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05 02 11 43
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston, Columbia. My rendezvous radar transponder is operating.
05 02 11 52
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Spacecraft calling Houston? Say again.
05 02 11 57
Michael Collins (CMP): This is Columbia saying the rendezvous radar transponder is operating.
05 02 12 02
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. Copy, Columbia.
05 02 13 56
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility, Houston. Request rendezvous radar breakers in about now.
05 02 14 33
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston. Request OMNI D—OMNI Delta.
05 02 15 47
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility Base, Houston. Request you go ahead and start the warmup on the rendezvous radar.
05 02 15 56
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger.
05 02 16 58
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Houston, you copying NOUN 93?
05 02 17 01
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility, affirmative. Go.
05 02 17 07
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger. We're going to a torque.
05 02 17 10
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Houston. Roger.
05 02 18 00
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility Base, Houston. Columbia will be overhead at 122 plus 22 plus 51. His LOS will be 29 35. Over.
05 02 18 21
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger.
05 02 20 35
Neil Armstrong (CDR): 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.
05 02 20 50
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility, Houston. Roger.
05 02 21 03
Neil Armstrong (CDR): 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.
05 02 21 31
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. Stand by one. Tranquility, affirmative. Proceed.
05 02 21 56
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Are you getting the information on the downlink now?
05 02 22 04
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility, affirmative, and we're saving it. We've got 4 so far, and it's looking good.
05 02 22 18
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay. What do you people think about calling up a VERB 83?
05 02 22 41
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility, Houston. Stand by on that now. We're getting the data now. We're checking on the VERB 83.
05 02 22 50
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): And we expect that we may lose lock when it passes overhead because of the MAX rate that the radar has.
05 02 23 05
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility, Houston. Negative on VERB 83.
05 02 23 11
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Understand.
05 02 24 09
Neil Armstrong (CDR): We just lost lock.
05 02 24 12
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility, Houston. Go.
05 02 24 23
Michael Collins (CMP): They've just lost lock, Ron.
05 02 24 25
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): 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.
05 02 24 40
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Has he already gone? Over. Okay. Okay. Has he already gone overhead, or do you want us to try and get in lock on again?
05 02 24 51
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston, Columbia. You got NOUN 49. Five good marks.
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05 02 24 57
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility, affirmative. Try to lock on again, and you'll lose him at about 29 minutes and 35 seconds.
05 02 25 09
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. Do you have a real quick procedure how to do that?
05 02 25 21
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston. Say again about your NOUN 49.
05 02 25 28
Michael Collins (CMP): I say I got five good marks. You got NOUN 49. When you get everything you need off the downlink, let me know.
05 02 25 36
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston. Stand by one.
05 02 25 56
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Ron, did you say on the 526 alarm to proceed or do a VERB 32?
05 02 26 03
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. It's just that radar thinks the range is greater than 400 miles now.
05 02 26 13
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility Base, Houston. Recommend you terminate P22. Over.
05 02 26 22
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger. Will do.
05 02 26 24
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): And, Columbia, Houston. Same for you. You can terminate P22.
05 02 26 34
Michael Collins (CMP): I have. I'm running fast.
05 02 26 36
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 02 27 14
Michael Collins (CMP): I'm staying in P22 here a second just to record the NOUN 89 and then over VERB 34.
05 02 27 21
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston. Roger. We copy, and that's good.
05 02 27 57
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility, Houston.
05 02 28 07
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. Go ahead.
05 02 28 09
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. Request S BAND FUNCTION switch to RANGE. We're going to do some ranging on you. Also, I have an updated AGS K factor when you are ready to copy. Over.
05 02 28 24
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger. Go ahead with the K factor.
05 02 28 27
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. 119 plus 59 plus 59.92. Over.
05 02 28 44
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger. A little closer this time.
05 02 28 46
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Yes. It sure is.
05 02 28 47
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 119 59 5992. Over.
05 02 28 52
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility, Houston. Readback correct.
05 02 30 10
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston —
05 02 30 11
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Houston, Tranquility. I see what you mean now about the K factor.
05 02 30 15
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 02 30 23
Michael Collins (CMP): 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?
05 02 30 36
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): 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.
05 02 31 08
Michael Collins (CMP): BATT C says 37 volts even. PYRO A, 37. PYRO B, 37.
05 02 31 20
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston. Roger. We copy. Thank you.
05 02 31 28
Michael Collins (CMP): BATT bus B is 37. BATT bus A is 36, or I'd think the gauge is stuck.
05 02 31 35
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. And you're looking good to us—to us, Columbia.
05 02 31 43
Michael Collins (CMP): Yes sir. Keep it that way.
05 02 32 06
Michael Collins (CMP): Columbia is coming up on a VERB 45 ENTER to reset the surface flag.
