Spacelog Apollo 11

Houston, Columbia. My rendezvous radar transponder is operating.

Spacecraft calling Houston? Say again.

This is Columbia saying the rendezvous radar transponder is operating.

Roger. Copy, Columbia.

Tranquility, Houston. Request rendezvous radar breakers in about now.

Columbia, Houston. Request OMNI D—OMNI Delta.

Tranquility Base, Houston. Request you go ahead and start the warmup on the rendezvous radar.

Roger.

Houston, you copying NOUN 93?

Tranquility, affirmative. Go.

Roger. We're going to a torque.

Houston. Roger.

Tranquility Base, Houston. Columbia will be overhead at 122 plus 22 plus 51. His LOS will be 29 35. Over.

Houston, we'd like to check this on the tape meter against the AGS. We'll go back to altitude—altitude rates as soon as the rate starts to build up. Over.

Tranquility, Houston. Roger.

On second thought, since that will peg the range rate, I guess maybe we'd better not do that. And for this range that the AGS are showing now, 425 miles with a signal strength of 2.2. It looks like we ought to proceed on this. Over.

Roger. Stand by one. Tranquility, affirmative. Proceed.

Are you getting the information on the downlink now?

Tranquility, affirmative, and we're saving it. We've got 4 so far, and it's looking good.

Okay. What do you people think about calling up a VERB 83?

Tranquility, Houston. Stand by on that now. We're getting the data now. We're checking on the VERB 83.

And we expect that we may lose lock when it passes overhead because of the MAX rate that the radar has.

Tranquility, Houston. Negative on VERB 83.

Understand.

We just lost lock.

Tranquility, Houston. Go.

They've just lost lock, Ron.

Roger. We had about 20 some points before you did that. And for your information, the reason the AGS is a little different there—The reason the AGS is a little different is because the K factor is a little bit wrong.

Yes. It sure is.

119 59 5992. Over.

Tranquility, Houston. Readback correct.

Columbia, Houston —

Houston, Tranquility. I see what you mean now about the K factor.

Roger.

This is Columbia. Go ahead. And I'd like to know about this P52 coming up. Is that the one I just completed or do you want a pair of them back to back?

Columbia, Houston. You do not need to do another P52 unless you want to. Break. And also, Columbia, when you get a chance, request BATT C and the PYRO readouts. Over.

BATT C says 37 volts even. PYRO A, 37. PYRO B, 37.

Columbia, Houston. Roger. We copy. Thank you.

BATT bus B is 37. BATT bus A is 36, or I'd think the gauge is stuck.

Roger. And you're looking good to us—to us, Columbia.

Yes sir. Keep it that way.

Columbia is coming up on a VERB 45 ENTER to reset the surface flag.

Columbia, Houston. Negative. Stand by on the VERB 45.

Roger that.

And a crew status report from Columbia. I figure I got about 5 hours' good sleep, although you guys probably know better than I do.

Columbia. Roger. We copy.

Columbia, Houston. We've got a couple more vectors to send up to you. They'll be coming up shortly and then you can do the VERB 45 after you get those in. Over.

Okay. That's fine. Just wanted to make sure that we're both in SYNC on the order.

Roger.

Columbia and Tranquility Base, this is Houston. In case you haven't noticed, the MSFN relay is not activated, so I can go ahead and relay anything if you want to talk directly.

Columbia. Roger.

Houston, Tranquility. Be advised we've got —

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Coming … on schedule — showing red right now. We just put a VERB 77 in. I believe that there's … let me check here.

Tranquility Base, Houston. We've got a lot of static down here. Could you say again?

Roger. We have four out of eight circuit breaker talkbacks indicating red. We still have the circuit breakers out as of right now. I believe at this moment we have just entered VERB 77 on tape 3052 and are ready to proceed with the hot fire. Is it normal to have these four red flags? Over.

Tranquility Base, Houston. We think that's okay. Go ahead and reset them and press on with the hot fire. Over.

Roger. They are reset.

Columbia, Columbia, Houston. Request P00 and ACCEPT, and we'll send some state vectors up to you.

Houston, Tranquility. I used Capella in the last sighting, and it's a good ways near the edge. A good ways away from the center of detent 4. I'm wondering if it would pay any to use Alpheratz, star number 1. It might be a little closer. However, it would delay things a little, since I'd have to designate the radar out of the way. Over.

Tranquility. Roger. We copy. Stand by 1. And, break, break, Columbia. We're having a little trouble getting the stuff in there. Request high gain, pitch minus 20, yaw plus 150. Over.

And, Tranquility, Houston. We'd prefer to save the time; press on with Capella. Over.

Roger.

And, Tranquility, Houston. The RCS check looked mighty fine to us.

It looks good up here.

Columbia, Columbia, Houston. Over.

Columbia, Houston. Over.

Columbia, Houston in the blind—high gain. Pitch minus 20, yaw plus 150.

Houston, Tranquility. Could you give me the fixed portion of the ascent PAD so I can load it in for a P57? Over.

Tranquility. Roger. Stand by one. We want to wait on that P57 until about TIG minus 50 minutes. Over.

Roger.

Columbia, Columbia, Houston. Over.

Columbia, Columbia, Houston. Over.

Houston, Tranquility. It turns out that detent 4 isn't usable anyway with the yaw that we have, because the Earth appears in both detent 2 and detent 3.

Tranquility Base, Houston. Roger.

Columbia, Houston. Over.