Spacelog Apollo 11

Glad to hear it.

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.

Tranquility Base, this is Houston. Over.

Roger. Go ahead, Houston.

Roger, Tranquility. We're coming up in about 6 minutes on GET of 108. If you'd like to start your event timer, we can give you a hack at 108 00. Over.

Houston, Tranquility. We're ready to start with the electrical checkout. We're going to S band modulate FM. Over.

Roger. Tranquility, this is Houston. We copy. Go ahead with the FM. And we missed the mark at 108. Do you want us to try and give you one at 108 05? Over.

I think we've got the timer going. We've got 1 minute and 30 seconds.

MARK.

Roger. We copy, and you're in SYNC with us.

It's increase.

T/R.

In.

Help you on that?

Feed it, or disconnect, or what?

Say again.

Connect PLSS electrical umbilical to PGA.

Let me *** up tight *** have to *** up straight *** up. Got her about ***

That's got it.

*** Right.

Fastest VOX in the west.

Mark. All right. Okay.

Aren't they?

Well, we've got antennas down and *** not real good, is it? Okay. Yours is up. We'll put my antenna up.

Okay.

Okay.

How do you read now?

Okay.

Okay. I think that's going to be better.

You read me all right now?

Yes.

Okay. That sounds pretty good.

I guess it's a combination of the volume and the antenna. May have been just the volume that was way up too high. Why don't you try stowing it again; see if that makes any difference.

Okay.

All right. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. That—That sounds pretty good.

… Okay?