05 02 32 15
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston. Negative. Stand by on the VERB 45.
05 02 32 22
Michael Collins (CMP): Roger that.
05 02 32 43
Michael Collins (CMP): 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.
05 02 32 52
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia. Roger. We copy.
05 02 33 31
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): 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.
05 02 33 44
Michael Collins (CMP): Okay. That's fine. Just wanted to make sure that we're both in SYNC on the order.
05 02 33 54
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 02 35 24
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): 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.
05 02 35 44
Michael Collins (CMP): Columbia. Roger.
05 02 35 54
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Houston, Tranquility. Be advised we've got —
05 02 35 57
Michael Collins (CMP): …
05 02 36 01
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Coming … on schedule — showing red right now. We just put a VERB 77 in. I believe that there's … let me check here.
05 02 36 20
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility Base, Houston. We've got a lot of static down here. Could you say again?
05 02 36 31
Neil Armstrong (CDR): 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.
05 02 37 09
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility Base, Houston. We think that's okay. Go ahead and reset them and press on with the hot fire. Over.
05 02 37 28
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. They are reset.
05 02 37 33
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Columbia, Houston. Request P00 and ACCEPT, and we'll send some state vectors up to you.
05 02 37 44
Michael Collins (CMP): Here we going P00 and ACCEPT.
05 02 41 58
Neil Armstrong (CDR): 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.
05 02 42 36
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): 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.
05 02 43 06
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): And, Tranquility, Houston. We'd prefer to save the time; press on with Capella. Over.
05 02 43 19
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger.
05 02 43 30
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): And, Tranquility, Houston. The RCS check looked mighty fine to us.
05 02 43 37
Neil Armstrong (CDR): It looks good up here.
05 02 43 48
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Columbia, Houston. Over.
05 02 44 22
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston. Over.
05 02 44 57
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston in the blind—high gain. Pitch minus 20, yaw plus 150.
05 02 45 52
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Houston, Tranquility. Could you give me the fixed portion of the ascent PAD so I can load it in for a P57? Over.
05 02 46 02
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility. Roger. Stand by one. We want to wait on that P57 until about TIG minus 50 minutes. Over.
05 02 46 19
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger.
05 02 47 03
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Columbia, Houston. Over.
05 02 48 30
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Columbia, Houston. Over.
05 02 50 24
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 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.
05 02 50 39
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility Base, Houston. Roger.
05 02 50 54
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston. Over.
05 02 51 22
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility, Houston. I have your LM ascent and CSI data PAD's when you are ready to copy.
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05 02 51 33
Neil Armstrong (CDR): We're ready to copy.
05 02 51 36
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. LM ascent PAD: TIG 124 22 00 00 00 NOUN 76 55349 00322, plus 0017; DEDA 47, plus 37104, minus 70470, plus 58604, plus 56936. Your LM weight 10837. Your T14 126, plus 20, plus 12. Over.
05 02 53 18
Neil Armstrong (CDR): What figure is the crossrange and NOUN 76?
05 02 53 26
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. Your crossrange for NOUN 76—By the way, we may update this later, but now it is plus 0017. Over.
05 02 53 47
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger. Readback follows. TIG 124 22 0000 55349 00322, plus 0017, plus 37104, minus 70470, plus 58604, plus 56936. LM weight 10837. T14, 126 20 12. Go.
05 02 54 30
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility, Houston. Roger. Your readback correct. Now I have your CSI PAD.
05 02 54 50
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Going to CSI PAD.
05 02 54 52
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. CSI PAD. TIG of CSI 125 19 3470; TIG of TPI 126 57 0000; NOUN 81, 0532 plus 0000; FDAI NA; DEDA 373 03196; DEDA 275 04170; NOUN 86 plus 0532, plus 0000, plus 0012. Tranquility readback.
05 02 56 21
Neil Armstrong (CDR): CSI Apollo PAD follows. TIG 125 19 3470; TIG of TPI 126 57 0000; NOUN 81, 0532, plus all zeroes, 373 03196 275 04170; NOUN 86 plus 0532, plus 0000, plus 0012. Go.
05 02 57 10
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility Base, Houston. Your readback is correct. And, Tranquility, no need for any GYRO compensation. It's GO.
05 02 57 26
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. Understand.
05 02 57 34
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston. Over.
05 02 57 48
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston in the blind. Request high gain. Pitch minus 30, yaw plus 170. Over.
05 02 58 35
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston, Columbia on the high gain. Over.
05 02 58 38
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger, Columbia. We still need to finish your uplink there, and then I have your CSI and TPI times and also the lift off.
05 02 58 53
Michael Collins (CMP): Go ahead. Ready to copy.
