.

Tranquility Base, Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Houston. Tranquility Base.

Tranquility Base, Houston. We've reviewed the checklist, and about the only change in order to advance the EVA that we've found is that you'll want to delay your lithium hydroxide change until after the EVA rather than before. Over.

Roger. We'd just as soon make a change and jettison the old one. Over.

Tranquility Base, Houston. We would like to delay that LOIO—LiOH change until after the EVA. There is a possibility you could jettison the canister when you jettison your PLSS. Over.

All right. We'll plan it that way. Over.

Roger, Tranquility.

Columbia, Houston. Over.

Houston, Columbia.

Columbia, Houston. We show your EVAP OUT temperature running low. Request you go to manual temperature control and bring it up. You can check the procedures in ECS MAL 17. Over.

Roger, Houston.

Columbia, Houston. I have a P22 update for you.

Columbia. Go ahead.

Columbia, Houston. Your P22 AUTO—AUTO optics landmark ID on LM. T1, 106 plus 30 plus 31; T2, 106 plus 35 plus 41, 2 nautical miles south. Your TCA, 106 plus 37 plus 16. Shaft angle 357.9 and trunnion angle 44.3. Over.

Roger. Thank you.

Columbia, Houston. We have your LOS in 3 minutes. AOS will be 106 plus 11. Over.

Houston, Tranquility. Over.

Tranquility, Houston. Go ahead.

Roger. This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way. Over.

That's about ready to fall off.

Tranquility Base, Houston. We'd like some estimate of how far along you are with your eating and when you may be ready to start you EVA PREP. Over.

I think that we'll be ready to start EVA PREP in about a half an hour or so.

Houston, Columbia. How do you read?

Columbia, Columbia. This is Houston.

Houston, this is Tranquility Base. We are beginning our EVA PREP.

Tranquility Base, this is Houston, Roger. Copy. You're beginning EVA PREP. Break. Break. Columbia, Columbia, this is Houston. Reading you loud and clear. Over.

You're loud and clear. The waste water dump is down to 10 percent. I have a question on the P22. Do you want me to do another P22, or is all that information just for my own use in tracking the LM for photographic purposes?

Columbia, this is Houston. We request that you perform another P22. We'd like you to let the AUTO optics take care of the tracking and devote your energies to trying to pick out the LM on the lunar surface. If you can find the LM, of course. We're looking for marks on it; but tracking of geographical features doesn't do us all that much good. Over.

Okay. Fine. I'll do it. And on the ECS system, the—Whatever the problem was, it seems to have gone away without any changing of J52 sensors or anything like that. My glycol evaporator outlet TEMP is up above 50 now, and it's quite comfortable in the cockpit; so we'll talk more about that one later.

Roger, Columbia. Did you shift into manual control, or did the problem resolve itself under AUTO control? Over.

The problem went away under AUTO.

Roger. That's the best type. Out.

I did cycle out of AUTO into—I did cycle out of AUTO into MANUAL, back into AUTO.

Tranquility Base, Tranquility Base, this is Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Houston.

Tranquility, this is Houston. We need a second set of PRD readings so that we may establish a rate. Over.

You got a crowd there in MCC?

Roger. You're last, Columbia.

Roger. I expect you probably have about nine CAP COMMS and 11 Flight Directors with no place to plug in.

Roger. Out.

That ratio might even be reversed.

Glycol evaporator outlet temperature is 50 degrees and the comfort in here is just fine.

Roger. We copy 50 degrees on the glycol, and comfort index fine.

If you'll excuse me a minute, I'm going to have a cup of coffee.

Roger.

Apollo—Columbia, this is Houston. Your map coordinates are Papa decimal 2 and 6 decimal 3 on the LAM 2 chart. Over.

Columbia, this is Houston. Did you copy the coordinates for the LM? Over.

Houston, Columbia on the high gain.

Columbia, this is Houston reading you loud and clear. Over.

Read you loud and clear, Bruce.

Roger, Mike. I have the coordinates —

What's new?

Well, what's new is I think we have some more coordinates for you on the LM location. Over.

Ready to copy.

Roger, Mike. Papa 0.2 and 6.3 on your LAM 2 chart. Over.

Roger. Papa 0.2 and who 0.3?

6.3, I say again, 6.3.

Thank you. Papa 0.2 and 6.3. I'll try them.

Roger.

Okay. What you are saying is, if you look at the cat's paw, then that's just about, oh—his middle finger, a little bit—one to two o'clock from his middle finger. Is that right?

Roger. About one to two o'clock from the middle finger if you are using 12 o'clock being to the west. Over.

That must be the way the cat's faced. Okay. I'm with you.

Okay. And I got LOS and AOS times for you.

Go ahead.

Go ahead, Houston.

Roger. Your LOS at 107 plus 23 plus 03. AOS at 108 plus 09 plus 06. The next pass for COAS tracking: your time of closest approach is 108 35 28. That's 3 miles south of track. Over.

I understand all that, but with this new information would you like me to try P22 and look for him in a different spot?

Stand by a minute, please.

Okay. Because I was looking in the wrong place last time. AUTO optics was not pointing me at the coordinates you gave me.

Roger.

Columbia, this is Houston. Over.

Go ahead.

On your next pass, Columbia, rather than performing a P22 as such, we would like you to look in the vicinity of the coordinates that we gave you, which is our best analysis based on map physics and the trajectory, and we also have another set of coordinates that we would like you to search in the vicinity of. This last one being based on all interpretation of the geological features that were seen by the crew on their way down. The coordinates of this second site are Mike 0.7 and 8.0. I say again, Mike 0.7 and 8.0. I say again, Mike 0.7 and 8.0. Over.

Roger. Copy. Mike 0.7 and 8.0. The only thing is, my best tool for looking is the sextant and if I'm going to crank the sextant up, I might as well let P22 go at the same time, or don't you think so?

Roger. If you want to go that way, crank it up and then you can drive it around and look where you want. Over.

Okay.

And if you can find the LM, then by all means, track it or make a note of where it was and we can track it on the next REV. If you are ready, we have a REFSMMAT update that we can pass up to you at this time, if you will give us P00 in ACCEPT. Over.

Okay. P00 in ACCEPT you got. And this is an updated landing site RESFMMAT. We still believe that a plane change is not required. Is that affirmative?

That's affirmative, Columbia.

Columbia, this is Houston. We are through with the uplink. It's your computer.

Houston, Columbia.