05 02 58 57
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. LM ascent lift off time: 124 22 0000. Your CSI TIG, say again CSI TIG: 125 19 3470. Your TIG of TPI: 126 57 0000. And the LM's NOUN 81 values for CSI: 0532—that's 53.2 for DELTA VX, DELTA VY all zeros. Columbia, Houston. Over.
05 03 00 12
Michael Collins (CMP): Roger. I readback lift off TIG 124 22 even, CSI 125 19 3470, TPI 126 57 even, the LM's NOUN 81 for CSI 53.2 DELTA VX. Over.
05 03 00 35
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston. Roger. Your readback correct.
05 03 01 00
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston. We're coming up with your second load now.
05 03 01 12
Michael Collins (CMP): Roger that.
05 03 01 49
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston. The computer is yours, and you can do your VERB 45 ENTER now.
05 03 01 58
Michael Collins (CMP): Roger. Go into BLOCK and VERB 45 ENTER.
05 03 02 02
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 03 02 11
Michael Collins (CMP): How's the Black Team today? All primed and raring to go?
05 03 02 14
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): You bet you there, Mike.
05 03 02 20
Michael Collins (CMP): Good signal.
05 03 05 43
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston. About 3 minutes to LOS, and I have your consumables update.
05 03 05 52
Michael Collins (CMP): Ready to copy.
05 03 05 53
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. At 123 plus 00, RCS total minus 7 percent, Alfa minus 12 percent, Bravo plus 4.5, Charlie minus 7, Delta minus 6.5. Your hydrogen total minus 1.4 pounds, oxygen—oxygen plus 1.7. Over.
05 03 06 40
Michael Collins (CMP): Whoever figured those hydrogens and oxygens out a couple of days ago must have known what he was doing.
05 03 06 46
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Okay. I think I read that oxygen—it's a plus 17 pounds.
05 03 06 54
Michael Collins (CMP): Roger. Still close.
05 03 06 56
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 03 07 52
Jim Lovell: Eagle and Columbia, this is the backup crew. Our congratulations for yesterday's performance, and our prayers are with you for the rendezvous. Over.
05 03 08 04
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Thank you, Jim.
05 03 08 06
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Thank you, Jim.
05 03 08 10
Michael Collins (CMP): Glad to have all you big room full of people looking over our shoulder.
05 03 08 15
Neil Armstrong (CDR): We had a lot of help down there, Jim.
05 03 10 32
Neil Armstrong (CDR): And, Houston, Tranquility Base is going to give you a few comments with regard to the geology question of last night. We are landed in a relatively smooth crater field of elongate secondary—circular secondary craters, most of which have rims irrespective of their—raised rims irrespective of their size. That's not universally true. There are—There are a few of the smaller craters around which do not have a discernible rim. The ground mass throughout the area is a very fine sand to a silt. I'd say the thing that would be most like it on Earth is powdered graphite. Immersed in this ground mass are a wide variety of rock shapes, sizes, textures, rounded and angular, many with varying consistencies. As I said, I've seen plain—what looked to be plain basalt and vesicular basalt. Others with no crystals, some with small white phenocrysts, maybe one to less than 5 percent. And the bould—we are in a boulder field where the boulders range generally up to 2 feet with a few larger than that. Now, some of the boulders are lying on top of the surface, some are partially exposed, and some are just barely exposed. And in our traverse around on the surface and particularly working with the scoop, we've run into boulders below the surface—it was probably buried under several inches of the ground mass.
05 03 12 55
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility, Houston. Roger. Very fine description.
05 03 13 05
Neil Armstrong (CDR): I suspect this boulder field may have some of its origin with this large sharp edged rocky rim crater that we passed over at final descent. Now yesterday I said that was about the size of a football field, and I have to admit it was a little—little hard to measure coming in. But I thought that it might just fit in the Astrodome as we came by it. And the rocks in the vicinity of the—of this rocky rim crater are much larger than these in this area. Some are 10 feet or so and perhaps bigger, and they are very thickly populated out to about one crater diameter beyond the crater rim. Beyond that, there is some diminishing, and even out in this area the blocks seem to run out in rows with irregular patterns, and then there are paths between them where there are considerably less surface evidence of hard rocks. Over.
05 03 14 16
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility Base, Houston. We copy. Thank you very much.
05 03 14 32
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): And, Tranquility Base, we're through with the ranging. You can take your S band function switch to OFF RESET.
05 03 14 42
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger.
05 03 14 45
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): And, Tranquility, I have a LM consumables update for you.
05 03 14 53
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger. Ready to copy.
05 03 14 55
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Okay. At 123 plus 00, RCS Alfa 78—78 percent PQMD, Bravo is 76 percent PQMD, descent O₂ is 62 percent—62 percent. Descent ampere hours are 590, 590 remaining, ascent ampere hours are 574, 574 remaining. Over.
05 03 15 41
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger. Copy. Sounds very good. Thank you.

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